Pentagon Plan Won't Cover Cognitive Therapy?!

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!

I could not believe it when I read the title of the below article (click on it to read and also be blown away).

Pentagon Plan Won't Cover Brain-Damage Therapy

Here is a short quote from the article: "Tricare analysis of cognitive rehabilitation discounted studies showing patients benefited from the therapy."

It seems like just basic, common sense that cognitive therapy helps to improve the effects of a TBI. It's one thing if they said this kind of therapy was too expensive, but this is not the issue (or so they say). Let me just tell you that I am sooooooooooo grateful that I didn't have this Tricare medical insurance when my brain was injured. Our poor injured Veterans who do . . . !

Do you think I am going to write a letter to Congress?? ABSOLUTELY. . . and you should too!!

Click HERE to learn how to write a letter to congress (THANK YOU THANK YOU)

Moving right along . . . past my injury!

I read a really terrific article about recent war veterans with TBI and a new program that helps them revisit the site where their injuries took place. The program has helped many to really move past the effects of their injury.

"I can go to the site where I almost died, and I can say, you know what, this is the start of a new life," says Joseph. "I can close that old chapter out and not hold the baggage of the past. I can take my retirement with a lighter heart."

Here is the article and then my thoughts are below.

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/16/132086790/seeking-to-heal-wounded-warriors-return-to-iraq

I see a parallel here. Writing and publishing my book brought me closure. The writing process, for me, was like visiting the battleground was for these soldiers. Maybe it's partly because I'm used to my life with a TBI, but I also believe that all of the investigation I did into "what happened" in my car accident, and reliving it (in a sense) has allowed me to leave it behind and move on. It's called closure.

I applaud these soldiers!

A healthy diet will improve your life with a TBI!

Read this about nutrition for Survivors

(You can read similar information all over the place. I absolutely regret it when I don't eat according to these suggestions -- too much sugar, too much salt, not enough vegetables - and I feel . . . bleh!)

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Click on the picture above and look for "The Smile on My Forehead" on the list of "top blogs."

TBI Culture on the radio - it played!!

I just heard my voice on the radio . . . you can too by clicking here
(do I have a lisp or something?)
listen to me on the November 21st podcast of Cultural Connections

Here ME on the radio . . .

Sunday, November 21st, the KSL radio show, "Cultural Connections" hosted by Nkoyo Iyamba, will discuss The Culture of Brain Injury.

Featuring:
(drum roll, please)

TBI Survivor JENNIFER MOSHER
Parent of a TBI Survivor BROOKE GONZALES
TWO recent U.S Military Veterans who sustained brain injuries in combat (I'm honored to meet them)
RON ROSKOS -- President of the Brain Injury Association of Utah and TBI Survivor

Listen to the Podcast (after 7 am on Sunday, November 21st) here.

la la la la onion

So, about what I posted earlier, getting eye surgery to repair my double-vision. Scratch that. Yeah, that's right. Things have changed. After discussing it with the Ophthalmologist again, we decided to hold off on the surgery . . . for now. That's mostly because he put a prism in my glasses which makes the problem 95% better. I still see double slightly, but it is soooo much better that I don't feel so neurologically taxed all the time.

Maybe in a few years, if my vision reverts back to its old ways, I will look at surgery again. But for now, I feel it's best to wait.