Friday, September 17, 2010

Part Three: Parallels between state spending and suicide rates in Idaho - KPVI News 6 - Pocatello, ID

Part Three: Parallels between state spending and suicide rates in Idaho - KPVI News 6 - Pocatello, ID

Part Three: Parallels between state spending and suicide rates in Idaho - KPVI News 6 - Pocatello, ID

Part Three: Parallels between state spending and suicide rates in Idaho - KPVI News 6 - Pocatello, ID

No TBI support for those of us that are stuck in Pocatello Idaho

Hi,I joined this group, because w.e (Idaho) does not have ANY sort of support group. I suffered severe hypoxia when I was 17 and also traumatic hits to the head.  I have had 5 brain surgeries and I still am here.  I look completely FINE, but my brain is rewired.  People say I am a miracle, but I am a recluse.  No one close understands.  When I speak about having TBI, they tell me it is an excuse.  I did not breathe for almost 15 minutes back in 1974, I had aspirated my stomach contents and had no brain stem activity for 12 hours.  My parent's had planned my funeral.  Throughout my life, I got married, had 3 kids and now I am a grandmother.  Now that my kids are grown and out of the house, I am alone.  Our state is ranked 47 for mental health care, we don't even have a neurologist for a community of 50,000.  I have a PV shunt in my brain and I was life flighted to Utah, where I begged for surgery (inter cranial pressure), but the triage assessed me as a psych patient and put me on the back burner.