Month: March 2014

Tonight is music & open mic. Dealer’s choice. Have a topic or issue YOU want to discuss, a brain injury resource you’d like to plug? Call in and keep me company, or listen to some great tunes & kick back this Saturday night!

Dr. Maria Romanas knows first-hand what it means to live with a severe brain injury that occurred when she was 18. It took her 29 years to find out how to prevent her permanent cognitive impairments from causing disability in her professional and personal life.

An 8-week program of intensive holistic cognitive rehabilitation trained her to become her own self-therapist. Now with her brain under conscious control, she is thriving and functioning better than she has her whole adult life.

Although she is still working full time as a pathologist, her passion is brain injury recovery. As medical director of GiveBack, she educates survivors and families how to become their own self-therapists. She also educates physicians about chronic TBI and advocates for every survivor to have access to expert cognitive rehabilitation. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology.headtrauma/44084

YOUR OPEN MIC & Indy Music. Brain Injury Radio is a means of Peer Support. Use us! Call in with what’s on your mind, what you’d like to hear, or even to say hello. Good time to bring up topics YOU’D like to hear about. We aim to please. 🙂

Transitioning new permanent Saturday Night host, but in the meantime…You’re getting me. Thanks to Mike Idell for doing a great jobbing of subbing last week. Much appreciated. Step up with your alternative Peeps…The tapes are coming! haha

I’ll turn the key and open the door. You come in…Or not. Then you’ll hear some great music sure to inspire.

Ever feel like you have battle fatigue, even though you’ve never been to war? Or have you? Sometimes the battle front isn’t across the world, but in our own backyard Dorothy! Ordinary folks feel the effects of stress overload situationally. Many Veteran’s feel these effects, by what is now called PTSD.. but brain injury survivors and care givers live an ongoing battle of their own. That sums up my week! I think you may recognize some facts and insights that you find familiar. Would love to hear your examples too! Call in & share.

This show is a gathering place for anyone seeking recovery from the challenges of life on life’s terms. I introduce topics, and survivor’s share their experience, strength and hope. We discuss useful tools that have helped us lighten the load, of our journey through recovery.

My guest is Kathy Moeller, Certified Brain Injury Specialist who works with Vocational Rehab agencies throughout the USA. In 1990, she experienced a brain injury, and has been devoted to assisting others return to enjoyable, sustainable employment. We will be discussing “Outsmarting Brain Injury and Returning to Work”. Kathy M is founder of Cognitive Harmonics, Inc. and is an inventer of cognitive prosthetics. Find more information at www.cognitiveharmonics.com

This show is a gathering place for anyone seeking recovery from the challenges of life on life’s terms. I introduce topics, and survivor’s share their experience, strength and hope. We discuss useful tools that have helped us lighten the load, of our journey through recovery.

Tonight’s show is not only a reminder (if it applies), that at 2am your clock will really be an hour later, until next fall…But an attitude that makes the journey through recovery a more positive suggestion! Now if the weather would just catch up and get the memo!!

Open mics, a few pearls of wisdom (or not), and some great Indy music. We’re running ads for a permanent Saturday night host, so if you’re interested…Please apply within. haha

Mikal Vega is a Combat Veteran with 22.5 years of military service, nine of those years in Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and 13 years as a Navy SEAL. He was medically discharged due to combat related injuries suffered during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), when a roadside IED low ordered while manning the turret of a HMMWV, causing a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) and severe trauma to the cervical vertebrae.

Mikal was awarded two Bronze Stars with Combat Valor and a Purple Heart from his service in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights chose Vital Warrior founder Mikal Vega as a recipient of the 2014 CCHR Human Rights Award.

After nearly dying from a cocktail of pharmaceuticals prescribed to him for symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress, Mikal decided to find a better way. Four years ago, he founded Vital Warrior, a non profit organization and system of non-pharmaceutical rebalancing designed by a Mikal himself. This system is geared towards alleviating the detrimental effects of acute stress in its clients without the use of pharmaceutical drugs. www.vitalwarrior.org

Kicking off National Brain Injury Awareness Month…Call in with what, if anything you are doing to raise the banner of awareness! Ask about Donna & join the cause. 🙂

Other than that…Hypthothermia, Snow, Brutal Wind Chills, Ice and Down Right Crappy Weather, is sweeping much of the nation…And WE’RE SICK OF IT!! Not praying for the end of time…But for SPRING to arrive! Meatloaf, can you fix that?! 🙂 Call in if you get what I just said. Haha

Kim Justus is filling in until our permanent Saturday Night Host arrives. Keep me company! I’m snowed in and suffering from cabin fever…And we need a deeply meanful show…Or, a fun place to hang with friends on a blustery night. 🙂 Bring us some sunshine, warm states/countries. 🙂

Will be playing great Indy Music, between our sound bites, cause we rock! …And I’m hoping you can meet my new friend, fellow survivor, and Indy song writer/musician Alan Kitto! Short notice, working on it…But will be introducing you to his music, and hopefully him in person.