My Life

On Thursday January twenty-nine 2015 I had woke up from my sleep at six o'clock in the morning and I had stood up from my bed to sit down in my wheelchair then I had wheeled to my bath room to get ready to take a very nice warm shower. After my nice warm shower I had got all dress in my bed room I put on my long dark blue paints and my white tee shirt and my white sock, my Right leg brace and my shoes too. So I had sat back in my black leather chair to watch my television for a little while. At seven o'clock that mourning I had wheeled out of my bed room and I had wheeled across the very wide dining room and then I had wheeled into the kitchen and I had a bowl of cereal to eat and a glass of orange juice to drink and a glass of coffee to drink too.  So I had took my empty bowl and my empty glasses and so I had put them in the dish washing machine so I had wheeled back to my bed room to watch my television for a hour or two and I would see a you tube video on my internet too.

On Tuesday February twentieth 2015 I had got up from my bed at six o'clock in the morning and I had sat in my wheelchair so I could wheel in to my bath room so that I could talk a nice warm shower..Then I had got my long dark blue paints on and my red and white t-shirt on and my white socks and my white right leg brace and I had put on my shoes too. Later I had wheeled out and into the kitchen to ask for a egg and cheese omelet too eat and I had a cup of orange juice and a cup of hot tea to drink too then I had wheeled back to my bed room to watch my television for a while. At ten thirty that morning I then had to wheel into the great big pink room with the three other residents the were in the great big pink room already and we had to wait for a lady named Donna from Saint Therese's  church.  A minute later she had came over to the McLaughlin house to say some prayers with us and we had got prayers books to sing some spiritual songs. Then a big very beautiful blond lady had came over to my house with a big cup of coffee in her hand so I wanted to go over to the dunking donuts restaurant to drink the coffee there. So I had wheeled to my bed room to get my coat on and then I had went outside with her and I had got on my dark red four wheel motor scooter then I had drove to dunking donuts restaurant with the big tall beautiful lady named Heather Fisher walking on the right side of me and we talked a little while going to dunking donuts restaurant. Inside the dunking donuts restaurant I had drove to a table on my dark red four wheel motor scooter and then Heather gave me my coffee then she had walked up to the counter to order a nice cup of hot tea and the she had sat at the same table with me inside the dunking donuts restaurant. While we we sitting at a table in the dunking donuts restaurant we were talking while we were drinking me my coffee and her her tea.. Me and Heather talk about camp Jabberwocky on the summer of 2014 and how we can not wait to go back to camp Jabberwocky I told Heather that every day at one in the after noon my counselor named Rosie would push me in my wheelchair up to the art cabin at camp while she took a little rest at the cabin I would decide to paint every day during ress period  and I had got better and better at painting too. When rest period were over different counselled would go up to the art cabin just to see my painting then when I were all done painting for the day I would go out some where were my counselor and all of the campers and counselors too at camp Jabberwocky that is down in Martha Vine yard.When I had went back to my house with my mother I had left about five or six of my paintings at camp Jabberwocky and I even had sold my painting to some female counselled  even to the the one that were my counselor Rosie and they had gave me twenty dollars too.. So that Tuesday after noon Heather had said to me at the dunking donuts restaurant George will you paint me a picture and I had said ok later she had walk me back to my house while I had drove my great big dark red four wheel motor scooter right next to her. So we hugged to say good bye and she had got in her car and drove to her baby sitting job the day and I had drove my dark red four wheel motor scooter in side the garage to transfer to my wheelchair and then I wheeled in my house. It was about six thirty at night and then I had wheeled into the kitchen to eat my dinner that was on the kitchen table and after I had put my empty plate and my empty glasses in the dish washing machine I had wheeled to my bed room to watch my television for a little while. So it was getting darker and dark out the window until it was eleven o'clock at night and then I went to bed.

