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Angela E.
Update 12/29/03
Hey all I'm just trying to update my email address, I am now living in Maryland. Going to start looking for work soon. Still have some pain in right knee as it alwauys hyper extends when I walk so therefore tears the ligaments---OWY! If anyone has any helpful hints about that please contact me ok? thanks, Angela

Update 04/28/00
Hello all, I'm trying to update this. I received therapy, physical, occupational, and speech once I was on Medicare. It's really a shame that the system makes you wait 2 years, time wasted. Recovery time. Anyway, I am out of all 3 therapies now. Walk with a cane now, I can walk without it but not for very long distances.

I really should do the exercises for my right arm, because I still haven't gotten much use back in it. But they are hard, only because I'm impatient and rather just do it and get it done, so I use my left automatically.

I have always been very bright, upbeat, and still am. I work now, full time. Absolutely love my job, and the people there.

They all love my laugh and attitude. I just love life and nothing is really that bad, now come on, is it? No.

Well, take care all.

Original Story
Hello my name is Angela E. and I guess I am a TBI survivor. I didn't know that my condition had a name and is in it's own category.

I am 28 years young. I don't walk yet, but I refuse to be confounded to a damn wheelchair. I can walk, just not as well as I used to.

On August 24, 1996 me and my boyfriend Ron were driving back to Vegas from Laughlin and we had to drive through Bullhead City. Well some twit/moron ran a stop sign and hit my side of the car.

I was the passenger (I don't drive) and I wasn't wearing my seat belt. But an officer at the crash site said if I was wearing one then that may have ended up killing me, because the way her car hit ours.

Any ways there were 7 guys in her car plus her, and me and Ron in mine. All of them just got measley cuts and bruises, me, I got knocked unconscious into a coma. Which is what I stayed in for almost 4 months.

Ron never came to the hospital and neither did that twit who hit me. I can't believe someone almost kills somebody else and doesn't ever bother to see if their o.k.!

I don't remember any of it. Coming out of my coma or anything. I just remember being in a hospital and then being transfered into a rehabilitation home. Where I stayed at for a month and a half.

My life is totally different now. Having to ask someone, anyone, for the simplest things. That really bothers me.

But I have come a long way, I think. It's been a little over 2 years since the car accident. I have lost my motor functions on the right side of my body so that means I have relearned how to write with my left hand.

I had a Tracheotomy (I'm not sure how to spell that word) so I could breath. And I couldn't eqat solid foods while I was in Rehab. and also couldn't talk for awhile. I talk now but very slowly.

Because of the way our damn Government is I can not get any public assistence (health insurance) so I haven't been in Therapy for over a year. So I kind of do my own Therapy at home, with myself. I figure anything is better then nothing.

Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Ha-Ha!