Injured Mind, Shattered Dreams: Brian's Journey from Severe Head Injury to a New Dream

By Janet Miller Rife

Book Overview

This is the story of Brian, a college student headed for a normal adulthood whose car strikes a lightpole. The direct impact when his head hits the windshield causes severe brain injury. His life... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914797956
• ISBN13: 9780914797951
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Brookline Books
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Brings back vivid memories

My own daughter came to Mt. Vernon Hospital less than a year after Brian. Both of them suffered a catastrophic brain injury. Reading this book by his mother, I can vividly see many of the people at the hospital and can empathize with what the Rife family experienced, not just because I had similar experiences, but because this is an incredibly interesting, inspirational, and well-written book, enlivened by Brian's own responses to what he lost and what he experienced as he struggled to find a place back in the world. I highly recommend it, and especially hope that you would buy a new edition if you can afford to since the money from the sale of the book goes directly to Brian.

Penetrating insight into traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Janet Rife eloquently conveys her and her family's experiences in working to help her son Brian to recover from devastating traumatic brain injury. Girded by faith, Ms. Rife lays out the details of Brian's injury, his several close calls, and her and her son's persistent effort to regain the shattered dreams of a vivid teenager, beset by a severe and long term injury.