AP+Head+Injury+Article+Summary

Find an article via the internet about a young person (21 or younger), that has been affected by a head injury. Provide a link to the article on the wiki and summarize the article in a paragraph of complete sentences. Address these questions: How did the injury occur? What was the damage to the brain? What is the recovery like?


 * How did the injury occur?**

Berry was at a party with some friends. All of his friends wanted to go to KFC and eat but Berry didn’t and stayed with his girlfriend. Berry got this crazy idea and wanted to take his friends motorcycle for a drive. His girlfriend and him go up this road on the motorcycle that’s really hilly and there is a gully at the very top. He didn’t really know there was a gully at the top and before he knew it he had driven the bike into the gully. He had severe head injury and his girlfriend only had a broken nose.


 * What was the damage to the brain?**

The damage to the brain was very severe. He was in the hospital for 4 months learning to talk, walk, eat, and dress again. He was learning everything all over.


 * What was recovery like?**

His rehabilitation lasted for 16 months. He was an outpatient to Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy three times a week. When he would come home from therapy his mother would ask him to read 5 road signs and two times tables. He had 12 hours of attendant care twice a week. He had a tutor that would help him with homework and learning everything again. After 10 months their attendant care was cut to 6 hours and two years later they had no help at all. When he moved away from home he lived in a rehab center that didn’t help him or give him any care. He laid in bed most of the time and would only come home in November. When he was at home it caused many problem because his parents didn’t know what to do to help him and he couldn’t stay anywhere. Finally his mother contacted his old art teacher who was working at the polytechnic. The polytechnic helped him learn.

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