Today I would like to share with you the stories of two men who are beating the opinions of the medical profession and are living productive lives.
A few months back my son-in-law conned me into going to a local taping of one of the Worldwide Entertainment (WWE, formerly World Wrestling Federation) shows. I met [...]
Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Lawrence, Mike, Wal-Mart, and the “Letter from the Birmingham Jail”
Posted in Disability, Personal on September 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Are Those in the Persistent Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States Aware of Their Surroundings?
Posted in Medical Research, Personal on September 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sorry about the inactivity here over the past week but, as anyone with brain injury will tell you, we have good days and bad days. Hopefully, I’ve gotten the bad days out of the way for now and I can get this blog up to date.
While I was out of action for the [...]
Movies’ Failure to Accurately Portray Coma May Influence Decisions Related to Medical Care
Posted in Disability, Medicine, Personal on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In my personal opinion, the saying that “Old habits are hard to break” is probably one of the most accurate statements ever made regarding human behavior.
Before my retirement, I spent almost 30 years as a medical para-professional as first a Physician’s Assistant and then as an ultrasonographer with special qualifications in adult and pediatric cardiology [...]
The Public Misunderstanding of Brain Injury
Posted in Disability, Medicine, Personal on August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Of all the acquired (“acquired,” in medicine, simply means something that wasn’t present when you were born) conditions treated by modern medicine, the consequences of brain injury are among the most misunderstood by the public at large. Personally, I believe that there are three somewhat interrelated factors behind these misunderstandings.
The first is perhaps the simplest [...]
Praying for a “miracle”? Don’t expect one!
Posted in Medicine, Personal on August 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As a writer, I spend about 1 hour per day wading through e-mails, press releases, online journals and other such creations of the electronic media in order to learn if something within these communications is actually worth passing on to the reader. And while the following essay may not be considered as news to the [...]
Good Morning
Posted in Disability, Medicine, Personal, Uncategorized on August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Since I’m the new kid on the block I might as well start with an introduction and what I hope to accomplish with this blog.
My name is Wayne McDonald and I am a brain injury survivor.
There are lots of conditions other than trauma that can injure the brain. My own injury occurred as a [...]
