Denise Mercado was a Military Mom who learned about HBOT when one son became an Army diver in the Special Forces 7th Group. Her youngest son, was born with developmental disabilities, so she became an advocate wanting to discover more effective treatment options. She went on to establish Fayetteville Hyberbarics. www.fayettevillehbot.com
Dr Robert Ferguson became the Medical Director at the Fayetteville Facility. He is a retired Colonel-US Air National Guard, Medical Officer, and Flight Surgeon. Together they have been offering hope through HBOT.
Open Mic Night to share your positive memories of Brain Injury Radio as we kick off the week of our 4th Anniversary! In addition, I would like to hear your happy jokes, ancedotes, goals, and desires. Last week, I covered grief and mourning. Like it or not, those are also elements on a path of recovery. This week, we explore the other side of the coin. I also have several new Indie Artists to play, as well as your favorite requests. And YOU bring ME a side splitting joke! (BYOJ) 🙂
Music and humor have long been demonstrated to be uplifting and useful tools in recovery. Be it a simple smile, or a belly laugh; a pretty little ditty, or a tune that stirs the smiles and memory. Of course I’ll have some facts to back that up or, you guys will demonstrate how that works in practice.
We are all responsibility for making our own good times, by the tone of our attitude. Bring your happy face, and pay it forward to tonight…Or, just sit back and chill to a myriad of tunes, guaranteed to stoke the attitudes and put you in the mood to party down! Let’s turn that frown, upside down tonight and rock on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHvbyIKxmNQ Lady Gagaphant Your Humble Host
September 11, 2001 signaled a day of everlasting change for most of America. When we had our brain injuries, that process of ongoing grief and change, happened for us too. In both cases, many suffer not only from their injuries, but PTSD as well. Please call in tonight on this Eve of 9-11, when many of us revisit our grief from the country’s tragedy, to those of our own. Collective mourning lends itself to support, and frees us from the isolation, we so often seek. It was 14 years ago that 9-11 happened. For me, 19 years since my brain injury. Too often we are told by others, or believe ourselves, that we should be done feeling the sting of our mourning this far down the road. Reality shows us, that recovery is process, with many triggers on the road, reminding us of the day(s) that changed us forever.
Larry Schutz, PhD, ABPP is a neuropsychologist with more than 30 years of experience in brain injury rehabilitation. He trained with the founders of intensive holistic cognitive rehabilitation and has since refined the methodology to develop an advanced 8-week program Self-Therapy for Adaptive Recovery (STAR). He is the author of the books Head Injury Recovery in Real Life and Rehabilitation of the Shaken Soldier Syndrome.
Dr Schutz founded GiveBack, a non-profit organization that provides education and support so that survivors can learn how to become recoverers. He has written 2 free manuals that can be accessed via the GiveBack websites at givebackorlando.com and givebackla.com. The first is for survivors titled: “Self-Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury: Teaching Yourself to Prevent Brain-Injured Moments.” The second is for family members/friends: “Helping your Family to Recover from Brain Injury.”
In 2004, Kimberly Chapman suffered two ruptured brain aneurysms and was astounded by the lack of public awareness and sparse research of such a widespread and often fatal condition. Recognizing the need for brain aneurysm advocacy and other types of vascular malformations of the brain, she personally established several international support networks to provide information, resources and motivation for survivors and family members. Kim has created a patient advocacy program inside The Joe Niekro Foundation which offers patients and caregivers educational information along with a huge amount of resources to find help.This mission with the Joe Niekro Patient Advocacy Program is to help survivors realize that recovery is possible and will help patients learn what to expect during the healing process and new coping strategies.
Tonight you bring the show to me! Share what’s on your brain, kick back and listen to some great inspirational Indy Music. I’ll be having a special drive thru, with was a wonderful former guest on my regular Wed Nite RecoveryNow show…Jeff Sebell, whose book is just HOT off the press.Join us as he shares a preview, and see more at www.lapublishing.com/sebell-survivor-support. Host Kim Justus, who you can “Like” at www.facebook.com/inaflash.org 🙂
Want a place to hang & listen to some good tunes…Maybe chat a little as we roll into Sunday? Another Sat Nite and I Ain’t got Nobody… Sing Along! See you there.
Medical science had determined, through doing transplants, that the memory passes at the cellular level, and that every cell in your body knows everything that has ever happened to you in your life. My guest is Mike Carey, who has been active in Alternative Healing for many years. His special “gift” of being able to read bodies, has offered recovery for people all over the world, with many different malady’s. He found out that you can tap into that memory by asking the body questions that can be answered “yes” or “no”, and the body will respond electrically which can then be understood through muscle testing.
Steve Almond spent seven years as a newspaper reporter in Texas and Florida before writing his first book, the story collection My Life in Heavy Metal. His non-fiction book, Candyfreak, was a New York Times Bestseller. His short fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and his most recent collection, God Bless America, won the Paterson Prize for Fiction. Almond writes commentary and journalism regularly for The New York Times Magazine and The Boston Globe. Lately he’s been causing quite a stir in the world of the NFL. A former sports reporter and play-by-play man, Almond lives outside Boston with his wife and three children. See his site at www.againstfootball.org
