Pam Hays

Pam Hays's Blog

  • 31 Day TBI Challenge for CHANGE for Veterans

    The 31 Day Challenge is almost half way through.  Articles for Days 1-14 are now posted. Please take a moment to read some of the articles and learn a bit more about traumatic brain injury and our military veterans.

    http://www.thearmsforces.org/day-13-tbi-challenge-for-change-for-veterans.html

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  • 31 Day TBI Challenge for CHANGE for Veterans

    To further promote advocacy and education during March,  Brain Injury Awareness Month, The Arms Forces nonprofit organization presents the

    31 Day TBI Challenge for CHANGE for Veterans

    Please visit our website below, take the challenge and learn something new every day during the month of March about traumatic brain inj

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  • Thanksgiving Week Reflections- Grateful for TBI

    Thanksgiving Week Daily Reflections....

    Tuesday-

    Do you ever feel "plopped" down in life and not sure why you are where you are at that particular time? April 2009, almost 9 years post injury, I was lost in what seemed like a perpetual cornfield of life. I couldn't see above the stalks of pain, fear...Full Post
  • A Knot In My Stomach, But Joy In My Heart

    I share stories of my own experience with being a severe traumatic brain injury survivor as a way of educating others what TBI looks like in a person's life. A real, raw snapshot look into TBI!  Not all survivors will have the exact same challenges as I do, but there will be varying degrees of them in most. 

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  • Hope- A Key To Recovery

    When traumatic events come into our life, from the very first moment we react in some way.  Most of our initial reactions cause more pain.  But then, as time passes we are faced with a choice of some kind.  We can either make progress or digress.  Do our choices move us foward from the initial pain, or

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  • Life After Traumatic Brain Injury - Goodbye Me, Hello Me

    On September 13, 2000 I experienced both death and life.  But, I didn't even realize all of this until months later.  I had no consciousness of what was going on in my brain as it was slammed repeatedly against my skull as I flew 20 feet in the air off the back of a motorcycle.  That day in September, my broken, bleeding

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