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Our regular contributor Dr. Maria Romanas is back to discuss “The Impact of Fatigue on Executive Function in TBI”. As we proceed through Brain Injury Awarness Month, knowledge is power. Many report that fatigue is their most challenging symptom after brain injury. Reasons for the fatigue are not well understood but may include endocrine abnormalities, the need for the brain to work harder to compensate for brain injury deficits (in other words, inefficiency), or changes to brain structures. Cognitive fatigue is often characterized by feeling mentally drained, apathy, and difficulty concentrating. Other symptoms include: Being easily distracted. Problems with working memory. Sound familiar? You are not alone.

Join Kim and Caren for Matters of the Brain this Awareness Month – Callers welcome!

Sundays at 5:30 pm. Brain Injury Radio airs live 36 countries across the world. It is always archived in the Blog Talk Radio and Brain Injury Radio databases for future listening.

Jeffrey Sebell is a forty year survivor, promoting our abilities, focusing on our strengths through his book “Learning to Live with Yourself After Brain Injury”, blogging, writing for a variety of publications, acting as a Keynote Speaker, and service. See more at his website: TBIsurvivor.com Jeffrey experienced a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in 1975, when, as the result of a car accident, he was in a coma for a month with frontal lobe and brain stem injuries. His goal now is to provide meaningful support to those who have experienced a brain injury by helping them find the means within themselves to live a fulfilled life. Since his TBI, he has had several jobs, but have most always found the time to spend on writing and speaking, and I was on the founding board of directors of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Head Injury Foundation. Jeffrey is currently an author and speaker, living in Maine. He doesn’t focus so much on re-telling his own experiences, as on what it takes for those of us who have had a Traumatic Brain Injury to live a fulfilled life.

Meg Busing knows that everything can change in an instant. After emerging from a coma with a traumatic brain injury that would lead to a decade long battle with intractable epilepsy, she discovered that the world does not always understand invisible challenges. However, nothing has stopped her from boldly pursuing her dreams. As founder and Executive Director of the Midwest YouCan Foundation, Meg has created Camp YouCan-a unique opportunity for kids and young adults with Epilepsy to come together to see all that they CAN do. See: midwestyoucan.org for more information, and Meg’s TedX Talk.

Bonnie Nish is Executive Director of Pandora’s Collective Outreach Society a charitable organization in the literary arts, in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada. Bonnie is an Expressive arts therapist who has worked with at risk populations for the last 20 years. Her first book of poetry ‘Love and Bones ’ was released by Karma Press in 2013. Her later book, an anthology of concussion related stories was published in August 2016. You don’t have to be in sports or the military, to have a life changing event from concussion. See: bonnienish.com Concussion and Mild Brain Injury: Not Just Another Headline gives clear insight into how the lives of those suffering from concussion and mild brain injury (MBI) are impacted. The individual stories of injury, recovery and discovery document the effect of the survivor’s MBI on immediate and extended family members, and social and work communities.

Happy Valentine’s Day – Spread the Love! Last weeks show with Dr. Maria was on building quality relationships, so this week Caren and I are spreading the word on damage our cell phones can be inflicting on us. When I read the first article in “The Hill” .. It smacked of the NFL scandal. Studies on the harmful effects of repeated concussions had been around for decades, then buried. AFTER much damage has been done, the truth surfaced. Why had it been buried? The results gave an unfavorable account of the magnitude of the damage possible incurring multiple or just the right blow to the head. Money, power, greed trumps health and safety. Sound familiar? Certainly not the first or last time, or scenario. The National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has quietly disclosed that it will stop studying the biological or environmental impacts of cell phone radiofrequency radiation. Don’t rush to upgrade, that’s a marketing cue. Read the small print, or call and ask the provider as I did. Radiofrequency (RF) and Electromagnetic Frequency (EMF) may literally change our DNA structure or cause Cancer, among other things. As we get bigger and stronger cells, the towers to power them – coupled with the other sources that provide them in concert, WHY would studies cease? RN is a gathering place for anyone seeking recovery from challenges of life on life’s terms.

Dr. Maria Romanas will be joining us to discuss protecting others from ourselves, and building trust in relationships. True belonging is about being present without sacrificing our sense of self. With Valentine’s Day next week, some food for thought. We tend to gauge that day in terms of whether or not we have a love interest, and how that’s going for us. We’re “happy” if we have that special someone, and depressed if we don’t .. Feeling lonely and left out. Think back to your childhood. Do your remember those boxes full of little Valentine’s cards we passed out to friends in school? I suppose these days, that gesture if any is made, is an emoji or text. In any case, as a child those cards to we handed out went to “friends,” both boys and girls. We spread the love and happiness to all. We may have shared sweet treats, to those little candy hearts with cute sayings on them. Either way, we spread happiness, joy, and love. It was a fun day. No one felt lonely or left out. How do we generate those feelings in all of our relationships, every day? Not the cards and sweets, but the being present, projecting love and trust? Tune in and see 🙂

You thought your dog was here just to be your loving support and joyful playmate! Bet your pup is potentially much more than that according to Heather Leigh Strom. Your pet could be the physical conduit for your K9 Spirit Guide! In her groundbreaking book K9 Spirit Guides: The Healing Power of Man’s Best Friend, Heather Leigh reveals that these unique spiritual energies are here to guide us on OUR journeys of healing, growth, wisdom, transformation, spiritual evolution and ascendency. And the ones that choose to enter your life through your pet are divinely matched to you to teach you what your soul is calling to learn. Heather Leigh would only discover this for herself after having passed through decades of a deeply difficult life, beginning with a verbally abusive and emotionally absent father, then poverty, crippling accidents, loss and more. Fueled by sheer willful determination, pain and repressed rage, she created three highly successful careers, in dog training, physical therapy and cycling. Heather Leigh Strom shares how her canine companions came to her with specific gifts at specific times to move her toward healing and a joyful life. She has become the channel through which the K9 Spirit Guides are bringing their messages and frequency of healing to all of us. See: heatherleighstrom.com & k9spiritguides.com

In 1991 I was a successful Harley Davidson Dealer, marketed an onboard dynamometer of my own design for motorcycles and had a successful software company that licensed software to manage a motorcycle business. In 1994/95 He was also aspiring to break the land to speed record (then 318mph). Things were going well .. until they weren’t. His parachutes didn’t open, and a horrific accident occurred. Needless to say, Vance was so seriously injured, that the medical team didn’t expect him to live. He was on life support with a severe TBI, not showing any brain activity. What happens from there are things miracles are made of, and strong message of hope to all who hear his story. For more on Vance see: breeseaircraft.com