Each year, millions of people in the United States sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) from falls, motor vehicle traffic crashes, collisions with moving or stationary objects, and assaults. The Centers for Disease Control and …

I still remember lying in the hospital bed thinking to myself, “My military career is over. Now what am I going to do?” On September 26th 2003, while en route to four days of rest and recuperation (“R&R”), my Hummer was ambushed by a roadside bomb outside of Tikrit, Iraq. As a result of the attack, I lost my left eye, ruptured both ear drums, suffered a minor traumatic brain injury and nerve damage to my left arm and hand. That’s the thing with war – there’s no time out when you are injured.