It has taken me six years to relearn some of the skills for life following a traumatic brain injury which I acquired as a passenger in a car crash. Brian can be contacted by e-mailing brian@brianmoylan.info or @brianfmoylan.
Hi all
As you may be aware, I have suffered a brain injury, not dissimilar to the ones that British (and any nationality's) soldiers may suffer in combat situations. I want to help these people so that is why I have the internet domains braininjury.org.uk and braindamage.org.uk and am keeping hold of them until I have completed the development of a personal project of mine; a web site that is made with the idea of helping other victims of this injury.
It has been a long haul getting from a situation where I was expected to die; the doctors were no doubt disappointed that their medical expertise and prognosis were incorrect ;)
Anyway many "fighters" suffer this injury; I think it used to be called "shellshock" in the olden days (before the munitions were so well designed to kill.)
I am not advocating that weapons should be redesigned to only maim (although such have existed in the past (especially from our fellow human allies?), about how to win a war, cause lots of living wounded on the other side.)
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Brain injury is personal to me because:
1) I've suffered one, and am lucky to be able to type this message
2) My uncle Ted, who I knew when I was a kid, had been shot in the head during the Dunkirk evacuations and had to live the rest of his life with a brain injury. Oh how I laugh when I hear from other nationalities that the British were "running away" and my uncle deserved it for being part of the cowardly bunch that the British are.
So please, think about the people who have lived through such an experience and help them when you can.
Over and out
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