Severe head injury over 12 years ago now, I think.
Long proven that the 2 year window that doctors give for any healing to happen is utterly and completely wrong.
Did’t start sleeping more than 2 hours at a time until the 5th year. BTW, the sleep-wake cycle is incredibly complex, i didn’t know until i read about it to understand what was wrong. I NEVER thought i would sleep 7 hours again. But the Brain FIGURES OUT A WAY.
Relations with wife weren’t possible until after 4 years (we’re all adults here :) ) Which means some part of the limbic system either rewired or repaired, I’m guessing.
Surreal feeling like left side of head was going to just fall off took 6 years to go away.
Took 4 years to get typing from 19 wpm back to 100wpm.
What is the HARD part about a brain injury is the headaches, and the tremors, and the pain elsewhere, and the night terrors occasionally...all caused by DAMAGED cells and Scientists ARE working now to SHUT THOSE DOWN so the suffering they cause ends.
The money to house and feed and educate illegals could partially go towards finding answers and finding them faster for or 100,000 brain injured vets who are living, along with their families, a lifetime of hell.
and many of their injuries make mine look like a walk in the park.
BTW, I was on SSDI for SIX years and it was All Healing time. The last few years on it towards the end weren’t because I liked living off of 2600 dollars a month (SSDI max) compared to what I was making before that.
I am thankful it was there, but I would guesstimate 30 percent don’t belong on it.
Working, I think, 6 years now. Memory isn’t what it was because before all this i wouldn’t be unsure of how long I was working somewhere!
But I will take what God gave me back!!
It has been known for decades that removal of even large parts of the brain at an early age just redirect the function of what would have mapped to that region to other locations. It’s called “Plasticity”. Which is why they do the surgery. Interesting but not new knowledge.
Leftards are living proof that a functioning brain is not as important as everyone says it is...
Neuroplasticity - is actually not just the “remapping” of neural connections in the brain, it is the way the brain works. The brain’s functions are “plastic” - able to change.
From the beginning, the brain is “programmed” by the tasks we demand of it. Yes, it’s chemistry writes the code in the brains own “language”, but our tasks - what we ask the brain to do for us - are the assignments the brain is given.
That makes the brain in some ways like a muscle - it as good as the exercise you give it. Almost any concerted exercise directed towards or using a muscle can improve it. Almost any “thinking” skill the brain is tasked with can improve by demanding it keep trying to do that skill better.
Education is one fourth the teachers and three fourths the student.
A brain is a horrible thing to waste, because it has much more skill than most people ask of it.
This doesn't always work. Idiot Joe Biden had a chunk of his brain cut out back in 1988 after an aneurysm and Doctors told him he had "less than a 50% chance of being completely normal", and guess what? They were right!
I seriously doubt that under Nuclear Weapons System Safety Rules that he would be allowed to handle nuclear weapons under any circumstances, yet he was Hussein 0bama's VP and now wants to be Commander in Chief.