Description

Lost in My Mind is a stunning memoir describing Kelly Bouldin Darmofals journey from adolescent girl to special education teacher, wife and mother despite severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Spanning three decades, Kellys journey is unique in its focus on TBI education in America (or lack thereof). Kelly also abridges her mothers journals to describe forgotten experiences. She continues the narrative in her own humorous, poetic voice, describing a victims relentless search for success, love, and acceptance while combating bureaucratic red tape, aphasia, bilateral hand impairment, and loss of memory.
Readers will:

Learn why TBI is a silent illness for students as well as soldiers and athletes.

Discover coping strategies which enable TBI survivors to hope and achieve.

Experience what its like to be a caregiver for someone with TBI.

Realize that the majority of teachers are sadly unprepared to teach victims of TBI.

Find out how relearning ordinary tasks, like walking, writing, and driving require intense determination.

This peek into the real-life trials and triumphs of a young woman who survives a horrific car crash and struggles to regain academic excellence and meaningful social relationships is a worthwhile read for anyone who needs information, inspiration or escape from the isolation so common after traumatic brain injury.
Susan H. Connors, President/CEO, Brain Injury Association of America

Kelly Bouldin Darmofals account is unique, yet widely applicable: she teaches any who have suffered TBI-and all who love, care for, and teach theminsights that are not only novel but revolutionary. The book is not simply worth reading; it is necessary reading for patients, poets, professors, preachers, and teachers.
Dr. Frank Balch Wood, Professor Emeritus of Neurology-Neuropsychology, Wake Forest School of Medicine

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From the Reflections of America Series at Modern History Press

Author: Kelly Bouldin Darmofal
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern History Press
Published: 10/23/2014
Series: Reflections of America
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781615992447
Language: English