Anyone catch the Bob Woodruff special tonight?

[SteelBlue]

What an amazing recovery he's made. I've been working with patients with TBI for almost 10 years and I'm not sure I've ever seen somebody look and sound as well as he does after an injury that severe.

He did a good job of bringing the issue of the number of serious injuries, especially TBI, among our soldiers to light. We only hear about deaths, but the number of soldiers seriously injured is quite high.

[UtahDan]

Originally Posted by SteelBlue

What an amazing recovery he's made. I've been working with patients with TBI for almost 10 years and I'm not sure I've ever seen somebody look and sound as well as he does after an injury that severe.

He did a good job of bringing the issue of the number of serious injuries, especially TBI, among our soldiers to light. We only hear about deaths, but the number of soldiers seriously injured is quite high.

I worked for a brief time for a TBI charity. It is amazing the impact such injury has has. Before I always thought about people who were turned into vegatables. While that does happen, many more remain functional but their personalities undergo a radical transformation, they develop severe emotional problems, they have impulses that they never had before and struggle to control, etc.

The brain is maybe as complex a structure as anything on the earth. There are endless ways the damage it suffers expresses itself.

[BlueHair]

As I watched, I found myself feeling more sorry for the wives of the wounded men. Most are in their early twenties and have a lifetime of caring for their husbands ahead of them. I'm a little embarrassed that I feel more sympathy toward the healthy wives.

[SteelBlue]

Originally Posted by BlueHair

I'm a little embarrassed that I feel more sympathy toward the healthy wives.

Don't be. Your perception is correct in many of these cases. They bear a heavy burden.