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LILIA V ODHNER
Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness :
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Thursday August 21st 2008 2:06:19 PM ET
Good Afternoon. My mom and I lived in scenic Pennsylvania. I acted in local theaters and went to school. My mom worked in finance and ran her small business. All until September 2006 when my mom suffered a traumatic brain injury. ER Doctors in a local hospital chose not to treat her brain trauma and sent her home. Overnight she developed uncontrollable jerking movements, shakes, tremors and slurred speech. Every muscle in her body and face was twitching. The community hospital doctors treated her symptoms, once again ignoring the cause, which was TBI. Medication they gave my mom “to stop shaking” caused her go into convulsions, coma, and a cardiac arrest. During CPR my mom’s heart was dislodged and turned around. After the cardiac arrest she wasn’t able to keep balance, walk or speak.
Our relatives and friends all around the world asked their neurologists about these symptoms. The communal wisdom was to start taking Piracetam or Levetiracetam for hypoxic-anoxic brain trauma and encephalopathy. My mom asked her community hospital neurologist about this treatment. His response was that he was not familiar with the foreign medications. It took four long agonizing months before my mom was diagnosed with action myoclonus. A year later she developed a seizure disorder. Now she takes Keppra (Levetiracetam) for seizures and myoclonus, and Requip for parkinsonism, shakes and tremors and slurred speech. My mom’s story demonstrates that when it comes to Traumatic Brain Injures ignorance of American medical professionals is startling. That’s why I created LILIA V ODHNER Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness . We direct our efforts to elevate the level of knowledge of TBI among medical professionals and the public, promulgating neuroscience and media professionals for their efforts in bringing relief and knowledge of TBI. I Love My Mom.
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