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What Are the Long-Term Effects of Brain Injury?
Recovery from a minor brain injury, such as a concussion, usually takes a short period of time (3 to 6 months), and the recovery often is complete. For more serious injuries, degrees of recovery vary. Factors that predict good recovery are the patient's age (younger is better), duration of coma (longer is worse), presence of bleeding in the brain, and the site and amount of trauma to the head and brain. Patients who survive severe brain injury often face a long recovery process (years) and are left with permanent disabilities.
Rehabilitation programs help patients regain their cognitive and emotional faculties. During the rehabilitation process, it is common for patients to have lapses of memory, behavioral changes, emotional problems such as anxiety or depression, changes in sleep patterns, declines in intellectual ability, and seizures. Psychological counseling and brain injury support groups are available to help patients and families deal with the long-term rehabilitation process.
http://www.humanillnesses.com/Behavioral-Health-Br-Fe/Brain-Injuries.html
After surgery, anticonvulsant drugs (such as phenytoin) may help control or prevent seizures, which can begin as late as two years after the head injury.
Prognosis
If treatment is provided soon enough, recovery is usually complete. Headache, amnesia, attention problems, anxiety, and giddiness may continue for some time after surgery. Most symptoms in adults usually disappear within six months, with further improvement over several years. Children tend to recover much faster.
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/subdural_hematoma.jsp
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With all this going on, he would be INSANE to drink during the recovery process, especially if he has to take precautionary anticonvulsants. I think we're entering a new paradigm phase in Keith's life and career.
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| pdog |
I wish Keith the best, if this is the end, so be it! |
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| Joey |
Well , there goes the " Mini - tour " of the staes this fall .
Damn !
BEST STONES YET too ......... !
www.QWESTCENTER.com
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| pdog |
Joey has been living with brain injuries his entire postin' life!
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| Joey |
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pdog wrote:
Joey has been living with brain injuries his entire postin' life!
You make Joey smile |
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| voodoopug |
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Joey wrote:
You make Joey smile
Please see the schedule I emailed you, I will be heading to Missouri tomorrow....please mind the store? |
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| jb |
Sponge's are sometimes used. |
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| voodoopug |
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jb wrote:
Sponge's are sometimes used.
please advise typical insurance coverage and potential lawsuits. |
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| Joey |
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voodoopug wrote:
Please see the schedule I emailed you, I will be heading to Missouri tomorrow....please mind the store?
Kansas City .........
Please have a drink at " Henry's " in the Plaza ( ......Westport , actually ) for me !
Jacky ! |
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| SweetVirginia |
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voodoopug wrote:
Please see the schedule I emailed you, I will be heading to Missouri tomorrow....please mind the store?
Pug...
If you're going to KC,
go off your diet for one night and eat
at Stroud's (pan fried chicken).
SV
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| glencar |
KFC? Why not try Mickey D's?
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