President Obama has put the money where his mouth is on veterans
When President Obama took office the budget of the Veterans Administration was 90 billion annually VA Budget numbers for the past decade and for 2011 that included 44.9 billion for entitlements both...
View ArticleTestvets: Use of wounded US troops in drug trial questioned
Testvets{Mike (Beetle) Bailey's Blog}! A never ending, and usually unknown by those soldiers being tested, fact of the Military as they have extremely easy to use subjects where results can be turned...
View ArticleRestoring Hope:
I was going to wait and try and catch the around three pm open thread, but as I'm not doing much but suffering between looking at almost empty, as to anything I can transfer my years of experiences...
View ArticleNorth Wales MP's - U.S. Veterans Courts - PTSD - Justice
An important report on a Europeans review of Veterans, U.S. Veterans Courts, PTSD and Justice and Help for!This is the type of lead the rest of the World used to look to the U.S. for, we were never...
View ArticleTBI and higher ed
I haven't been here in ages, but I am looking for people that might have helpful suggestions and this seemed like the place. I have a new student with a brain injury suffered on active duty. He has...
View ArticleBeing A Voice For Our Veterans
We’ve asked a tremendous amount of the brave men and women serving our country in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of them have been deployed on tour after tour, away from their homes and families for years...
View ArticleConflict TBI: Cognitive Rehab. Therapy Not Covered
Billions have been spent on these Wars of choice! With those Billions spent Billions were made by many, new multi-millionaires with connections were produced as well as a high priced merc private army...
View ArticleSupport wounded troops: Watch the UFC fight on Saturday
The best part: it's free.If you're into this kind of thing, the UFC is putting on another at Fort Hood in Texas. The last time the UFC did one of these events, it raised $4 million that went to the...
View ArticleWe are doing it wrong
Public radio has, as yet, not lost its funding. As a result I just experienced one of those "drive way moments" they talk about.At 8:20 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2010, Iraq veteran Brock Savelkoul decided it...
View ArticleThru a Mirror Dimly: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) & Me
"For now we see things as if in a mirror dimly, and are puzzled, but shall see them full faced when what I have known in part, I know fully, just as I am known by God." 1 Cor., 13:12"You will always...
View ArticleWhy Veterans Matter
President John F. Kennedy taught us:"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
View ArticleCassaundra StJohn: Helping Female Vets to Move Forward
In 1986, at the age of 18, Cassaundra StJohn joined the Air Force. She had grown up in a military family. Her father was a Master Sergeant in the Army, and she respected the values and commitment to...
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Operation Resurrection & Resurrecting Lives: From Movie to Movement
By Marc Erich Wolf, Edited by Jim LuceColumbus, Ohio. Dr. Chrisanne Gordon is building a new army to fight a new war – and that is the war on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) which hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleChronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Don't worry if that term is new to you. It was to me as well, until I just read Veterans and Brain Disease, today's New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof.It is hard for anyone who pays attention...
View ArticleVHA: Where Is the Demand for Country to Sacrifice?
The country, including the FOX and the bushy kombat keyboarders, want the Afghan War to End with roughly the same numbers that supported the walking away from the Main Mission {does anyone see a mass...
View ArticleFormer Pro Linebacker Junior Seau Died from Gunshot Wound
I just found out about an hour ago on the radio. Incredibly shocking news to an outstanding athlete:Junior Seau, a 43-year old 12-time NFL Pro Bowl linebacker, was found dead today in his home, the...
View ArticleIs there a brain surgeon in the house?
My wife is a ticking time bomb...and I don't have either the expertise or the pliers to crimp the wires that are connected to that bomb.She had what's called an AVM about ten years ago...an...
View ArticleVA Tells the Truth About Guns - NRA attacks them
Just as I was posting this first report, found over at Huffington, on my site and finishing it up CBS News started a report on the related issues that the VA put together this pamphlet to be used by...
View ArticleThe Other 1 Percent & the Deaths We Talk Too Little About
Much has been said regarding the wealthiest 1% of Americans who have tremendous economic and political power in this country, but that is another subject for another time. Today I would like to talk...
View ArticlePhotos: Honoring Sgt. Samuel Nichols, USMC
Please see photographs at the link below:Sgt. Samuel Nichols, USMCSam’s Retirement from the Marines August 11, 2012Today was Sam’s retirement ceremony from the Marines. He is officially retired on the...
View ArticleUPDATED: Romney - Residual Impairments from 1968 Brain Injury?
My background in neuropsychology affords me a somewhat unique perspective on Mitt Romney. I’m finding and accumulating evidence that he may show subtle but significant signs of mental impairments from...
View ArticleMitt's MEDICAL RECORDS: shouldn't someone be demanding them?
Shouldn’t the media be demanding Romney’s medical records, in addition to his tax returns?There continues to be a great deal of attention being given Mitt Romney’s tax returns - specifically, his...
View ArticleGiving Back to Veterans
CharitySub, a “subscription service for giving,” is highlighting three organizations in November that focus on the needs of veterans. Their model is simple. Members of the community give five dollars...
View ArticleDepart. of Veterans Affairs Suicide Data Report, 2012
More and more information, that should have been widely reported all along is being so with ever growing actions taken, studies, research and actual public and private collaborative help, have been...
