William (TBI): Chapter 2 - The accident & initial treatment

Episode 1:  Chapter 2 - William Cole - Recovery from a farm motorcycle accident which resulted in a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) - The accident & initial treatment in hospital.

In the first episode, we meet William Cole, a 25 year old farmer from Bookaar in Western Victoria. William had a farm motorcycle accident in 2017 which resulted in a traumatic brain injury. In this second chapter of the episode, William talks about his accident and we discuss his initial treatment in hospital.

Transcript and show notes are available for each episode on the podcast website: storiesofrecovery.buzzsprout.com

Shownotes:

• 10:50 - The air ambulance flew William to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Have you got an Ambulance Victoria membership? It's possibly the best value membership you'll ever own,
• 14:40 - The article in The Standard newspaper online which includes the images of William's scans (before and after the 12 hour surgery he underwent),
• 16:40 - William was moved to the Epworth Hospital in Richmond following his surgery, to begin his rehabilitation.  He stayed here working with a trauma rehab team for 3 months,
• 16:51 & 18:36 - William's trauma rehabilitation team included: A speech pathologist, a neuropsychologist (another useful description of this speciality here), a psychologist, a physiotherapist, an occupational therapist and a dietician,
• ^18:08 - Make friends with your treaters (the people treating you),
• ^21:00 - Watch movies or tv shows that you enjoy and have seen before with the subtitles and volume both turned on to help your brain reconnect the sound with the word,
• ^22:27 - Time is a great healer.

^William's main tips