Kim’s Radio Shows

A promising young student is cut down by manic depression.  Soon after, his car is T-boned by a tractor trailer in a snowy highway collision, making his existing instability many times worse.  His marriage with a Russian wife comes under unbearable strain.  How he emerges from all this to return to normal life is the exciting story of Broken Mind, Persistent Hope. Author and survivor, Thomas Hartmann will be my guest, sharing his exceptional experience. For more information see www.healingminefield.com

“The best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray.” John Steinbeck

No matter how well you plan something, always expect the unexpected. Just because you think you’ve done all you can for something to go as planned, doesn’t guarantee that will be the outcome. Do you have a “Plan B”?

Dr. Adrian Harel, is owner and president of MediCortex, operating in Israel and the US. Now in the R&D stage, the company’s goal is to bring a new multifunctional drug or innovative treatment to the market that will prevent or reduce secondary accelerated symptoms of traumatic brain injury and neurological dysfunction. Dr. Harel was educated primarily in Israel, earning advanced degrees in both Neurobiology and Business. He has worked in the field of Biotechnologies and Stem Based Therapies for over a decade. New research shows that a traumatic brain injury, even a mild one, can trigger an earlier onset of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease. To date, there is no drug designed specifically to treat TBI. See www.medicortex.com

Tonight we’ll talk about the therapeutic effect that music has, listen to some great Indy Artists, and hear your experience with music as a cathartic tool of recovery. Call in and discuss your thoughts about music, what music stirs inside your soul, and have some fun. After all, it’s Saturday Night! 🙂 If you’re around, “Let’s Party”! Come and hang out, call in, or tune in and enjoy! Open mic discussion about your brain injury journey, along with very few pearls of wisdom from your host. 🙂 Tonight’s host is Kim Justus, regular Wednesday night host… Ready to jam into the weekend. Bring your dancing shoes. Oh yea!

My guest tonight on Recovery Now, is Barbara J. Webster, author of Lost and Found, A Survivor’s Guide for Reconstructing Life After a Brain Injury, available through Lash Publishing.

In 1991, Barbara suffered a TBI when her car skidded off a slippery road and was totaled. Like so many others, she was not diagnosed properly and suffered the ills of too many  survivors. We will travel through her journey as a brain thriver, as well as her involvement in facilitating the Brain Injury Survivor Support group in Framington since 1995. She also works part time for the Brain Injury Support Association of Massachusetts assisting other support groups, and will discuss the importance of support of like minded people in recovery.

I will be discussing New Year, New Beginnings. Not big on resolutions…More like letting go of old nonproductive thinking, and embracing a new positive focus for change in 2014. Bite size pieces, obtainable to all in recovery.

Will be introducing a new host beginning January 11th & then the 2nd Saturday of each month, Michele Jones. Her show will be called Brain Changers. Her show is for Brain Aneurysm/AVM Survivors, their families, caregivers, and for people who just want to know. This show is to inspire and encourage others to grow, learn, and be apart of living with a brain injury. Stop by the beginning of the show to meet her!

We’ll wind down the long 48 hour holiday, and concentrated seasonal sensory overload, by kicking back, sharing some tunes, and trading some chat. How did your holiday seaso go? Roast those final chestnuts, take in the fire and twinkling lights…And join me. 🙂

Kevin, Maggie & Luke are up to their neck with the “moving blues.” Family on the way and bull baskets, I offered to step in tonight.

With Christmas around the corner, if you feel like getting into the spirit with old friends and new…Tune in to regular Wednesday host Kim Justus this evening. We’ll chat and rock around the holiday clock, in time for her to be back again on Christmas night. 🙂

Call in with your holiday stories of joy and sorrow, good memories or bad. Or, just kick back and listen to some great holiday music. TGIF, WTF?! We’ll try to be FUNctional tonight too.

As an accomplished athlete, author Catherine (Catz) LeBlanc knew the risks of sports injuries. As a physician’s assistant, she knew how the brain and body work. But the concussion she sustained in a team handball game was compounded by a rear end high speed auto-truck collision 2 months later – and her life changed completely. Unable to find the hope, reassurance and inspiration she needed while struggling with her physical and cognitive challenges, she wrote Tell Me This. She captures the complex feelings and emotions that are shared by so many individuals with concussions and brain injuries, but she does this with clever graphics and short phrases or “snippets” that make reading this guide a real pleasure. You will pick it up again and again. Tell Me This: Encouragement and Hope after Brain Injury can be found at Lash Publishing www.lapublishing.com/concussion-recovery-sports-athlete/

CRS Radio Network: Kim Justus suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm in 1995, and then spent 11 days in a coma. It was during that time, that she experience her journey to the other side. She made a journal of what she remembered while recovering, but because she appeared back to normal, buried the journal for seventeen years. In 2012 she finally wrote a book about her experience. We were one of the first to interview her after her book was released. Amazing things have happened for her since then, including becoming a host on Brain Injury Radio. You can find more information about Kim on her website www.inaflash.org or her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/inaflash.org