I was wondering if anyone could help me comprehend The Way of Kings- with NO spoilers. I'm on chapter 28 and so lost.

I suffered a serious traumatic brain injury years ago and finally have worked my way up to reading this, however I'm having a difficult time understanding what is going on.

I feel embarrassed having to ask, but hopefully someone out there will be able to help. I think the fact that there are so many characters being introduced all the time (I really struggle with names) has added to the issue.

I'm not entirely sure WHAT it is about or what is going on. I feel like I've jumped into the middle of a story without knowing important information.

So if you think you might be able to help, please comment or shoot me a message. Again NO SPOILERS please. For reference I'm on chapter 28 currently. I listen to the audio book as well as follow along with a physical copy (only way my brain can read lol)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02849-0

Ketogenic Diet as a potential treatment for traumatic brain injury in mice

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a brain dysfunction without present treatment. Previous studies have shown that animals fed ketogenic diet (KD) perform better in learning tasks than those fed standard diet (SD) following brain injury. The goal of this study was to examine whether KD is a neuroprotective in TBI mouse model. We utilized a closed head injury model to induce TBI in mice, followed by up to 30 days of KD/SD. Elevated levels of ketone bodies were confirmed in the blood following KD. Cognitive and behavioral performance was assessed post injury and molecular and cellular changes were assessed within the temporal cortex and hippocampus. Y-maze and Novel Object Recognition tasks indicated that mTBI mice maintained on KD displayed better cognitive abilities than mTBI mice maintained on SD. Mice maintained on SD post-injury demonstrated SIRT1 reduction when compared with uninjured and KD groups. In addition, KD management attenuated mTBI-induced astrocyte reactivity in the dentate gyrus and decreased degeneration of neurons in the dentate gyrus and in the cortex. These results support accumulating evidence that KD may be an effective approach to increase the brain’s resistance to damage and suggest a potential new therapeutic strategy for treating TBI.

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Open Access: True (not always correct)

Authors: Meirav Har-Even - Vardit Rubovitch - Whitney A. Ratliff - Bar Richmond-Hacham - Bruce A. Citron - Chaim G. Pick

Additional links:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02849-0.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8651717

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-642407/v1.pdf?c=1638903549000

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I can afford to take care of the dog(vet bills, food, toys, etc) . But the training I could use some help with.

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I live in the United States specifically Florida. I am also a medicaid and SSSI recipient if that helps any.

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My 86-year-old father had bowel resection surgery. The surgeon said that because it ended up being an open surgery rather than a laparoscopic procedure, he would recover in the ICU.

He was on a ventilator and under general anesthesia for the surgery. My understanding is that they are just keeping him anesthetized and on a ventilator while he is recovering in the ICU instead of in the recovery room.

He had no history of health problems, but is overweight. Nonsmoker, no routine medications.

Before surgery he was having difficulty breathing and very stressed out by the nasogastric tube, plus in a lot of pain and extremely thirsty after a couple of days with no water to drink.

It makes sense to me that they would want to leave him anesthetized/ ventilated for a while.

My stepmother's son died of a traumatic brain injury after nearly a week of medically-induced coma on a ventilator.

She has been communicating to all her friends that my father is "on life support". Technically true, I'm sure, but I worry that she's conflating the 2 situations.

Am I seeing the distinction correctly?

Update: it may not matter... in the ICU, my father had to be given CPR and shocked. He has no history of heart issues, but since he entered the hospital has had difficulty breathing, had a pulmonary embolism, and had an erratic heartbeat. Sadly, it sounds as though things are not heading in a good direction.

Advice/ supportive thoughts are very welcome.

Just seen the BBC drama "A Very British Scandal" about the Duchess of Argyll's hypersexuality. She fell down down a 12m lift shaft and had a head injury with anosmia so it is possible that her behaviour was changed by this as well. This issue didn't feature much in the BBC drama and I've tried finding out more about her brain injury - does anyone know of any more detailed sources of information?

As the title suggests I'm looking for a powerful mofo to give me significant therapeutic benefit from using a TDCS or TMS device over a 1-6 month period.

Something that works like the TMS device in the Stanford study would be looovely, as I'd imagine if it's so effective for treatment resistant depression it's got to be very good at reducing neuroinflammation, microglia activation too, etc.

I got my traumatic brain injury due to passing out behind the wheel and crashing into a crane truck and the crane injected into my head! I'm just wondering how others obtained theirs as well!

I saw a video today where a football player was apparently "posturing" after a severe concussion. What is posturing, what causes it and what does someone's prognosis look like that experiences it?

Never done one of these and happy to help if I can in anyway. Cheers!

If you have received any accredited education and/or training, which accredited institution(s) and/or entities, have you received your education and/or training from?

Hi RAoC! This is my first time posting here, but I've lurked for a long time. I realized today that this might be a fun way to lift my husbands spirits. In March of this year he was in a car accident that left him with a traumatic brain injury. He hasn't been able to work since and attends upwards of 10-15 appointments a week to try and get better, but he recently suffered another regression backwards. Needless to say, he doesn't have a lot of time outside of appointments and recovery and it's just really causing him to struggle with his mental health. He says he has been feeling really useless lately because he can't work and feels like all of our struggles are his fault which is so not true - he didn't cause the accident, he was just a passenger. Every day he's getting more down in the dumps and it breaks my heart to see him this way. We have a toddler and are expecting a baby in 28 days (found out a week after the accident!) and I'd just like to see him smile again.

Thanks for considering ❤️

His interests include hockey - Detroit Red Wings, football - LA Rams. Pokemon, he loves Pokemon. Video games like Assassins Creed. He can't do much of these anymore but he still loves them!

I (33F) I had a TBI when I was 16yo, stupidly not wearing a seat belt on my way to school and getting ejected from my vehicle and landing in the road where it was said my head bounced like a basketball. I was in a coma and ICU for a while. Needless to say it was pretty severe and I am lucky to be alive. I was an avid reader and fluent with words prior to my TBI.

Post TBI, I struggle in all things, particularly the craft of writing which is basically the only thing that means something to me.

I went on to major in English and writing so I was getting by. Occasionally I will have moments of complete lucidity, where the words flow and I feel like me again. Most of the time I feel like I am borrowing words, or I can write for weeks while producing nothing of value. I applied to 7 MFA programs after college and got rejected from all of them. I’m guessing my work was shit or not coherent. After that, I had a small piece published in my college teachers textbook (small win, small win), and I privately write or occasionally have a slam dunk a social media post but it’s not filling my bucket anymore and I need to address it.

I am wondering if there is anyone here who’s survived a TBI and how you overcome the challenges associated with having a brain injury and have a creative, writerly life.

Do you volunteer and donate your Traumatic Brain Injury Caregiving skills and services without financial charge and/or compensation; and/or do you receive financial compensation from any entity, such as government publicly funded social services In Home Support Services, an insurance company, private payer, non-profit organization, charity, for profit corporation/company, self-employed, academic/work force development/job training intern, etc?

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https://www.Reddit.com/r/TBICaregivers

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In some NSFL videos I've seen of the aftermath of car crashes, there are people who are still alive on the ground doing these spastic movements (I.e. abdominal reflexes, and hand movements).

What I'm trying to understand is what's going on from a medical/pathological standpoint in their brain, causing these spasms and the Decerebrate posturing? And what causes death?

In July I was in a dirt bike accident that landed me in the hospital for a month, the icu being 9 days of it. I had 7 broken ribs, a collapsed lung, broken C7 and L3 vertebrae. Ask me anything!