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Avila Beach Music Festival. 1 day only: June 14, 2009. Hurry! Tickets are going fast.
Please support our intellectually challenged population
and have fun while you're at it.

My site is dedicated to showing that anyone, even brain injury survivors, can design and build their own home on the web. For those who need a little help, I design and build websites for a reasonable fee. For my fellow survivors, my help with building their own web pages is free of charge.

I particularly enjoy working with the graphics element of website construction. This site began as homework for a class I was taking through Zdnet University, later known as Smart Planet. The background is the very first seamless tile I made with Paint Shop Pro, a very user friendly image editing program.
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TBI Reunions

Here you may view pictures of tbichat.org OHIO Birthday Bash 2000, a long weekend spent discovering how similar, and how different from other people, we brain injury survivors really are.

My Poetry

Enjoy several of
My Published Poems which I've framed using Paint Shop Pro.

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I love taking pictures, especially with my digital camera. No wasted film and I can print only the best shots. I use it for taking pictures of all kinds of ojects or scenes to make backgrounds, tubes, and textures, as well as recording memories with my family.

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Featured Head or Brain Injury Books

The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Workbook: Your Program for Regaining Cognitive Function and Overcoming Emotional Pain by Douglas J. Mason

Head Injury:
The Facts:
A Guide for Families and Care-Givers
Read 15 pages online at Amazon.com

Brain Injury Rehabilitation:
Adaptive Driving After Traumatic Brain Injury (Professional Series, Vol 5)

Conquering the Darkness:
One Woman's Story of Recovering
from a Brain Injury
by Deborah A. Quinn

One of the few things I learned from my doctors was that many brain injury survivors acquire Attention Deficit Disorder. We have a lot in common with ADD adults. This book is filled with helpful ideas and workarounds for reorganizing your life.

Brain Injury Email Support Groups

If you are a brain injury surviver, know someone who is or are a caregiver for a stroke victim or brain injury survivor, then these support groups are for you. It took me years to learn all the information that is regularly shared in these groups. Join with others who do know exactly what you are going through.

Brain injury links and resources

Brain injury transition issues: Getting back to the real world.

Additional Book Recommendations

"I Can Remember,"

 written by Gerry Olin Greengrass 
for her father who was himself a stroke survivor.
 This daily journal is helpful in the early stages
 of recovery. By writing daily activities in this workbook,
you can keep track of your progress,
 as well as regain your memory,
 reading, and writing skills.

Read a doctor's own story of traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Osborn's web site

Dr. Diane Roberts Stoler has also written a book based upon her own experiences and research on brain injury. She knows probably better than anyone that *mild* brain injury does not in any way mean "minor."

This book has over 30 sample pages online at Amazon.com

Dr. Stoler's home page

Another trait brain injury survivors share with ADD adults seems to be a tendency toward increased creativity.

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