View Article"32 and 41 per cent less likely to re-offend"
That would do wonders.Overall, reconviction rates did not change significantly from 1983 to 1994. Among, prisoners released in 1983, 46.8% were reconvicted within 3 years compared to 46.9% among those...
View ArticlePTSD: Reminders That It Never Ends
Last night I was laying in bed, cuddled in a favorite quilt, just starting to get sleepy while watching firelight on the ceiling (better than a nightlight!), when a memory popped out of nowhere and...
View ArticleGamechanger: Simple, Inexpensive Test for Concussions
There is a new, easy test to assess whether or not an athlete has sustained a concussion. Better yet, it's easy to administer and amazingly inexpensive. With students returning to school and...
View ArticleSports and Health: What Price Glory?
As the baseball season comes to a close and football mania ratchets up, I can’t stop thinking about a Frontline documentary and an ABC news story that shared the common denominator elements of sports,...
View ArticleVets living with the consequences of their choices
On the week of 12/9/2013, NPR Morning Edition started a series of reports on the consequences of being discharged from the US military with a less than honorable discharge. In the 12/11/2013 report,...
View ArticleVet with PTSD, First Legal Recreational Pot Purchase
One of the many, one other being use and thus for many overuse of alcohol, self medications used by many brothers and sister veterans for years, as the country ignored the issues of combat veterans {as...
View ArticleThen, and now, never becomes...
now and then... The impact of head upon concrete rendered me unconscious. When I awoke, time and memory no longer existed for me like it does for the rest of the lovely people in the world who have...
View ArticleSupport our Troops! A Crime in 3 Wars. Part III
As before, this story is substantively true in that only names, specific dates and locations may be changed in order to protect this particular service member's well being as they are currently still...
View Article$30 Million, Private, Gift to Veterans
Is this sincere, maybe abit of a guilty conscious, or maybe just corporate flag waving patriotism memes that's shown, corporate and civilians served, throughout this past decade plus and two long wars...
View ArticleThe It Girl
Clara Bow was born in 1905. Bow’s young life was fraught from the beginning. Her mother underwent a high risk pregnancy in order to have Clara. Unfortunately when her mother was in the last weeks of...
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Young Men With Old Brains: The Hard Realities of Traumatic Brain Injury in Sport
Editor's Note: In light of the recent controversy surrounding the NFL's handling of Junior Seau's Hall of Fame induction ceremony and a new settlement challenging the terms of NFL's concussion...
View ArticleNPR Investigation Finds Army Has Betrayed Thousands of Combat Veterans
22,000 army soldiers with mental health, TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) issues have received misconduct discharges instead of treatment since 2009, an NPR investigation has found. They are denied...
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The Second Thing: Living and Thriving with PTSD
Friends at the Daily Kos,I wanted to take some time to reflect on the struggle I have had with chronic PTSD following my tour in Iraq. I have discussed it much on my own site Padre Steve's World which...
View ArticleTN human trafficking sting brings 41 arrests including high school teacher...
Following a TBI (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation) online sex trafficking sting last spring where 32 were arrested, including two pastors, another 41 arrests were made this past week. The recent...
View ArticleTN police officer arrested and fired for raping and sexually battering women...
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation/TBI announced the indictment of a Tennessee police officer charged with one count of rape, one count of sexual battery, and two counts of official misconduct....
View ArticleKosAbility: it's about time (our next meeting), and here's something about space
No, this isn’t about the Tardis. I’m boldly separating time and space to discuss the next KosAbility meeting topic and then present a book in the Braille library. First, the time of our next meeting:...
View ArticleKosAbility: Are you worried? Wanna talk about it? Or read about next Sunday's...
What will happen to us? Are you concerned about access to the medicines that keep you alive and other necessary medical care? What about the IEPs for children that tailor school to their needs and help...
View ArticleResearch Shows Hits That Do Not Cause Concussions Are Also Dangerous
More scientists now believe that repeated hits to the head that are too small to cause concussions may also damage the brain. Recently, the chair of the department of psychiatry at the Indiana...
View ArticleChanging Your Name When Indigent and Genderqueer
I can’t remember a time when I haven’t wanted, longed, to change my name. My name has never been my own, I was named for an aunt for died a few years before I was born, and of my copious cousins &...
View ArticleSNAP & How It Can Affect Your Life
I’ve been on SNAP/food stamps/food assistance on and off for a good bit of my life. I grew up on paper food stamps, WIC, and government cheese and canned meat, and all the shame that went with those,...
View ArticleWeirdness at the Shelter
Update!I met with my case manager yesterday, and it seems that I’ve sent enough documentation to Disability Rights Maine that they called him while I was there. What timing!They had had an imperfect...
View Article34 Traumatic Brain Injuries Diagnosed after Iranian Missile Attack afterall...
A breaking story on CNN states the following:Thirty-four US service members have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries following the Iranian missile attack on US forces in Iraq earlier this...
View ArticleFor my autistic graduate of 2021 and other disabled people, respect is due
When my son Augustus was born on Aug. 3, 1999, we chose his name in part because of the month, and in part because we had finished reading a book about Caesar Augustus, Pax Romana, and the stability...
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Connect! Unite! Act! Can we be comfortable with discomfort?
Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series that seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet regularly to socialize, get out the vote, support candidates, and engage...
View ArticleMental Health Awareness Month: Trump determines cognitive tests tell him he's...
This month is Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s important because every day, people in this country and around the world have experiences that impact their mental health. It can be situational—maybe...
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