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…
When Katie Ellis sustained a severe brain injury over 10 years ago, doctors didn’t think she would live. But they didn’t realize how strong her spirit is. During her time in our Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Program, Katie worked tirelessly to beat the odds, fighting her way out of the hospital and back into the community.…
