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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) | Last Active: Sep 1 1:18pm | Replies (31)
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@gregd1956

Who have a >TBI< from an accident - falling down, riding a car/motorcycle, suicide (but still alive). Some people, that I know, we’re really young and has a TBI. Others, like me (68 yo), the age turns to a different way than the little kids. Our life has changed - a little different way than “normal” ways 🙃

1) Having a TBI, might be: close friends, families or closed families, or yourself? ❤️

2) How can you help, daily, the best-friends, families, or yourself? 😉

3) How about exercising like talking daily with someone, lifting your body, walking inside or outside your home, cooking, cleaning , helping, and on… 😉

4) Who loves MAYO and why? ❤️

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Dec 17, 2023

Hi @gregd1956, I moved your post to the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Support Group here https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/traumatic-brain-injury-tbi/

I know you'll get more responses from others who have experience living with TBI here. I'm tagging fellow members like @badbenny @hevykevy @ethancarruthers @dawnpereda @lakelifelady @lolabelle1 @lanieg @craigdunn @kayabbott @ricj @willow11 and many others.

I think you'll appreciate browsing through the various discussions in the group and joining in.

Greg, did you get back on your bicycle since your injury? What activities do you like doing?

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kayabbott | @kayabbott | Dec 17, 2023

Hi. I had a moderate TBI 30 years ago from a rollerblade fall. Damaged my basal frontal and left temporal lobes (skull fracture over left ear). A lot of my recovery was the first 1.5 years; the rest took ~10 years. Keeping friends/family is hard when your life changes so much, hugs to your wife. I have some deficits in remembering names and numbers, emotions are closer to the surface (technically an improvement over the old me), and smell and taste is around 80%. I bike a lot, try to learn new things, read, do crossword puzzles, cook, and garden to keep my brain engaged. I am a retired research scientist, so live in my head, which probably helped my rewiring. Great that you play music; that is good as well.

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