Survivor Story of the Month: Interview With Ebony Adams Question: When did you acquire your brain injury? Answer: December 27th, 2007. Question: What were some of your initial obstacles? Answer: Couldn’t walk or talk. Nerve damage to hands. Couldn’t cook for my kids, change my clothes and go back to work. Question: What…
Survivor Story of the Month: Interview With John Carley Question: When did you acquire your brain injury? Answer: In 1985. Question: What were some of your initial obstacles? Answer: Learning to walk again. Question: What were the things or people who motivated you? Answer: Socializing at lunch group. Question: How has P.G.…
Survivor Story of the Month: Interview With Brian Long Question: When did you acquire your brain injury? Answer: Over 25 years ago from an automobile accident. Question: What were some of your initial obstacles? Answer: Developed a large limp and hard to walk (Left Leg/Extreme memory loss). Question: What were the things or…
Survivor Story of the Month: Interview With Paul C. John Duray Question: When did you acquire your brain injury? Answer: When I was 19 years old at St. Thomas Seminary in the year 1971. A big basketball player pushed me from behind and I had a concussion initially, and no one checked me out. …
Survivor Story of the Month: Interview With Colin Armour Question: When did you acquire your brain injury? Answer: Approximately in June of 1992. Question: What were some of your initial obstacles? Answer: Waking up from a coma. Question: What were the things or people who motivated you? Answer: My father. Question: How…
Survivor Story of the Month: Interview With Shaun Burns Question: When did you acquire your brain injury? Answer: In 1994, so when I was 22 years old. Question: What were some of your initial obstacles? Answer: Unable to ambulate, speak, or to live independently. Question: What were the things or people who motivated…
Survivor Story of the Month: Jonathan Spencer Question: When did you acquire your brain injury? Answer: I had a car accident in 1978 Question: What were some of your initial obstacles? Answer: At first, I could not walk, speak, or see out of my left eye. After intensive therapy I was able to recover.…
Survivor Story of the Month: Interview With Ebony Adams Interviewer: When did you acquire your brain injury? Ebony: It was because I had a tumor in December 2007 Interviewer: What were some of the obstacles you encountered? Ebony: I had 5 major surgeries at UCONN. I was put in a medically induced coma for…
Dear Readers, My name is Robert Watson III, I suffered a severe ABI in 2009 and was also told that I probably would never be able to walk or be independent. In 2010 I became a survivor in the P.G. Program since that time I have learned to walk, and I presently live alone. I…