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National Brain Injury Awareness Month in March alerts us to the causes and aims to eliminate the stigma surrounding brain injuries.

When it comes to brain injuries, not a single injury or person is the same. The month is dedicated to improving awareness of brain injuries. Providing quality support for people with brain injuries and understanding their needs will improve their outcomes for the future. Changing the world’s perspective to understand how brain injuries work is a difficult task.

While anyone can suffer from a brain injury, it’s important to remember that everyone is a person first. They are not their injury. Each person has hopes and dreams, and they are not their injury. Each injury affects a person differently. How we support the person and treat the injury will require understanding and patience.

I suffered a burst brain aneurysm stroke in 2013. I am in the extremely lucky category. After months of recovery I was able to swallow correctly and regain a lot of function. In 2015 I developed a spinal cyst from the aneurysm. Even after spinal surgery I have not regained my ability to stand and walk. While I am competent to handle my affairs I am in the 17% who can do so. A field of vision defect effects the ability to do something as simple as read a sentence, accout number or even price tags.

I am grateful everyday that I have had no further complications and look forward to my future. It’s the main reason I started this blog. I had no idea before this that women like me are so likely experience this. I hope this inspires more to be aware of the risks and inspire those who go through it that it does not have to be the end of an active and fulfilling life.

Prevention

Learning the signs of a concussion and when to seek medical attention can mean the difference between mild and severe injuries. Repeat injuries require additional attention.

Two types of brain injuries are traumatic and non-traumatic. Traumatic brain injuries occur due to motor vehicle accidents, sports or recreational injuries, domestic violence, falls, and other external forces. Causes of Non-traumatic brain injuries begin internally due to disease, poisoning, a hereditary condition, lack of oxygen, stroke, or other internal medical condition.

According to the Department of Defense, one of the keys to recognizing a concussion and getting immediate treatment is identifying these symptoms:

H – headaches or vomiting
E – ears ringing
A – amnesia, altered consciousness, or loss of consciousness
D – double vision and/or dizziness
S – something is wrong, or not quite right

HOW TO OBSERVE #BrainInjuryAwarenessMonth #ChangeYourMind

Learn more about supporting those with brain injuries, prevention, and more. Visit www.biausa.org to learn more. Use #BrainInjuryAwarenessMonth and #ChangeYourMind to share on social media.

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National Wear Red Day, on the first Friday in February, is an annual campaign to raise awareness about heart disease in women.

Wear your red today! Dress to impress, and raise everyones knowledge of heart disease in women. As February is heart health month for all, red will bring attention this great cause.

Heart disease and stroke kill one in three women. These diseases are 80 percent preventable according to Go Red for Women’s official website.

Go to www.goredforwomen.org for more information.

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NATIONAL WEAR RED DAY HISTORY

The Go Red for Women campaign started in 2004 when the American Heart Association took on the challenge of raising awareness about the number 1 cause of death in women.

HOW TO OBSERVE #WearRedDay

This national campaign has revved up its red!

Wear red to show your support for saving women’s lives
Show us how you Go Red on your social media profiles using #GoRedWearRed
Donate to help raise funds for awareness and research. Get your red gear at shopheart.org and a portion of every purchase goes back to the programming and mission of the American Heart Association.
Know your numbers. Find out more about your risk factors at the American Heart Association website.
#GoRedGetFit – earn prizes and get healthy while fighting heart disease with the American Heart Association. Find out more at GoRedForWomen.org or join the challenge on Facebook GoRedGetFit.