Surviving Brain Injury | David Henry | TEDxUniversityofWinnipeg
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2020
- David survivied several brain injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life. After 20 years of trying to cope he has finally found a way to survive and thrive with his brain injury. He wants to help others who live with similar issues and help their families understand. David Henry has had multiple life-changing experiences. He deals with mental health issues associated with brain injury and wants to help bring more awareness about brain injury. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Even if I look good outside, Im not completly fine on the inside. Strong words
The stigma that comes about with mental illness or a TBI is sickening. I have survived a few TBI's both of which being in the frontal lobes. I really needed to hear this. God bless you David.
I just had a TBI on the frontal lobe last month and I’m struggling. I’m healing, I just don’t know how to manage living with the difficulties. If you have advice I’d greatly appreciate it.
I don't know if it counts. I fell hit my head hard, and had stitch my lib. I cope with addiction, and have problem with empathy. It makes me wonder.
I don’t know who I am I’m in so much pain
I got hit by a car in December and damaged both frontal lobes and my brain stem these videos are honesty so nice
Bless your soul for speaking truth. You are helping so many people. You can't even realise. Thank you.
You are not a regular man as you said, you are a real inspirationfor all of us. You are such a brave man and your life an amazing example to follow
I suffered a TBI back in March 2023 through a freak accident at work. It was the back right of my head and my ear. I was put into an induced coma for two weeks and in the brain trauma unit for six weeks. I lost my smell and the hearing in my left ear was affected for a short while and I’m left with sequential and attention memory problems and fatigue hits me out of the blue. I’m also just noticing that I’m extremely sensitive to certain noises and so avoid large crowds.
Most people have zero understanding of the effects of a TBI and say things like “oh but you look ok” and “are you alright now”, or they say “we all get memory problems” and “we all get tired” I just nod and say yes ok 🙄.
I wish you the very best 🙏
You're stronger than you think. Very encouraging video for TBI survivors
Inspirational and comforting!
I'm a TBI surviver. I want to believe this isn't the end when confronted by the associated side effects and you've help me realise its just the beginning of a new chapter!
Thank you for sharing your experience
Wow I can so relate! I have complex PTSD all my life before major TBI changed my life, it has never been same. TBI magnified mental health issues 10,000 times. Thank God for neuroplasticity. Thank you for this great video!
The brain is quite literally the most amazing thing in this Universe. The brain is to doctors what the ocean floor is to oceanographers. Medical science hasn't even come close to mapping the brain and how it works nor do I think was ever meant to know how it works. God sure knew what he was doing in crafting this mysterious and marvelous thing we call the brain.
Thanks i hit my head twice in two weeks. Was really sad but i saw your video and it gave me strength
I have no faxe wounds just one mark from rear ended. Your so confident. I pray I get mine back. I feel like a coward and emotional mess. Thank you.
Thank you! It’s so amazing to hear a story I can relate to. I had an unreported concussion. I also fell 17ft a month ago and have been trying to figure out how to keep my own mind with severe TBI, C-PTSD, depression and anxiety. It’s terrifying, but I’m extremely fortunate. I should be paralyzed and in a coma but instead I’m recovering quickly. A lot of what he said I’ve already learned are lifelines to hold to. This was helpful
Keep going brother. Ty for your courage and bravery to speak about these issues. I deal with them to. God bless you and your family
We are survivors I have hypoxia brain injury I died 26minutes spent weeks months in coma rehab hospital learning talk walk again been a recovery massive discovery never ever give up on yourself many will never yourselves keep going doing amazing things x
My 8 week old daughter suffered from Anoxic Brain injury. She was only in the NICU for two days before Doctors tried to push me into making a decision to take a brain dead test and 5 days later the same things. They said she would never recover and there was no hope. They gave her morphine on the third day of being in the hospital. I had to fight for her. Within 7 days she started to move and by the 12th day he open her eyes. She is now using a trach and g stube. Now I am trying medical treatment
Keep fighting. Doctors mostly are no longer patient advocates. The business side owns them head to toe.
It’s so hard and emotional exhausting but God has giving me the strength of endurance
How is your daughter doing now after six months Crystal, how are you doing as well?!?
Anyone going through this stick in there it gets better sending luck hugs love from headway Nottingham UK x
Thank you David I pray God blessing you and your family
Thank, i know the feeling. I was brain injured as a child, fairly seriously, encephalomalacia of the left frontal and parietal lobes from an mva. People said i wouldn't even survive like you. I floated through a couple of years of college after high school and went back to college in 18 full time thanks to a grant and excelled comparatively, but the situation is grim. I still do deliveries like i did in college even though i have a ba. My hand is in the cap, and i don't know if i will ever go to graduate school. I may go back and get an AAS in radiology technology. Hard to say, but it has caused mental health issues and even some health issues. Its encouraging to see you on here.
I'm a TBI surviver, it is a daily struggle.
