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Early Monday morning December 10th, 2007, Cannonball, the kindest man in the world, was admitted to ORMC after a motorcycle accident. He suffered severe head trauma and was in a coma. On January 29th, doctors told Brian's family that he was no longer in a coma. His subsequent limited responses were most likely due to his head injury, the result of being in a coma, and because of his need for rehab. As of April, he's had different types of in-patient therapy, started walking and talking (some sentences are coherent, many are not). Now that he is able to communicate some he is proving to be just as sweet and funny as ever! He just moved to a new home in Deland and is living with his brother and sister. He will continue to need extensive out-patient therapy to help redevelop his cognitive skills. He continues to make remarkable progress every week but we've still got a long way to go.He needs love, friendship, positive energy and let's face it - coin. Friends and loved ones kept vigil at the hospital before his move to rehab, musical/art benefits are going on and more are being planned, and we know he can feel the love. But there's more to be done - any and all ideas to help Cannonball and his family please go for it... Thank you, Katie and Stephanie - Cannonball Relief Fund

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Here in Tampa until tomorrow (Wed)

We are here in Tampa for our weekly neurofeedback trip -- nice place we stay -- Sailport Waterfront Suites -- not very expensive at all and right on the water (Bay).Next week we will come over to Tamp...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:32:00 GMT

Doc's optimism/good news/not so good news

Well in Nov of last year, our Rehab Doc basically told us that we had to be prepared to take care of Brian for the rest of his life -- This didn't sit well with me, as it felt like they had run throug...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:32:00 GMT

The REAL Brian!! haha

He HAS to screw with the picture every time a camera is pointed at him! :-):-):-)
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:29:00 GMT

Week three/Sessions 5 and 6

Well, still nothing overt with the treatments yet -- but since I will be taking Bri with me to AK, we will double up for the next 3 weeks -- so that means we will go to Tampa on Tues for 2:30 treatmen...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:19:00 GMT

Am I crazy or what?

Brian and I will head to Tampa tomorrow for 3rd trip to Dr Lambos and 5th and 6th neurofeedback treatments. -- Dr Lambos said we should expect "remarkable results" in 10 weeks and there was even a ch...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:23:00 GMT

Let's get started!

So we timed the trip to Tampa to avoid traffic and did pretty good -- The only time Brian and I have been in the car for over an hour was Antemesaris -- so wanted to make sure he would be ok with two ...
Posted by on Sat, 23 May 2009 13:43:00 GMT

Here we go...

Well, we just signed up for another month of interactive metronome, as Brian seems to be progressing well with it -- it's been more about focus and concentration than word retrieval, but the idea is t...
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 12:22:00 GMT

Findings of study of TBI patients in Australia

Long Term Outcomes after Traumatic Brain InjuryA Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophyin Public Health and Community MedicineHeather B HillUniversity of New South Wales2004 After the injury, p...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 12:25:00 GMT

grrr

Still working on practitioner for LENS (low energy neurofeedback system) in the local area the only one close is in Altamonte Springs and neither of his phone numbers are good I read that he was ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 May 2009 15:01:00 GMT

Good morning for Brian

Brian woke up this morning and said 5 complete and fully understandable sentences -- whoa!Just thought I'd throw this out there... :-) I've been talking to a couple of docs about neurofeedback -- on M...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 07:41:00 GMT