This book is a must read for brain injured persons, their family members, friends, and care providers, as well as all professionals, (Physicians, Psychologists, Counselors, Lawyers, Emergency Medical professionals, families & patients, etc.). Anyone that even potentially has any contact with a person with a brain injury will benefit from this hard to put down, easy to read & understand book. It is humorous in places but educational, enlightening & informative throughout.A TBI is too often unrecognized and misunderstood. As a medical clinician with extensive Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine experience, and myself being brain injured several years ago, I know that many brain injured persons go without adequate diagnosis or treatment. The physical and psychosocial changes that a brain injured person and their families & friends face are frequently undiagnosed, misunderstood, and improperly treated. The statistics on brain injuries are alarming. I strongly encourage laypersons and professionals alike to read this book. Thank you Dr. Osborn.
Her personality has provided a readable as well as informative work.
In the head injury group I learned each injury is different and the manifestations may not be the same for each one of us. The solutions have to be drawn from many sources. I appreciate that Osborn's account included as much of the literature does, an emphasis on the danger of substance abuse including alcohol for a brain injured person.
Her description has articulated what many tbi survivors are unable to do for themselves: to tell their own story.