Brainstorming Life After Acquired Brain Injury

By Dora Camp

As a result of strokes, aneurysms, brain tumors, auto accidents, and common falls, more than two million people suffer brain injuries each year, making acquired brain injury (ABI) a leading cause of disability. Norm Camp suffered a massive coronary attack that stopped his heart; by the time paramedics could reach him, his oxygen-deprived brain had suffered considerable damage. In minutes, the active skier, golfer, cyclist, tennis player, and vice president of a research and development company had lost the most basic skills: Norm could no longer speak, eat, walk, read, or bathe. Determined to help her husband recover a full and productive life, Dora Camp became his primary caregiver, and thus began a seven-year journey through a well-meaning healthcare system that was ill prepared to handle brain-injured individuals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879384639
• ISBN13: 9781879384637
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Cypress House
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Recommended for family, friends and doctors dealing with brain injury

Brainstorming: Life After Acquired Brain Injury is a touching story. The author describes her life before her husband's brain injury and what has happened in their lives since then. She covers the aftermath of the injury including recovery, defeat, more recovery, new symptoms and coping (or at least trying to) with a life so unlike what it was before. Acquired Brain Injury - it is hard to imagine something that can happen so quickly can have such long term affects. Through her experiences, Dora Camp offers insight, help and hope to those affected by ABI (acquired brain injury). There is a lot of tragedy with such an injury but, as the author so skillfully points out, determination on the caregiver's part could make a difference for the better. "Where there's a will there's a way," as the author states. The last few chapters offer help and advice as found in Camp's search for answers and assistance with her husband's challenges. The book is obviously well thought out. I definitely recommend this book to family and friends who have a loved one affected by this type of injury as well as doctors, nurses and anyone else involved in the medical community.