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Simple tips if you are getting ready for that special occasion
Attending all the family gatherings and events this time of year can be extremely difficult for those with injuries, chronic illnesses, and brain injuries or dysfunction. Here are a few tips that are...
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Simple tips to help you feel better instantly
When you feel as though everything you are doing isn’t helping there is still something you can do to help make yourself feel better. You’re probably tired about hearing you need good nutrition and...
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Please stop trying to hurry me along
frustration. (Photo credit: nicole.pierce.photography ♥) No one understands the frustration that hustle and bustle creates in the minds of brain injury, brain dysfunction, chronic illnesses as well as...
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Simple tips to help get proper legal representation following TBI, injuries...
Legal Representation following traumatic brain injury, injuries, and other cognitive issues can help ease the burden in many aspects of life. Don’t wait, time is of essence. Seek help now before it’s...
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Simple and basic tips to bathing, showering and washing up
What is important to personal hygiene? It sounds like such an easy question, but when you are dealing with traumatic brain injury and several other issues that deal with thinking problems this is a...
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Simple and basic tips for toileting, bathroom use, and restrooms after...
Have you ever been with someone who simply continues going to the bathroom? Or may never get to the bathroom in time? These are basic functions that nearly everyone takes for granted from a young...
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Simple and basic tips to dressing and changing clothes
Often society is focused on appearance. It’s either about how you look or it’s about what you are wearing. Maddening as this sounds…it’s superficial! TBI survivors and others with chronic illnesses...
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Simple tips to easiest and most comfortable clothing Part 1 of 2
English: A boy in swmiming trunks (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Dressing comfortable with easy to wear clothing is essential to the wardrobe for those with brain injuries, chronic illness, aging...
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Simple tips to easiest and most comfortable clothing Part 2 of 2
Many times when you or someone you know feels under the weather and dealing with health issues all you want to do is be comfortable. How can one feel most comfortable when their world is turned upside...
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Simple tips … balancing act of symptoms and problem solving
Have you had an increase in symptoms and can not figure out why? It’s no wonder why. Traumatic brain injury affects every part of the body in so many ways and every aspect of life. Here the brain...
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Simple tips … Where have all your friends gone Part 1 of 3
You are finally getting your life back in order. You are alert and oriented, don’t feel like much and yet so much has changed. The world is very different in every respect of the word. Recognizing...
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Simple tips … Where have all your friends gone Part 2 of 3
There is so much no one knows about brain injury, but the basics are explained to the family. They always give the worst case scenario! Families are told “you will never be the same” … and they...
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Simple tips … Where have all your friends gone Part 3 of 3
Everyone should have a Living Healthcare Will highlighting who is significant and who is not. Does your friend know where you keep it? Make sure they have access to your Healthcare Living Will in an...
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Simple tips to help with sleep disturbances
Sleep disturbances with mild, moderate and severe brain injuries are one of the most disturbing symptoms following brain injury and are three times greater than the general population. Are sleep...
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Simple tips understanding HIPAA Regulations
Healthcare Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996, otherwise known as HIPAA, not HIPPA! Remember “AA” not “PP”! This is a common mistake people make, even healthcare workers. If you have...
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Simple tips on decision making when life is so indecisive after brain injury
If you are over 18 there are no safeguards to help with your decision making. If you make the wrong decision you are held responsible. It doesn’t matter that your clarity of thought is disrupted,...
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Simple tips helping others
At times life seems complicated and everything one does just does not make sense. You get up and look in the mirror. You consider yourself fortunate that you’ve survived … sometimes! Because of the...
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Simple tips understanding injuries are very different … Part 2 of 2
Following the minor accident she sustained many symptoms. Some of the problems she recalls are: memory problems, an inability to focus, poor judgement, poor financial decisions, unable to balance a...
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Simple tips understanding how disorganization can be disruptive: comparing...
Keeping organized is essential to recovery from brain injury. Clutter overwhelms the brain and may cause “brain drain” or increase “brain fog”. Changing life by teaching or learning organizational...
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Simple tips how to organize bedroom closet and drawers after traumatic brain...
Keeping organized is essential to good mental and physical health. Organization conserves energy and limits environmental stimuli. Arrange your closet in ways that are easiest for you to find things....
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Simple tips: When YOU suddenly join the TBI club! Part 2 of 3
No one knows their deficits until they are out of formal rehabilitation, when life is no longer structured. At that moment life suddenly becomes overwhelming and full of distractions and demands!...
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Simple tips: When YOU suddenly join the TBI club! Part 3 of 3
This is definitely a family affair! With gratitude to our family and friends who stand/stood by during this complex injury. Families and friends spend endless days fighting the system. They take on...
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Simple tips … making it easier one day at a time with TBI
Do you have a written plan to help yourself or your loved one through the difficult days of TBI? One did not like telling others about having a bad day. They are just days in the lives of TBI....
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Simple tips for brain injury … exercise Part 1 of 2
Are you struggling to get on track to feeling your best? What is your best? Are you interested in becoming your healthiest and prefer avoiding the gym? Are you someone who does best with structured...
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Simple tips … reminders of additional paperwork
There is plenty of paperwork and financial obligations that continue while dealing with devastating injuries and illnesses. Do you and/or spouse or significant other own property? Are you paying life...
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Simple tips for brain injury, illness, aging, injuries, patients … Do you...
No one can be totally prepared to handle a medical crisis alone! How can you be the patient and advocate along with a body in crisis? Some are better ready than others, yet these are too very...
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Simple tips for brain injury … Things you need to carry while on vacation
You never plan on things happening, but be prepared in case of an emergency especially away from home. Hours in the emergency room can easily separate you from others traveling with you. Trust that...
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Simple tips after TBI dealing with behavioral changes, aggression
Aggressive and violent behaviors are common with brain injuries. This type of behavior is extremely difficult to deal with especially when the survivor is young, healthy, and physically strong....
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … Who’s brain injured
Who is always to blame but someone that’s brain injured. Who is believed? It’s not the one who survived brain injury. Those who survive TBI, strokes, multiple other brain dysfunctions, and chronic...
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Simple tips for TBI, chronic illness, aging, patients …. You need forms...
You have been ill or injured. You have struggled to recover. As you recover there are many demands awaiting you. Now you are bombarded by paperwork. Paperwork that you need help filling out,...
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