             State Wide head-injury program 600 Washington street Boston Massachusetts 02111
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                                   MRC
the Massachusetts Rehabilitation  Commission does not discriminate on the base of race, color, nationally, origin ,  gender, age, handicap, sexual orientation  Any person that have questions or concerns about agency practices may contact  Mary Conelly J.D directors of Diversity/ADA
               Coordinator Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission 600 Washington Boston MA O2111                                   
                                    S TATEWIDE
                                    
                                   HEAD INJURY


                                        Program

                      Available SHIP services Regardless of Eligibility



. Informational and referral
. Social and recreation programs
. General consultation for schools
. Agencies and programs
. General guidance about local resources SHIP
. Outreach to homeless people
.with brain-injury ( Eastern Mass)
. Outreach to veterans

                                            Brain-injury Association of
                                            Massachusetts (BIA-MA)

SHIP was created by the grass roots efforts of (BIA-MA) members. (BIA-MA)  information and resources support groups for  survives and family members. speaker's bureau and educational and prevention workshops and

 Brain-injury Association of Massachusetts
                     thirty Lyman Street
                      Westboro MA 01581
                       phone (508) 475-0032
                         (800) 242-0050'
                          www.biama.org
                         email infi@biama.org

                                                                  Eligibility

You may be eligible to join SHIP
.  [f you are  resident of Massachusetts regardless of age
. you have a document  of externally cause of traumatic brain-injury  
. You have a related issue with cognitive physics and/or behavioral  area.
. You are able to participate  in community bas services.

How To Apply for SHIP services  Anyone can contact SHIP by phone or e-mail  and request a Application
After an application is received SHIP determines eligibility by reviewing all available records related to the Individual  brain-injury. Gathering the records take time if you already have records of the initial injury it will help if you send us copies but this is not all required  You will get a letter telling you whether you are eligible.   SHIP staff can descuss the process with you and aanswer your question about services and can help you fill out the applications.

Ship provides a broad range of community base services that support individuals with traumatic brain injury and their families. SHIP is a part of the community services Division at the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission a state agency.

                        What is an externally caused traumatic brain injury.

An externally caused traumatic brain injury is do to a blow or a jolt to the head from an external physical force . Brain function can be disrupted by a car crash or a serious fall, gun shots, or assaults soldiers may sustain a traumatic brain injury from an explosion or a shock wave. These kinds of event may result in significant cognitive behavioral or social challenges. Some examples of brain injury that is not externally caused and unfortunately would not meet SHIP criteria are strokes, lack of oxygen and brain tumors.

                                             Living with a traumatic brain injury
                                     
Every year 51,000 Massachusetts residents sustains a Traumatic Brain injury most often in automobile crashes and falls. It can happen to any body and no two brain injuries are a like. If you or loved ones notice issues with a lost of memory, a loss of concentration, finding the right words to say, or controlling your temper then you may have a traumatic brain injury and benefit from ships services.

Every twenty-two seconds one person in the United states sustain a head-injury. An estimated 5.3 Americans a little more then 2 percent of the population lives with a disability resulting from a brain-injury. Meny of the survivors are adolescents or young adults that have extensive residential  deficits often resulting in a loss in social networks and friendships. Each year in Massachusetts over 32,000 people receive emergency room treatment for traumatic brain injury. Annually over 500 die more then 50,000 people die every year as a result of traumatic brain injury.About 5.3 million Americans a little more then 2 percent of the population lives with a disability resulting from a brain injury. SOBI means (Survivors of brain injuries) was started in March 2004 by voluntary groups of multidisciplinary clinician  to meet the needs of young adults with brain injuries.it is a community group that meets monthly  to provide social and recreational activities in a supportive  environment

                              SHIP services for Eligible Applicants

. Service coordination
, Regional services center
, Residential services
. Case management
. individual skills train and support
. Companion services
. Consultation for families
Detailed consultation  for schools
. agencies and programs
.Substance abuse servces
Detailed consultation for schools
agencies and programs
Substance abuse services
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