Commitment, Self help and Healing..

We are now five months down the line and Andrew is still struggling, with coordination, balance etc., but he’s already shown an aptitude and commitment to his physiotherapy programme which was going to serve him well in his own programme of self help and healing which would begin in ernest a year or so later. (In the longer term Andrew would like to publish his improvement programme in full, feeling sure that the details will help others. In the meanwhile these chosen extracts from ten years of diary keeping will hopefully suffice.) Let’s fast forward then and take a look at some extracts from his diary as he progresses. But before we do that....check out a few facts about brain damage statistics.   SOUTH WALES ECHO TUESDAY 20TH July 1993 *About one million people attend hospital every year because of a head injury, and as a result almost 100,000 people in the U.K. suffer from the long term effects of brain damage. *Brain injury occurs most commonly in males between the ages of 17 and 22 with 40 per cent the result of road traffic accidents. Sixteen per cent will have some additional injury. *There are about 80,000 survivors of severe brain injuries in the U.K. *Brain injury is forty times more common than spinal injury, but there is not one centre in the public sector devoted exclusively to brain injury treatment and the rehabilitation of brain injured people. There is no standard brain injury as quite clearly each individual is unique. The kinds of problems that people who have suffered from brain injury might include :- problems with understanding,memory,concentration, seeing ,speaking and thinking.....moodiness, depression, antisocial or aggressive behaviour, difficulty in expressing themselves and changes in sexual drive.

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