Wednesday, December 30, 2020

 


12/30/20 
I got my 4 year degree in Human Services. That was in 12/8/18. 
My youngest son of 3 children passed away in 8/3/17. It was 3 years ago. He was only 17 years old. It is very sad. He was a donor. I do volunteer stuff for donate life. He died of a sudden cardio arrest. It was undiagnosed. He was a soccer player , trumpet player , smart student , and Boy Scout. I miss him. He is in my heart. He will never be forgotten. 
We - my husband and I moved to Florida June 2020. We love Florida . 
Many changes. 
I go to grief support groups.

Friday, January 6, 2017

New news

Hello.
I haven't written in about five years and now many things have changed and one of them is that I am going back to college again to get my four year degree.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

It is a learning for everyone about head inj-
ury and each case is different depending on where your head got hurt.
www.youtube.com
Hay House Publishing Submission 2011 New York Movers & Shakers Event Dr. Nicole M. Eastman, D.O. Go into her website and see her speaking on you tube and her other info.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Sunday, November 21, 2010

facebook group

I opened a facebook group called

brain injury support, any new knowledge and chat

Try it- write any questions, problems, new insights, and any brain injury related stuff...

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

http://www.internalmedicinenews.com/news/neurology/single-article/vitamin-e-may-help-traumatic-brain-injury-patients/1371ae972c

Neurology

Vitamin E May Help Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

By: LAIRD HARRISON, Internal Medicine News Digital Network
11/05/10

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Major Finding: The in-hospital death rate from traumatic brain injury following a course of high doses of vitamin E was 20%, compared with 30% and 29% with low- and high-dose vitamin C and 33% with placebo.
Data Source: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of 100 patients with Glasgow Coma Scale scores of 8 or less.
Disclosures: The study was funded by a grant from the Iranian National Elite Foundation.
High doses of vitamin E significantly decreased in-hospital mortality following a traumatic brain injury in the first-ever randomized, controlled clinical trial of this treatment.
High doses of the vitamin cut in-hospital mortality from traumatic brain injury (TBI) by 29% relative to the overall mortality of patients who received treatment with low or high doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) or placebo. The study also showed the benefits of high-dose vitamin C in stabilizing or reducing the diameter of perilesional edema and infarct, according to Dr. Ali Razmkon, a neurosurgery resident at the Shiraz (Iran) University of Medical Sciences, who presented the study at the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, held in San Francisco.
The theory behind the study is that lipid peroxidation causes secondary damage in head injuries. "There are well-documented reports about vitamin C in human stress in many conditions, including common cold and stroke," Dr. Razmkon said in an interview after the meeting. "The plasma concentration is reduced. The body needs more and utilizes more."
Previous studies have suggested that vitamin C could reduce the risk of stroke and that vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) could decrease the rate of lipid peroxidation.
To test this theory, Dr. Razmkon and his colleagues at Shiraz enrolled 100 patients (83 men) with traumatic brain injury. The patients all had Glasgow Coma Scale scores of 8 or less and radiologic diagnoses of diffuse axonal injury. The researchers excluded any patients who had significant liver or renal disease, previous head injury, or glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency.
They randomly assigned patients to low-dose intravenous vitamin C (500 mg daily) for 7 days, high-dose intravenous vitamin C (10 g on the day of admission and again on the fourth day, followed by 4 g daily for 3 more days), intramuscular vitamin E (400 IU daily) for 7 days, or placebo. The groups had no significant differences in diagnosis, age, or sex.
During the study, 26 patients died, and 67 (91%) of the remaining 74 patients attended follow-up at 2 and 6 months.
Hospital mortality was significantly lower among patients in the vitamin E group (20%) than it was in the groups receiving low- or high-dose vitamin C (30% and 29%) or placebo (33%). In-hospital mortality was 28% overall in these other three groups. At 6 months of follow-up, no differences in mortality were seen between the vitamin E (30%), low- and high-dose vitamin C (35% and 29%), and placebo groups (33%).
The vitamin E group also had significantly better Glasgow Outcome Scale scores at discharge and at 2 and 6 months of follow-up than did any of the other three groups.
The diameters of the perilesional hypodense regions in the brains of patients taking high-dose vitamin C were stabilized or reduced over the course of 7 days, dropping from a peak mean diameter of 12 mm on the third day after admission to 8 mm on the seventh day. This was significantly different from what was seen in patients in the other groups, which all had perilesional edema that continued to increase in diameter.
The researchers concluded that low-dose vitamin C didn’t affect the patients’ healing but that high doses of the vitamin slowed the progression of perilesional edema, which was likely a result of secondary oxidative insults. Neither dose of vitamin C appeared to affect neurologic outcomes.
For his work on the trial, Dr. Razmkon won the Synthes Resident Award for Research on Brain and Craniofacial Injury.
The study was funded by a grant from the Iranian National Elite Foundation. The investigators reported having no relevant conflicts of interes