Thanx for the update. Thoughts and prayers stream for him here. I was just thinking about Shawn yesterday....while scrolling thru the FBabSr thread .....tilting my head skyward in an inqisitive manner....and wondered..... WWSHD (or say)? I gar-un-tee the entertainment value, as well as the moral value would be high
Keep the wanker in your thoughts. Come back, you tough SOB. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11671708 -jim
Prayers sent, but I'm imagining what Shaun would post here in reply to this thread about Dr's telling him he won't do something some day. It's just not in his nature to stop.
Wiki P DAI is difficult to detect since it does not show up well on CT scans or with other macroscopic imaging techniques, though it shows up microscopically. Unlike brain trauma that occurs due to direct impact and deformation of the brain, DAI is the result of traumatic shearing forces that occur when the head is rapidly accelerated or decelerated, as may occur in auto accidents, falls, and assaults.[5] It usually results from rotational forces or severe deceleration. Vehicle accidents are the most frequent cause of DAI; it can also occur as the result of child abuse[6] such as in shaken baby syndrome.[7] The major cause of damage in DAI is the disruption of axons, the neural processes that allow one neuron to communicate with another. Tracts of axons, which appear white due to myelination, are referred to as white matter. Acceleration causes shearing injury: damage inflicted as tissue slides over other tissue. When the brain is accelerated, parts of differing densities and distances from the axis of rotation slide over each other, stretching axons that traverse junctions between areas of different density, especially at junctions between white and grey matter.[2] Two thirds of DAI lesions occur in areas where grey and white matter meet.[2] DAI currently lacks a specific treatment beyond what is done for any type of head injury, including stabilizing the patient and trying to limit increases in intracranial pressure (ICP).
I don't believe that. His will has been proven to be odds defying. Thoughts and prayers still coming for you and your loved ones Kiwi.
As someone else said, damn, just damn. We're still pulling for you bud and praying for you! Let's get cracking!
TBI's are like SCI's. Each one is different and you never know if, what, or when you will get something back. But, there is no timeline just like with my injury and one day the fog could lift and he could be much better. I never talked about it, but I also had an internal head injury in my crash. For the first 5 months I could tell something wasn't right but tried to hide it since I wanted to go back to work. I couldn't read and comprehend it. Then, on a Wednesday morning in mid October I woke up and could tell my brain was different. Just like that. It was really weird.
He never used the whole thing anyway, it'll make new roads for him and he'll be back to "normal" eventually.
I've known a lot of riders with the same thing. They know something is not quite right but not sure what - usually extreme emotional reactions to things occur as well. If you know them you can tell easily. Then yeah, one day the switch gets flipped and back to normal. Kind of scary and cool all at the same time.
I think I got back most everything in my head but my memory isn't quite as good as before. Not sure if that is simply getting older though.