Comments on: Traumatic Brain Injury http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2007/04/traumatic-brain-injury.html the tao of criminal defense trial lawyering Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:13:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark Bennett http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2007/04/traumatic-brain-injury.html/comment-page-1#comment-15 Mark Bennett Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:43:00 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/?p=37#comment-15 Todd,<br/><br/>I'm sorry you lost your dad.<br/><br/>I understand that the person whose personality has changed is often not aware of it. It must seem to him as though the rest of the world has changed.<br/><br/>Mark. Todd,

I’m sorry you lost your dad.

I understand that the person whose personality has changed is often not aware of it. It must seem to him as though the rest of the world has changed.

Mark.

]]> By: Todd H. http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2007/04/traumatic-brain-injury.html/comment-page-1#comment-14 Todd H. Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:26:00 +0000 http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/?p=37#comment-14 In 2003 my dad had a brain aneurysm rupture. He died 8 weeks later, but in that 8 weeks he was in a coma, I read a lot about people in his situation. Often those people woke up with completely opposite personalities from their original personality. Nice, kind, gentle people would become people who would say and do terrible things, or even become violent. It was really heartbreaking to read these stories by people who had felt that eve thoug their father/mother/sister etc., had woken up, it was worse than if they had died. If I had been given that choice with my dad, I'm not sure what I would have chosen. I'm not too sure him waking up with a different personality would have been worse than watching him take his final breath and feeling his heartbeat slowly weaken until it wasn't there. In 2003 my dad had a brain aneurysm rupture. He died 8 weeks later, but in that 8 weeks he was in a coma, I read a lot about people in his situation. Often those people woke up with completely opposite personalities from their original personality. Nice, kind, gentle people would become people who would say and do terrible things, or even become violent. It was really heartbreaking to read these stories by people who had felt that eve thoug their father/mother/sister etc., had woken up, it was worse than if they had died. If I had been given that choice with my dad, I’m not sure what I would have chosen. I’m not too sure him waking up with a different personality would have been worse than watching him take his final breath and feeling his heartbeat slowly weaken until it wasn’t there.

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