Showing posts with label traumatic brain injury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traumatic brain injury. Show all posts

May 28, 2008

Drunk Driving Crash Changes Life in an Instant

What would you do, if a drunk driving crash injured your brain, and:
  • your skull broke into 24 pieces?
  • doctors predicted you’d remain in a vegetative state if you survived?
  • you had to relearn to swallow, talk, see, balance, think, walk, tie your shoes, etc.?
  • you had three surgeries to stop seeing double, then one and a half years of vision therapy?
  • you could never drive again?
  • your short-term memory continued to be frustratingly compromised?
  • you were still paying off more than a million dollars in medical bills, nine years after your crash and injuries (and after your insurance paid)?

Read Joan Miller's remarkable story of survival after a drunk driving crash left her with severe traumatic brain injury.