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Kerry Curtin
I was impacted on my side of the car as the driver. While turning on a green arrow a car sped thru the intersection.
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Belinda Zack
hi my story is about my son. july 13 2006, the worst day of our lives, our then 20 year old son had a quadding accident (atv).
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Bobby Rodriguez
It was the day that everyones feared, Friday the 13th, in the month of November and in the year 1998. I was only 15 at the time and playing JV football.
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Kim Miller
On January 17, 2004 our 5 almost 6 year old son, Trace, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. We were snow skiing in Winter Park, Colorado.
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Daniel Ziolkowski Jr.
Hi my name is Dan Jr., I have an extraordinary story to tell. My mother Mary Lou Ziolkowski was diagnosed with Lung cancer in May of 2007.
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Loretta Walker
On April 9, 2006 it was like any other day. I arose went about my day and went to bed feeling great and healthy. In the middle of the night I woke with the most excrutiating pain in my head and screaming for my husband to call 911.
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Westley Wood
it was an rta 19 march 2005 bristol england i was having a drink as teenager do i was celebrating becoming a pro footballer at the time.
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Annette Hollis
My name is Annette and I had a severe car accident not even a half mile from my home. I had a traumatic brain injury with a broken neck and broken ribs.
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Katie Jones
My younger brother Andrew suffered a road traffic accident on the 9th August 2005. He was 23 at the time of the accident. To this day we do not know how he ended up in a ditch clinically dead at 2.55am that morning.
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Jason Cole
hey! i am a 25 year old man from mississippi. i was in trainiang at my job for dish network. i had my wreck my buddy was driving. i was thrown 100 feet out.
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Nathan Durham
Hi my name is Pam and my husband sustained a TBI October 15, 2006. He was in a coma for about a month, then a low level of consciousness till I brought him home December 7, 2006.
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Orla Hassett
I got pregnant when i was 18yrs of age in 1997. Im small for my age, 4ft 10inc. I was left go 8-10 days over my due date. My daughter was born with Cerebel Palsy, due to lack of oxygen.
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Gerald Whitworth
On June 10, 2006 I was riding my motorcycle on a rural highway at 65mph. I was following a pickup truck on the highway. The driver of the pickup, who I later learned was unlicensed, slammed on the brakes to make a turn.
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Brian Farren
I was on a charity ride for a family that lost the father and 2 children on July 15 2006. On the way to pick up my truck so I could pick up my daughter when I wreck on a motorcycle.
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Shawnya Tarter
Well i was in a car wreck 4 years ago and it caused me alot of pain. i was 9 months preg and i lost the baby. and i got this brain injury from it and its so hard to deal with.
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Dheva Sakayam
i am dheva sagayam, my age is 28 i was injured my age of 15 now i am 28, i am completed my diplomo and degree in pharmacy, i can't work well in my field because of my hesitation, i am injured between the temporal and occipital site.
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Richard Blount jr
hi i am barry...in the summer of 1980 i was living on base in fort knox, ky. i was trying to endure the socially tortuous transition from middle school to senior high school. anyways i was a geek type boy, and i discovered illegal drug use came with a crowd, a buzz, and so at age 12 i had already tried every drug there was
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Alicia Camp
My son, Kelton (but everyone calls him "Peabo"), suffered a severe TBI, as a result of a car accident in July, 1997, at the age of 20.
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Mickey Mills
My name is Mickey Mills. I have 2 children 6 and 10 years old. On 11/6/06 their father, whom I am divorced from but still good friends, fell at work off a 2 story building.
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Emily Holtmann
It all happened on September 1st, 2005. I was a sophomore in high school at University of Illinois in Champaign. It was about 1 in the morning and my roommate and I were doing homework and watching a little TV.
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Wendy Perneroski
Hi my name is Wendy Perneroski, and my son Chris who is 22 suffered a severe brain injury while riding his dirt bike on March 11, 2006 in Augusta, Georgia.
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Regine Hevner
My 17-year old son Stephan had a horrible car accident on October 11th 2005. He left school with two of his friends to go to the local pizza place.
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Jane Parkhurst
First TBI with coma (11 days) was in Aug.1965. I was just one month shy of turning 7 years old. An "impaired/drunk" driver had crossed over the line on a two lane road in San Francisco, CA.
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Michele Scriber
On February 2nd of 2001 my parked car that was on the side of the nys thruway was driven over by a tractor trailer.
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Leah Lusby
My name is Leah Lusby. I was 24 when i got into the car accident. I was drinking but I had enough sense to ask someone else to drive.
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Tshepiso Chokolo
...Because it had turned green for *Neo (us), she put the gear into two and drove on without noticing that the guy was coming from the right. Unfortunately, when they saw each other, it was too late.
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Debbie Hunt
My name is Debbie and I got a traumatic brain injury in a motor vehicle accident when I was a teenager.
