Personal Narrative: Traumatic Brain Injury

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On September 29th, 2001, my younger brother was playing the homecoming football game, of his senior year. After the game was over, he was jumped by 5 men, who attacked him with baseball bats. He was airlifted to the emergency room, and the doctors began working on him. After several days, the doctors told us that, among many other injuries, he had suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The TBI took away his ability to speak, walk, and left him with the loss of his vision. I had so many questions for the doctors, but most of all, I wanted to know, why getting hit in the very back of his head caused his loss of vision and caused him not to be able to speak. I immediately started researching TBI’s on the internet. I discovered that…show more content…
I would spend hours sitting on the side of his hospital bed, telling him stories about the good old days. I know he could hear, and understand me because he would smile and squeeze my hand. This became the most important part of my days, I couldn’t wait to see him, and tell him about everything going on in my life. I kept thinking that one day I would go visit and , he would actually talk back to me. In the spring of 2008, my brother took a turn for the worse; it was as if he had lost the will to live. On the morning of April 20th, 2008, I was lying beside my brother. I had just finished washing his face, and brushing his teeth. I looked over at him, to ask him if he was cold. As I turned my head, I noticed that he had a huge smile on his face. It was as if time just stopped for a few minutes. The smile faded, he inhaled, and took a very deep breath, let it out, and closed his eyes. Just like that my brother was gone. Although my heart is broken, I know he is in heaven, and no longer has to suffer. His pain is gone, and he is at peace with the Lord. Not a day goes by, that I don’t miss my sweet, baby brother. I am only able to go on with my life, because I know that one day, when the Lord calls me home, my brother will be standing with open arms, waiting at the gates for

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