Insight into Acquired Brain Injury Factors for Feeling and Faring Be
This book offers an empowering approach to working with people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) based upon the views and perspectives of people with ABI themselves. Drawing upon Christine Durham's own ABI experience and Paul Ramcharan’s engagement in d
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Insight into Acquired Brain Injury Factors for Feeling and Faring Better
Insight into Acquired Brain Injury
Christine Durham Paul Ramcharan •
Insight into Acquired Brain Injury Factors for Feeling and Faring Better
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Christine Durham Eltham, VIC Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-5665-9 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-5666-6
Paul Ramcharan Future Social Service Institute, Centre for Applied Social Research RMIT University Melbourne, VIC Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-5666-6
(eBook)
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Preface
Brain Injury: Broken Brain, Bones, Body, Life and Spirit I believe I am in hell therefore I am. Arthur Rimbaud
My life was broken in a split second in 1991. Driving from a day’s teaching to Melbourne University, a car running a stop sign hit my car, spinning it 360 degrees until a power pole in my door finished my flight. The other driver went to get a quote to have his damaged car repaired, leaving me unconscious, choking on my seat belt and having an epileptic fit. Providentially, a passer-by witnessed the accident, ran to my aid, smashed the driver’s window, removed the seat belt and stayed by my side for forty minutes while the fire department’s ‘Jaws of Life’ cut my car in two. Eventually, when I briefly opened my eyes, I was told (but immediately forgot) that I was in intensive care in hospital. In this agonising hell everybody had two heads; they would emerge from the fog to torture me and then fade away. Bewildered and terrified, I did not know if it was normal for people to be two-headed and had no word
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