Brain Injury Check list

Hi researching the level of problems I live with following my TBI and found a check list at

headinjury.com/checktbi.htm

Found it useful do headway do any thing similar

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REALLY INTERESTING. DID THE CHECKLIST. WOULD HAVE LIKED INFO ON WHAT THE TOTALS MAY SIGNIFY BUT I GUESS BIs ARE ALL SO DIFFERENT IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO GENERALISE.

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So would I that's why I asked if Headway did something similar

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Just computed the results for me I scored 58% that is 263 points out of a possible 452

I guess that this means I to get this score means things are not what they should be

I am going to take a print out with me to the GP on Monday

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Dillm I am so pleased that this topic has just caught my attention. This morning I woke up and hought "right OK" I've hd enough of this! I am going to write down my medical history from scratch - 90% of which has occurred here, not in UK, since December 2010 and March 2013 when I had my aneurysm / brain haemorrhage, and 2 other brain traumas since then, leading to where I find myself now with a liver problem that is being invesigated, albeit slowly because its taken many steps, via blood tests and mri's to get me to this point. Yes there is some personal history that has no doubt contributed which I will also write down after medical history.

However as far as brain sience goes, I also think it all a question about making the links between the brain and the other organs that keep us contained inside our skin and bones. The brain, most important organ? as the article you mentioned says, is the essence of the "me" - the other organs essentially need to work properly to feed the brain with ozygen and nutrients. Medical and surgical skills generally can keep them going. But the working brain that's a whole different side of things.

I can only liken it all to growing flowers, the essentials we all know are needed to keep them going.....or to a washing machine - it fulls of working parts - the programmer that operates it all is the brain - a pump to push water round the system - is the heart to push the blood around the body - detergent for cleaning the contents, - lungs taking in oxygen for the blood cells - breathing in and out to take good bits in and out - also that's the rinse and spin cycle brings the bad bits out.

When we have hard water we need to use an anti calcium product to protect all those working parts of the machine, or it clogs up and stops. Much like the liver and kidneys are also cleansing and protecting organs of the body, or they clog up and interfere with the working of the brain, heart and lungs. Liver problems are connected to neurological problems in some way, and am grateful that Health Unlocked has expanded into so many more Health Communities.

Fortunately I still have my intellect, which is slowly disintegrating this year, but much later than the other neural functions that don't work properly. I probably sound a bit mad having written this - but I remembered before I had even put my computer on today, something connected with my father over 16 years ago. He lived alone in Scotland, although he had many friends and was a popular well respected man in the neighbourhood.- I was in England and wanted him to come and live with us. He was ill, I didn't know till a phone call from a neighbour prompted me to phone his doctor. Yet for weeks we had spoken on the phone and he was still good old dad, full of chat, intellect and we had some great converations. I spoke to his doctor and him at home - persueded him to go to hospital - my airplane ticket had been booked 2 weeks previously for me to go and spend a week with him. He hadn't lost his intellect. 10 days later, on the day I was flying up there, he died in hospital, but had told me on the phone from there, that he wanted his typewriter, he needed to write things down, possibily about his treatment and quality of care, yet when I spoke to nurses about his condition and progress they hadsaid he was a bit loopy but ok. He was actually underweight, had probably not eaten properly for months and who knows what processes had been going on in his body and brain.

Fortunately a lot of medical progress has been made since then, but although the doctors and the scientists may know the science - we are the ones with the real knowledge and experience of what happens or is happening to us in our brains - we are living and experiencing the effects of brain injury and perhaps other related illnesses. 'WE' are the real live ESSENCE of 'ME' - something no-one without their own brain injury will ever understand.