Friday, November 06, 2020
Brain injury Survivors are some of the strongest, most amazing, most brave and insightful individuals. They have Survived what should have killed them.
Many brain injuries survivors spend the rest of their lives trying to regain what had been lost because of their injury. They are forced to deal with the physical, psychiatric, psychological, emotional and behavioral effects of the damage to their brain. They are abandon by a society that sees them as fine they are isolated by families, friends, and co-workers and other who have no idea the extent of the challenges that they live with daily.
We must change the way the world perceives brain injury by continuing to raise awareness and by educating others.
Traumatic Brain Injuries
at the base of the skull can cause nerve damage to the nerves that emerge directly from the brain (cranial nerves)
Cranial nerve damage may result in paralysis of facial muscles or losing sensation in the face. Loss or altered sense of smell.