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Daniel Hopkinson
My story begins November 22, 1995. I was riding in the back of a truck when we hit a pothole at 45 miles per hour.
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Kay-Cee Lloyd
Easter Sunday 2001, my daughter Kristina had slept at her best friends house, who happened to live next door to us in a condo complex.
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Stephen D. Korczak
It happened 15 years ago on June 10, 1990. It happened when a person ran a STOP sign.
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Mandy McGehee
On August 15, 1998 I was in a near fatal car accident. I was asleep in the front passenger side of a Chevrolet Cavalier driven by my mother.
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Joseph Martin
I am a survivor of TBI since August 22, 1988. I was assaulted with a baseball bat to the back of my head and striking the sidewalk with the front of my head.
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Devina Roberts
My name is Devina, I am 32 years old. Prior to March 1, 2005 I had really no big medical issues, only happy to having a baby, my second child.
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Lee Alvin
My name is Lee, and on January 10, 2004 I laid my motorcycle down and suffered a traumatic brain injury.
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Brian Webb
My name is Brian Webb and I plan to run in the Flying Pig Marathon this May in Cincinnati, Ohio because I can.
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V. Johnson
On February 16th, 2004 my 27 year old brother sustained a gun shot wound to the head. His frontal lobe was completely destroyed.
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C. Joy Bishop
. . . Poor choices that many teens make found him asleep in the backseat of a teen drunk driver's vehicle, then into the middle of a highway fighting for his life.
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Marilyn Stoltzfus
. . . I am a full time paramedic and was on duty working when I heard the dispatch center send a call out for our home address. It was for a man down on the road bleeding from the head.
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Charlie Garrison
My 14 year old son Greg was vacationing with his mother when he fell off of a 65 foot cliff hitting a large rock head first.
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Luanne Davison
My son rolled his Jeep in the mountains of Colorado almost 3 years ago.
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Jimmy Rogers
Hello, my name is Jimmy Rogers and this past August I was in a car accident in which 3 people were killed and 7 injured.
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Laura Breckenridge
I was in a car accident on May 25, 2003. I know I'm very lucky to even be alive.
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Mike Hall
I was in a motorcycle wreck and was thrown 147 feet from the motorcycle with no helmet on.
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Kenneth Calhoun
My name is Kenneth Calhoun, I am 46 years old. Back on January 2, 1991 I had a brain aneurysm while at work.
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Britton Hatch
On July 28, 1995 I was in a bad car accident. My car rolled over and I was clinically dead.
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Veronica Gomes
On May 19, 2004 my son was in a car accident. He was flown to a trauma center with a "traumatic brain injury", they said the frontal lobe was severed.
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Ron Rumney
I am writing this for my husband, Ron. He suffered a TBI on September 14, 1997. He was involved in a motorcycle accident.
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Liliane Colburne
I am the Mom of Navy Seal Mark Colburn who in 1997 during a sky dive exercise was struck by another Seal who went through his parachute, tore it and collided with his head feet first.
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Mario Scorza
My 68 year old wife fell while in the hospital for some colon surgery. The day I was to take her home she fell and hit her head.
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(William) "Doug"
In July of 1982 I fell from a three story roof and suffered an injury to my brain stem.
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Patricia Hill
My son, Aaron was 17 years old when he had his car accident. He was driving alone and there was no speeding, drugs, or alcohol.
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Warren Longnecker
On November 4, 1988 my life changes, I had been living and working out in Texas, I was an aircraft mechanic out at Randolf AFB.
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Katie Ross
I was in a car wreck on the way for a weekend in Louisville with my friends.
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Wendy Torres
I was traveling at 75 mph on the free-way and rear ended a trash truck and slid up against it until the driver side door caved in, then my car came to a stop.
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Debby Gerhards
I am Debby Gerhards and this is the Story of my husband's brain injury.
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Rachel Gayne
Well my story is about my step-dad after he had a real bad automobile accident of January 17th 2004, it left my father with an enclosed brain injury.
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Donna Dean
My husband was in a motorcycle accident without a helmet. He has severe brain damage to the frontal lobes.
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Tammy Leusner
In September of 1999, my boyfriend of 4 years was involved in a motor vehicle accident which left him in a coma with a closed head injury among other health issues.
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Jan Fried
I had a near fatal accident on January 11, 2003. I was in a COMA for 6 weeks, on a ventilator, and was in the hospital for 4 months.
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Joann Thomason
This is the story of my son Fred that I want to share. At age 15 Fred suffered a severe TBI due to a hanging accident.
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Lisa Fink
An automobile accident the summer before my junior year of high school left me with multiple injuries, including a severe closed head injury.
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Shelia Terry
On May 9, 1998, our son, Mark Terry, who was 26 years old at the time suffered a severe closed head injury while riding a motorcross bike at a track in Greenville, Texas.
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Matthias Turtenwald
At the 14. January. 1996 I was alone at home with my three kids. In the afternoon we decided to go to a tower not far from us to see the sunset.
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