Doctors and Lawyers on Basketball Court to benefit TBI
New Mexico doctors and lawyers faced off against each other on a court, but it is not in litigation, it’s on a basketball court to raise money and awareness for Traumatic Brain Injury. The Friends Helping Friends support group hosted its 22nd annual charity Doctors vs. Lawyers basketball game April 24th. In this court battle everyone wins. The game raised enough money last year to send people to a state conference to educate them about traumatic brain injury, what resources are available and the latest research and treatment. One of the support group’s participants is Heather Hales, she is married to Tyson who sustained a traumatic brain injury in 2000 while working in an underground coal mine in Utah. Tyson spent three months in a medically induced coma and once he awoke he spent an additional two years of rehabilitation. “I feel the effects of the injury every day,” he said. “I always have to write down everything because I have no short-term memory. I listen. My hearing is fine. I pay attention, but I just can't remember things.”
