Brain injury survivors face tough time with acceptance
Nevada resident Michael Smith was retrieving files on a warehouse dock on Feb. 6, 1990, when a worker attacked him. A cerebral hemorrhage from the beating left him with brain damage that changed his life. Trauma during the attack caused injuries in other parts of the brain, an ordeal that put him in and out of rehabilitation for more than three years. "My injury cost my parents over $250,000 in the first two years alone," he said. "In my case, I became a burden. After years of my mother trying to help me, she sent me to California. Right now, I'm getting paid by my mom not to be home." Smith's parents were divorced and he spent a year in California with his father, before he was deserted in a California campground.
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