A Recovery Now

My guest tonight will be Dr. David Nilsson, Ph. D, who is a Clinical Neuropsychologist at The NeuroDevelopment Resource Centernear Idaho. David has practiced as a Clinical Neuropsychologist for more than thirty years, evaluating, consulting, and treating children, adolescents, and adults having known or suspected acquired brain injury, neurological disease/disorders, neurodevelopmental/neurobehavi...

Michael Coss is author of The Courage to Come Back:Triumph Over TBI - A Story of Hope (2011), and the inspiration behind the creation of the Michael Coss Brain Injury Foundation. The foundation was created to raise money for kids in financial need for dealing with challenges associated with their brain trauma. All proceeds of Michael's book, go to the foundation and the kids. His father Bob Koss,...

ROBIN J. BLOOM is the author of My Daze of Brain Injury and the expanded sequel Wake Up! We’re Going Home. Robin is a survivor of multiple brain injuries and PTSD. The resulting life lessons, afforded opportunities of great insight and understanding, ultimately leading to her spiritual awakening. Robin shares her story of transformation to offer knowledge and comfort as others are awakening to the...

My guest tonight is Randall Scott O'Brien. He is a TBI Survivor from a motor cycle accident in October of 2010. Like many of us his prognosis was grim, and he was expected to die. At one of the more challenging times, he had to be "warehoused", just to prove that condition wasn't warranted!  With unwavering determination, he has become an incredible thriver, not just a survivor. Join us to hear hi...

My guests for tonight will be Marshele Carter Waddell & Dr. Kelly Orr, PhD, ABPP...Who penned Wounded Warrior,Wounded Home, offering hope & healing for families living with PTSD & TBI. This is a very personal story, with a powerful message. One in three of our Vets are coming home with PTSD. Many of those have also suffered a TBI, which has become the signature injury of this war. See...

  My guest tonight isMichael F Ciafone, author of Silent Cries: Living With a Traumatic Brain Injury. His second book Traveling Forward:Survivng With Traumatic Brain Injury is a brand new release. You can find these books through Lash Publishing at www.lapublishing.org We will also discuss TBI, alcohol, emotions and 12 Steps. This show is a gathering placefor anyone seeking recoveryfrom the challe...

Janelle Breese Biagioni, RPC is an author, speaker, and counsellor with expertise in grief, loss, life transitions and brain injury. Janelle has significant experience with brain injury in her family and she has worked for the last decade as Editor of Headline Magazine and with The Cridge Centre for the Family Brain Injury Services providing community service. She is the author of A Change of Mind...

My guest tonight is Dr. Robert Kuvent, who spent his career as an accomplished foot and ankle surgeon. He's served in at least nine Podiatric professional affiliations, and held positions in sixteenvaried service organizations. To say he was a "Type A" personality, with an exceptionally busy life is an understatement. Then things changed, when his life was turned upside down with a disconcerting d...

Fantastic Frank will be away again. This time he is out @ LAS VEGAS attending a Celebrity Launch Paid event hosted by CLINT ARTHUR.. So once again he has asked the Wednesday night BTR host to fill in for him, the GREAT and BEAUTIFUL KIM JUSTUS. who will be doIng something very special. She just don't know it yet. So be sure that you tune in to her what she has planned. FF This is Kim. I didn't wri...

My guest tonight is Al Condeluci, PhD. He is CEO of UCP/CLASS, a community based support system for folks with all types of disabilities in Pittsburgh, PA.  He holds an MSW and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, where he is on faculty in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and the School of Social Work.  He has authored 7 books, including the acclaimed, Interdependence: The Route...

Rocking and Rapping with LesPaul & Kim on BIRN Tonight join Les Paul Morgan and Kim Justus of Brain Inury Radio. We will be filling in for Keith who is having problems with strained vocal chords but he will becalling in if possible. We're also pinch hitting for our "Brain Buck" gals Penny & Cathy, They will be back for their regularly scheduled show. Keithanthonys TBI story and NDE is rema...

  My guest tonight is David A. Grant. David is a writer based in New Hampshire and the author of Metamorphosis, Surviving Brain Injury. A survivor of a harrowing cycling accident in 2010, David openly shares his experience, strength and hope as a brain injury survivor.  Recently recognized by the Brain Injury Association of America, David's book offers real-world insight into life as a brain injur...

