Brain Injury Support Group
Traumatic brain injury occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage. TBI can result from a closed head injury or a penetrating head injury. Symptoms of a TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of the damage to the brain. Outcome can be anything from complete recovery to permanent disability or death. A coma can also affect a child's brain.
I am struggling with the mechanics of stuff that I am working on. I.E. I was working as an electricians apprentie. When I would go to class I am able to get it and to understand it. Now when it comes to physically applying it I can figure out the problem or know where or who to go to figure it out. But there is an interruption somewhere between the transfer from my brain tho my hands. I have found another job as an electricians apprentice because I have since then been laid off that is not my fault. I want to be as successful as I can at this next job so I am looking for any help or suggestions you might have. It would be greatly appreciated!
The one suggestion I can think of, is practicing a similar task by yourself, over and over again, if that is possible. When my eye/brain/hand functioning took me out of my job, could not use a computer, I started with a little flip phone that had kids tetris preinstalled, R and L and other controls on the phone to play the game, but I had to coordinate all the info, and it was really hard to do...I got so frustrated I nearly threw the phone down..what should have been easy for me was very hard (my previous job was major multi-tasking/multiple computers) Anyway...I got mad, but I kept trying, practicing each day, and eventually my eye/brain/hands "got it" .....I guess that pathway had to be re-created in my brain. Repetition, for me, has been a big thing for re-learning....don't know if this helped, but I'm rooting for you! Blessings
My brother David was not good in school . That was partly due to his attitude, but really he just didn't have a head for "book learning". His sophomore year in high school he started going 1/2 day to regular classes, and then spent the afternoon at a vocational school. He started studying to be an electrician. He barely had the grades in "regular" school to graduate, but was number one at the vocational school! He worked for a few years as an electrician,but was never in love with it. He now is self-employed as an I T ( computers) person that is in charge of keeping all computers running at about 6 car dealerships. Sometimes it takes time to find our niche.
I was interested in your comment about being able to understand how to do something, but there was some sort of disconnect between your brain and your hands. Man, can I relate!
When I had brain surgery I remember the surgeon saying 'We're taking out your seizures, but I don't know what else we might be affecting." After a couple of weeks of recovery, I sat down at the piano and found I couldn't play it anymore. It's been 30 years and I still can't. I can read music ( the notes on paper ) , and I know all the notes on the piano, but can't get my hands to play the notes I'm reading. Both my daughters took piano lessons, and I had high hopes that I'd "relearn" as they learned . It didn't work.
As Cheesecake said, sometimes practicing over and over can help. My daughter Amy is a gifted pianist, and I remember her wanting to play a song called "Linus and Lucy" ; the theme song to any Charlie Brown cartoon. I was determined to learn it too. I practiced it day after day , and finally got it! However it was an easier song than others because it involved just playing one hand at a time. First the left hand would do low notes as the bass, then the right would bang out "ba ba ba bum"- the chords you really hear in the song. There was one place where both hands had to work together and that was a major challenge, and sometimes I still can't do it correctly. This is the Only song I can play , but it is a small accomplishment. ( The piano is now in a separate room waiting for Amy to buy a house big enough for her to take it. It's too frustrating for me to keep).
Would you be able ( brain -wise ) to go back to school to learn something new to do as a profession? I think of the expression "If you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life". I hope you can find something that fits your desires and abilities. - Holly
Anita
I've had really frustrating times I'll be driving and not paying attention to destination. The first couple years that was so bad I'd be 50 miles past where I intended to just go to the store. It's like some times that I don't feel like I have to concentrate, I go on autopilot but just be driving, and sort of wake up and realize I'm way past the destination.
My main frustration is having most of my career plans ripped from under me. I still work, but I have to claim partial disability lest I be fired for having some difficulties. I'm rather good a what I do, but I have to concentrate so hard it gives me headaches.
And at least a dozen times I've had to take extended sabbaticals. I'm on one right now, and my symtoms have subsided some. And I'm bored and ready to go back to another contract job. I only hope I can get one that is long term and tolerate it. My homesteading plans I started long before my injuries have been extraordinarily delayed. I contacted Habitat for Humanity, but apparently I contacted the wrong chapter of it, and have to try that again.
Have you had a neurophysc test done? When I did the test it was soooooo hard!!! But the results didn't surprise me, basically I was severely impaired. I had thought that- but now it was in black and white.
I do wish you luck- don't stop trying!
The Note Book Will Do Wonders , Something They Taught Us In Rehab.
Good Luck To You.
Mike