After a catastrophic car accident that left him in a coma, Simon Lewis found ways to recover — physically and mentally — beyond all expectations. At the INK Conference he tells how this remarkable story led him to concern over all threats to consciousness, and how to overcome them.

Don’t Take Conciousness for Granted

CFLer Graeme Bell with the Edmonton Eskimos suffered from brain injury from a violent episode years ago but he’s still going strong. On May 7th he’ll be the key note speaker at TCU Place at the Saskatchewan Brain Injury Association Fundraising Dinner, educating people about how he made it through his difficult battle. We talk to him about what it takes to make it through a brain injury.

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My accident happened July 31, 2009. I was rollerblading when I stumbled on some small rocks. I got my balance and was rolling backward, just about to turn and……
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Five Crazy Guys – A CBC Radio Documentary Series about Brain Injuries, Survivors and some Pretty Crazy Stuff

Injured couple on long road to recovery
BY KELLY EGAN, OTTAWA CITIZEN JANUARY 7, 2011

‘You know,” says Rev. Anthony Bailey, “Joe is the kind of guy who’d give you the shirt off his back,” he said Thursday — then pausing, perhaps for originality.

“And then his pants and his shoes.”

Joe is Joe Sayer. He turns 36 this weekend, which is cause for celebration.

In February, it was unclear whether he and his wife, Beverley Sunday, 31, would live to see another season, let alone another year.

They were critically injured in a car accident on Feb. 19 along Lucerne Boulevard in Gatineau.
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Craig lives in Gander, Newfoundland.

Here is his story: Craig Dunn’s Story

You can write to Craig at c.dunn@nl.rogers.com

Written By: Frank Toral
My Child Has a Brain Injury, What do I do now? (pdf)
MyChildHasaBrainInjury.com

My name is Michael Coss and the following publications carried my story. In the midst of my rehab, I decided to venture into something I never thought I’d do, write my own book. It is on pace and scheduled to be available early in 2011. My goal is to give hope and inspiration to other brain injury survivors and their families and educate the general public about the benefits of HBOT oxygen.

Respectfully yours,
Michael Coss
The Coquitlam Now Article
The Courage to Come Back by Michael Coss
Dernieure Heure
2009 Summer Headline

As my shift work ended at midnight, I was aware of inebriated drivers taking advantage of the percieved window of opportunity created by the change in shift of Police road surveillance to scoot home without incurring a D.U.I. consequence. I thought by being very vigillant, keeping to the same route, wearing a cycling helmet and safety vest with retroreflective stripes and having lights front and back, I had stacked the odds in my favour. The driver who hit me was a student of different statistics.She had divided attention, driving with friends. She ran a red light hitting me broadside. I was a hit and run victim.

A witness called 911. An Ambulance and first response team had been strategically stationed close by. It was instantly decided to initiate Scoop and Go Procedure. I had no blood pressure pulse or breathing. To break the femur, the strongest bone in the body requires 2,500 LBS. of force. My right femur was in several pieces.
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By Michelle Kearns, NEWS STAFF REPORTER, The Buffalo News

It took four people to gently guide Victor Hale Schramm out of his motorized wheelchair so he could stretch and settle onto Stoney, a stocky, grayish-brown horse with long lashes who one volunteer imagines would smoke cigars if he could.

From up high, Schramm’s head leaned toward one side as he held the reins while the horse neighed. He likes to take in the scene at the therapeutic horse riding center in Aurora, where people with handicaps learn to ride. It is named Lothlorien, after the magic forest refuge in the “Lord of the Rings” stories, but the scene of the stable and the horses in the pasture makes Schramm feel like he’s in a West-ern movie.

Being here makes life seem normal again for Schramm, 46. “It makes me feel able,” he said in the electronic voice that speaks what he types on the keyboard attached to his chair.

Of the process that led Schramm to fit his shiny black boots in the stirrups, his instructor Michele Kray observed, “We think he’s going to fall, but he knows what he’s doing.”

On this afternoon, it was hot enough to make Schramm uncomfortable. The sun beat down at 80 degrees. The day had a disconnected, out-of-sync beginning. His van service had come too early. He had been stuck waiting for an hour or so as the men from the Finger Lakes group homes finished lessons.

Continue reading: In the saddle on life’s tricky ride