I haven’t updated on the recovery-from-eye-surgery front in awhile. Here’s one. The first week of May, I had to go to the GO area in Union Station to buy a Presto card for the TTC. Why? Because the TTC in its disability-and-poverty-and-non-online-people hating wisdom, haven’t installed machines that take cash. At their in-station Gateways, you… Continue reading Fording Union Station for TTC Presto Card
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Seventeen Years with a Brain Injury
A Twitter of a crash anniversary blog post this year. Mocha in one hand, croissant flaking all over me, and iPhone in the other, for over an hour, I tweeted: 17 years. Creeping up to 20. Hard to believe this time 17 years ago, I had less than 3 hours to live without a #braininjury… Continue reading Seventeen Years with a Brain Injury
Cogmed to Train Working Memory — An Experiment to Help Post-Brain Injury Reading Rehab
I’ve begun Cogmed to train my working memory, that brief moment you hold something in memory in order to accomplish a task or store a piece of knowledge before you forget then scratch your head as you futilely try to remember what you were doing or reading. The folks at the ADD Centre had told… Continue reading Cogmed to Train Working Memory — An Experiment to Help Post-Brain Injury Reading Rehab
Medicine Admits Concussions Bad but Still Doesn’t Understand
I read an article in The Toronto Star recently titled “A Blow to the Head is a Big Deal” by Megan Ogilvie (8 April 2011), and I knew I had to read it. It wasn’t long before I was grumbling and had to comment on it. So here are some excerpts with my thoughts. ““The… Continue reading Medicine Admits Concussions Bad but Still Doesn’t Understand
Entraining the Brain the Audiovisual Way
My first encounter with audiovisual entrainment (AVE) was in a psychologist’s office. He handed me a pair of what looked like goggle-sized mirrored sunglasses (Omniscreen), but I couldn’t see through them. Instead, a translucent plastic screen covered the inside of the glasses, behind which lay LED lights, four to each lens. He then handed me… Continue reading Entraining the Brain the Audiovisual Way
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Reviews for Concussion Is Brain Injury “very good book good reading” John Albarado, Reader, gives Concussion Is Brain Injury 4 stars on Goodreads “Even though I worked with children who had brain injuries I found myself failing to understand some of shrieen’s frustrations and struggles and that is why I jumped at the chance to… Continue reading Reviews