Lethan Candlish Part Seven The key to reintegrating into the community after a TBI is community support. In a town as small as Bloomsburg, everyone knew about Lethan’s brain injury. The community poured out its support to Lethan and his family. His parents were grateful for all of the help, love, and support. In Who(…)
Lethan Candlish Part Eight One of the most striking dramatizations in Lethan’s Who Am I Again is the idea of relearning to walk. This is a theme that resonates among brain injured people. The survivors have to relearn to do something they should already know how to do. This can be frustrating for the survivor.(…)
Lethan Candlish Part Nine The most uplifting part of Lethan’s performance of Who Am I Again is that he wrote and performed it at that level despite surviving a severe traumatic brain injury. Most would hear the word coma and severe traumatic brain injury and automatically think severe memory disorder. Yet, Lethan was able to(…)
Lethan Candlish Part Ten Lethan gives his caregivers and other survivors some advice after severe brain injury. One of the most dramatic element to his story, Who Am I Again, was Lethan’s countdown to the new millenium. He felt like he had been given another chance at life and did not want to waste it. He(…)
Lethan Candlish Part Eleven Who Am I Again is not just the story of one brain injury survivor finding himself again. It tells the stories of his friends from rehab. They also had to find themselves again after severe brain injury. Sarah, one of the characters in Who Am I Again, had made a commitment(…)
In a new study published in The Lancet Neurology, Dr. Daniel Perl found a brown dust pattern in brains of soldiers injured by blasts. These results show that PTSD is probably not just psychological. There are tangible results of brain damage that show up on the brain scan. These results echo a blog that I(…)
This story starts with a phone call made from one army buddy to another. Chris Moroski was injured by a blast that blew up his vehicle and put him in the hospital with a traumatic brain injury. He called his friend Kit Parker to reconnect. They lost touch as one had been deployed to Iraq,(…)
We posted a blog earlier today about the quest to find a cure for brain injury. This might involve blocking the integrin protein or stopping the cascade of events that follow a traumatic brain injury. The team of researchers all participated in the military. However, research such as this can help all people with traumatic(…)
It’s been about six years since Lethan Candlish’s performance of Who Am I Again. He has graduated from college, pursued a master’s in storytelling, and even asked someone to marry him since then. He is also currently living in Pohang, Korea. He moved to Korea about four years ago, living in different places. He didn’t(…)
A new study counts nearly 2 million concussions in kids’ sports and play in the U.S. each year. Researchers say that the numbers are imprecise. This is one reason why we need to have a better measure of concussions in this country. The Institute of Medicine recommends a better surveillance system for concussions nationwide. The(…)