Jas Boothe has served over 13 years in the United States Army and is currently on active duty in the United States Army National Guard. She deployed during the Operation Iraq Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom campaigns and her military career has been dedicated to working with and advocating for Soldiers and their family members. In 2005, she was a single parent in the Army Reserves living in New...

  My guest tonight is Janet Cromer, who is a psychiatric nurse and professional speaker living in Bethesda, MD. Janet is the author of the memoir, Professor Cromer Learns to Read: A Couple's New Life after Brain Injury, which chronicles the seven year period Janet shared with her husband after he suffered a severe anoxic brain injury. For more information, please visit www.janetcromer.com.  Janet...

In January of 1989 Mike Strand suffered a severe brain injury followed by a 10 day coma after his pick-up was broadsided by a semi-truck. He was in the hospital for 8 weeks and had a lengthy recovery. After the first year he had completed all his rehab therapy, but as we all know, he was far from recovered. He has spent the past 24 years steadily improving himself. Since 1998 he has been a regular...

My guest tonight is Tonia Wittkower. Her husband David, is a film makerwhose work has been featured on TLC, History, Discovery, PBS and several other notable channels. He has won 21 film festival awards for excellence in film making. One of the most personal films he's done is called TBI: One Woman's Journey, about his wife. In 1980, Tonia's life was changed forever. This DVD follows Tonia beyond...

My guest tonight isMichael F Ciafone, author of Silent Cries: Living With a Traumatic Brain Injury. His second book Traveling Forward:Survivng With Traumatic Brain Injury is a brand new release. Michael's books are his memories of the injury, and his experience with life afterward. He wrotethese books to inspire people to not give up the fight, even though there are obstacles. He wants other survi...

Tonight Kevin & Marvelous Maggie are attending the Washington State TBI Conference, so they won't be here. He will be giving a full report next week!! Open mic to chat tonight, or just sit back and listen to some tunes. Kevin is WTF...I'm TGIF!!  (KimJ)  Join me... With more and more people being diagnosed each day with a Brain Injury as a result of truama, unemployment is on the rise. It was...

My guest tonight is Kimberly Chapman. In 2004, she suffered two ruptured aneurysms. In 2010 the aneurysm spread. Join us tonight to hear her compelling story, and her subsequent participation in the Joe Niekro Foundation. Kim will be hosting a program with us starting next month, so stop by and meet her. :)   This show is a gathering placefor anyone seeking recoveryfrom the challenges of life on l...

Last week we heard from the father, Ian McCallum who wrote From Cradle to Grave and Back, a book for professionals and caregivers. This week we will hear from his son, Andrew McCallum. Andrew McCallum experienced a traumatic brain injury in April of 2008 when he was 32, which resulted in a variety of physical injuries and including a craniotomy.  He was able to return to work 2 years later but wen...

My guest tonight is Ian (Powell) McCullum, author of From Grave to Cradle to Now -The Health Care Professional Edition. The book is a father’s account of his families journey with a traumatically brain injured son, who they were told would die imminently.  Written by a health care neophyte, with the assistance of health care professionals, the book addresses—separately and together—both families a...

Robert Fraser, Ph. D is a professor in the University of Washington's Dept of Rehabilitation Medicine, jointly with the Departments of Neuro Surgery, Neurology, and consultant to the Social Security Admin. Dr. Fraser is a certified rehab counselor & life care planner. He directs Neurological Vocational Services within Rehab Medicine, specializing in brain injury, epilepsy and MS. He has co-aut...

Revised from last week's tech difficulty My guest tonight is Ian R. Elliot. On May 16 1994, Ian fell asleep at the wheel going 80mph and woke up over three  weeks later, in a Billings Hospital, with a major traumatic brain injury. He has since dedicated his life to thriving, not just surviving. Now helping others to do the same. Ian is a trained rehabilitation counselor and often utilizes the arts...

Prison:  A place or condition of confinement, restraint or captivity.  I'm not referring to breaking the law or jail time, but those self imposed feelings, that cause us to become prisoners in our own minds. What are they, and what can we do to rediscover the keys to the kingdom? Freedom equals choice. Let's set our minds free! Open mics and music tonight too. :) This show is a gathering placefor...

Tonight our host Kim Jeffersen Justus goes head to head with fellow host Kiethanthony as they cross swords interviewing each other about Traumatic Brain Injuries.   For homework watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHyR4ZzA2R0 then listen to the show to discover the relevence.   Host is Kim Justus, author of In a Flash: Miracles Here and Beyond found at www.inaflash.org   This is your opportunity...