|  Books  Read: It Dose the Brain Good
This is an easy way to shop for all your gifts online, and support the Brain Injury Association of Illinois. It is fast and easy! Tamara Greenspan Head Injury Collection http://www.tbihelp.org/tamara_greenspan_collection1.htm Tamara Greenspan was sturck by a speeding car at age 16 and lives with TBI. All items in the collection are available for loan.  Bookstore https://www.lrsssl.com/biaa/bookstore.asp
Diana Lund holds a BA in psychology and an MA in mathematics. For seven years she taught college mathematics, and for thirteen years she was a computer science project manager. After mild traumatic brain injury sidelined her career, she began creative writing. She has spoken on the radio, on TV, and at various conferences. A Waking Mind by Diana Lund by Diana Lund  BRAINLASHMaximize Your Recovery from Mild Brain Injury by Gail L. Denton, Ph.D.  The author is a retired psychotherapist, massage therapist, ski patroller, fiber artist, publisher, mountaineer, educator, wife, mother and brain injury survivor. Brainlash offers support, information and insight into the daily challenges and triumphs of living with the consequences of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). This book, written by Gail L. Denton, Ph.D., began as a rollerblading outing and concluded with a life-altering accident. A ruptured spleen and a twisting, jarring fall resulted in brain injury from loss of oxygen (anoxia) as well as closed head trauma. http://www.brainlash.com/  Coping with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Diane Roberts Stoler, EdD & Barbara Albers Hill Sound information and meaningful advice from a practicing psychologist who has herself experienced mild head injury.  I'll Carry the Fork! recovering a life after brain injry by Kara L. Swanson In 1996, a van speeding through a red light ended the she had know. "I wrote this book because the understading of traumatic brain injury is limited even among medical professionals, much less the average 'civilliam.' Every year, thousands of people unkowingly bid farewell to the lives they have know. Whether the diagnosis is termed severe sonsussion or traumatic brain injury of closed head injury, many survivors are finding out that sometimes when your life ends, you don't actually die." Kara L. Swanson  In An Instant
https://www.lrsssl.com/biaa/bookstore.asp#PersonalAccounts  To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed by Alix Kates Shulman
Everyone over a certain age fears that one day a momentous event outside one's control may occur that will change one's life forever. It happened to Alix and her beloved husband when he fell from a sleeping loft, permanently injuring his brain. This memoir explores life on the other side, with all its anxieties, risks--and surprising rewards.
"An extraordinary and important book...moves with elegance and deep insight between the past and the present, and magically unites them. TO LOVE WHAT IS celebrates the deep resilience of self, and the power of a loving relationship." Oliver Sacks, MD
"Hope, fear, rage, guilt, the powerful endurance of love--it's all laid naked on the page, and every word rings true." Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds
"This is the story of great love forged when death almost parts you and then doesn't, a book that will take its place next to those slender volumes that become tattered and torn as I read and reread and reread, as if my own life depended on it...Shulman's masterpiece." Honor Moore, The Bishop's Daughter
"This remarkable book speaks openly and honestly and with exquisite poignancy about the durability of love." Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Lover TBI as told from the wife side who now must deal with a husband who now deals with an TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY. alix kates shulman http://www.alixkshulman.com/
Extraordinary Story of Love - Video http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1885475/extraordinary_story_of_love/ over my head by Clauda Osborn 
Her book allowed me to see that here was someone who was living with her brain injury. It helped to open up a dialog between my wife and myself about the problem we were facing in our lives. http://www.claudiaosborn.com/home.htm  TBI Publications | |