Patients Recovering from TBI get help from The Hope Project
Bob Lane’s vehicle was hit on a highway and rolled up to six times, but doesn’t remember any of it. About a year later he and his wife noticed he was having difficulty remembering simple things as well as keeping his balance, often falling over without realizing it. “One day, I was writing stuff down and when I read it again, it didn’t make any sense,” Lane said. “I knew what I was writing while I was writing it, but if I read it later it was just a jumble of words.” The symptoms he suffered were easily overlooked and thought to just be a sign of old age. The damage to Lane’s brain is not detectable by an MRI or other brain scanning techniques because the damage is to the brain’s electrical and nervous systems. During one of his hospital visits, he met Dr. Marianne Talbot, founder of the National Rehabilitation and Rediscovery Foundation in Falls Church , Virginia, and learned about The Hope Project, a series of classes and workshops for people living with traumatic brain injury. The Hope Project consists of four, two-hour class sessions each week. Students of all ages and ability levels meet to discuss their difficulties and their goals for living more independent lives.