Wow I’m so sorry 😢 you got the most horrible end of life but you managed to get past it like a trooper
What a lovely man you are David and THANK YOU for sharing. You are helping me more than you know.
David! You’re the man! I’ve had a few mild tbi’s and one moderate! I worry everyday I won’t make it your age to watch my child have children. 100% of a blessing to see my days away from home working to support my family aren’t short coming! Praise God and thank you for your TEDxTALK
Wow, congratulations!! I also have serious TBI, 10 days on a ventilator, close to checking out. I wrote poetry to heal the grief. I couldn't write prose because of diminished organization ability, executive skills. "A Life Interrupted: Living with Brain Injury," available on amazon, BN, etc, in digital and paperback form. My neurologist says his patients all rave about my book, and tell him "she really gets it!"
Dave, thanks for sharing.
I can most definitely relate to all of this!!
Just before Covid lockdown, I suffered an unexpected blackout because I had hit my head. My brain was bleeding. While unconscious, I crashed into another car. I woke up in the hospital after a Craniotomy.
I was well within a year. A HUGE challenge. You can get through this.
Proud of you David mental health stinks brain injury stinks blurred vision balance headache fatigue depression but we after keep fighting mental health isn't the winner we are it's a hard road but worth it in end stay strong
Here we are again 😊 just happened to listen to this today. I never told you I acquired third nerve palsy of one eye when I got my tbi. The eyelid was actually closed for four months, then slowly reopened on its own. The lid is still a bit droopy. But anyway, my pupils dont line up together. No surgery available for that. They made a prism lens, so I am wearing eyeglasses now, with a prism lens for the bad eye. But it only helps at a fixed distance, that they determined when they made the prism. It doesn't adapt to my eye seeing close or far, that technology isn't available. And yes this adds to my headache issues on occasions. What you wrote here is exactly what I have been thru, and/or still enduring. Take care Deb 😀
@@bruceradz bless you got this stay strong stay positive x
@@debblackmore7460 yes, always try to, doing the opposite doesn't look good. You do the same Deb 😀
@@bruceradz it's a hard road but worth it in end I listen to music alot chills you don't listen to sad music wordserchers help spelling you got this you know that keep going keep positive keep believing in yourself x
on 3 june 2023 my brother went unconscious
His eyes rolled back
...and doctors told us that he has a heart attack and as a result have hypoxic brain injuury...
uptill now there is no complete treatment for this thing..
Its been a month now
initially he can only open his eyes with limited look around movement..
now
He can move his lips and tongue a little..
And he also started to yawn..
and few times ..very few times..move his elbow,feet finger and head a little.
When something is put in his mouth he try to chew it
Its been almost three weeks he is breathing on his own initially was put on a ventilator
doctors says from now it all depends on patient's will power to secure complete recovery..
He is having food through NG tube
He also have tracheostomy tube in the neck
Also mri scans have shown global or severe hypoxic brain injuury
He is only 33
He was a healthy person before.
It seems like he can listen when we ask him to blink his eyes he blink his eyes
I breathed in a toxin at work. This caused 'enormous' 24/7 headaches for 3 months. Now, I have double vision in both eyes...everytime I push or indeed stand for too long I get enormous left sided headaches, double vision gets worse, fatigue etc. My neurologist says my scans are ok but I simply can't push out of it. I spend most days seated. It's been over a year now. I'm so unhappy. Does anyone know what I should do?
I just fell last month and got a TBI that gave me double vision. The doctors said it was bc my injury prevented my eyes from coordinating and focusing. They told me to wear sunglasses in overstimulating light and not to cross my eyes. I also think there are some glasses that can help correct it and the doctors say there’s a procedure they wanna try but I don’t really understand it. It’s not a surgery. They don’t want to risk that on my eyes. I’ll have to see my doctor again and find out more then I can let you know.
I’m very sorry you’re dealing with this too. I hate the double vision and I can only imagine the toxins. It’s fun to look at grass though. The grass blades multiply as you focus on them. That at least entertains me
As for the TBI, it’s probably very different from mine but mine is severe and I wasn’t supposed to ever walk again. I can. Also, a good scan doesn’t mean you’re healed. I see doctors on a weekly basis that help me primarily with cognitive, speech, and physical recovery. I’d also highly recommend a therapist. In fact my doctor says therapy can be vital. If you don’t take care of yourself right you can get worse or it can be detrimental to your healing. I’m no doctor so you should double check what I say but hopefully I helped. Severe TBIs are terrible.
Stay strong stay positive you got this x
@@elihubrown49 you should look into vision therapy for your eyes! I also had a convergence insufficiency that wasn't as bad as yours but more than the glasses the vision therapy helped tremendously! there are doctors and programs specifically for people who had concussions. I would highly recommend, as my vision has been normal for the past year!
Been there..
How you travelling these days?
When the brain 🧠 is damaged it's never the same!!!
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