Jamie's Real-time Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Blog
Jamie Randall Hatcher is a budding author and a traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivor of a work-related insult. When Jamie sustained multiple hematomas and sub-arachnoid bleeds in practically every lobe of his brain, he was engaged to be married, intending on attending college in the fall, and he had just joined his fiancé’s church. While doctors at the Medical Center of Virginia (MCV) where an excellent neuroscience intensive care unit (ICU) is located felt that Jamie would be a vegetable and require a few series of re-incubation – he, instead, showed remarkable recovery rates.
In fact, after a 5.5 week coma, Jamie began the intensive therapy to learn to eat, talk, walk and mitigate life as an individual. Today, Jamie resides in a group home with other TBI survivors while he is undergoing additional therapy. TBI survivors know that therapy is an ongoing adventure and re-adventure as there are mountains and plateaus throughout the healing process.
It has been nearly seven years since Jamie’s work-related injury and he is doing better than average at this time. Jamie started a book early on in his recovery, but shelved it for a while. In revisiting an old laptop we found his earlier writs and talked it over. Jamie decided the blog may aid him in sharing the good words on post-TBI recovery and the how-to’s based on his experience.
And, there are funny chapters of the day-to-day that come from residing in a therapeutic environment. While Jamie will change names to protect the innocent, the stories will be shared here in an amusing and entertaining manner.
Thank you for being here and for participating with Jamie’s Real-time Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
