morning fellas

Hey, wake up its Monday.🙄

Morning!

Morning, gents. Gotta go to Dallas VA Hospital today for steroid injections. I don’t enjoy the drive but the injections help.

What body part?

Morning all. Packing up and heading home. Let us pray that all Chicago traffic and construction has disappeared 🙏

Just finished edits on a paper examining the impact of TBIs on long term health outcomes among veterans. If the paper moves as slowly as everything else in academia, it might be out in the next 20 years 😂

Good Monday Morning to All! It's a rainy 78° on the way to 85° today.

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Happy Monday!

Cheno must finally have a day off...

Bilateral hip injections this time. I alternate hips one visit and cervical spine the next. The injections really help.

I was part of a research study for TBI. They just collected a lot of information and put me through a battery of cognitive tests. I had a few visits over the course of a year and that was that.

Maybe! Do you have the consent form tucked away somewhere? It was a big ol study from 2019-2020.

No, I don’t. But it was conducted at San Diego Naval Hospital (Balboa) and the name “Jackson” was in the group that ran the study. That group worked out of UCSD and interfaced with the Navy a lot. The study I was part of was around 2011 or 2013, something like that.

Regular work schedule now. Should be no ot for the next 12 weeks. Let's hope no crazy storms come and screw it up

There was a 2011 wave! Did you happen to do any genetic testing? If so, you might be part of my masters thesis haha

No, they didn’t do any genetic testing. They collected information on the TBI event, located the original paperwork and scanned my medical records for any symptoms that they thought were related to the injury. I have nerve damage from that whole thing so they had a bunch of crap to collect lol

Glad people are looking into it more and the medical community is treating it a lot more seriously.

I had a subdural back in 04 and was told pretty much nothing. They acted like it was nothing. I was discharged on my own. I remember being in the parking lot and not knowing what car I drove. Thankfully I didn't drive my car to the hospital after the motorcycle wreck, but I called my buddy to pick me up and asked him where my Subaru was. I don't remember doing this, he told me about it later. I had wrecked my Subaru 2 years prior to this and had a Ford Escort at the time.

I have almost no memory of the week surrounding the crash. When I reenrolled in college I had to drop all my classes just a few weeks in for lesser courses because I couldn't keep up. For YEARS afterward I had major memory issues. Still to this day I can't speak as well as I did back before the crash, often the wrong words entirely comes out of my mouth. I do a lot better with written speech. I ended up spending nearly 8 years in college for a bachelors degree. Granted some of it was due to being a high school dropout and needing to take some courses they wouldn't test me out of but I was maintaining a 3.9 up until that point entering my junior year of premed biochem.

But there was no rehab, no followup instructions, just you're on your own. Now I work at the hospital where I'd been admitted after the crash. We have a dedicated neuro ICU, stroke rehab teams, a concussion clinic, and protocols to help patients after a TBI. I had personality changes, speech changes, memory issues and stuff. And somehow was supposed to just kinda figure it out.

^man, that a rotten deal. You’re blessed not to have injured yourself driving home or having some kind of episode later. Glad you’re able to have a productive life and I hope you have no more troubles with it.