If you missed the programme last night (and you can get i-player to work) you can listen in by clicking here
let me now what you think
I also wrote a few words about making the programme which you can find here whatsgoingoninhishead.wordp...
Cheers
James
great! programme,keep getting well,huge hugs
A great programme James. You've had a similar but ultimately more tragic experience to me.
Did you receive Neuro help after discharge from hospital? I'm guessing you did because they treated you for the head injury. I didn't unfortunate so I'm playing catch-up after a 2 year period of finding out the hard way what the effects of executive dysfunction are.
Just going to read your 'making of' now.
Very interesting program indeed, your story is one of triumph over adversary and very different from my own but I am feeling more positive about my own situation now and look forward to years of slow but steady progress.
Hi James
Firstly, I want to say I'm so sorry your wife did not make it!
I thought your presentation was excellent. It was so clear in the process of what happens to us when our brains are injured.
I had my TBI in January 2013, so am 2 years behind you. I came out of my coma 5 days after my fall, and I was apparently trying to talk to everyone. To start with, it was just a total slur, and nobody could understand me. My mum and sister had flown over, and I was told they were with me for 2weeks. I was out of hospital after 3 weeks, and went to my son and his wife. (Hospitals are outrageously expensive over there in South Africa)
I obviously had PTA, and I don't recall events until 2 months after my fall. I have the odd snippet of memory, but that is all. There are even photos of me down in the hospital cafe, with my 2 little dogs on my lap, and I was in a wheelchair.
Because my right side was partially paralyzed, and my voice so bad, I tried, with my left hand, to write the things down I was trying to say, and I have photos of all my scribbles. And that's what they actually were - meaningless scribbles!
Looking back on my recovery route so far, I have to be very thankful!
I now live in the UK, and have been managing alone for one year. I can walk my dogs, I can swim up to 1200m every week, play a bit of table tennis, and can be understood! I am also now a volunteer for Headway, and help with the Befriending groups.
It really gives me immense pleasure to help other TBI, or ABI people. I still get fatigued, and don't seem able to cope with planning and organizing. (I tried, and became very run down)
As I was born over here, I am entitled to Benefits, so for the first time in years, don't have to stress about money!
Let's see where I go along my new life journey!
Hi James
just listened, what a fantastic programme, there needs to be many more like that because it is such a hidden injury, please do some more
very sorry to hear about your wife, your journey has been extra tough. You really sounded positive though 
Im coming up to my 1 year anniversary of a fall down stairs, apparently I have a high IQ but struggle with memory and executive functioning, think a couple of my cogs in 'cog'nition aren't turning as they should 
Louis Theroux On Brain Injury
Any good indoor light sensitivity glasses that atually work? 
I think following refers to ESA which is a dss benefit, yes? 
Passing Time with a TBI
