Reality of Brain Injury

<p>A respected medical professional family man and keen athlete Andrew Tillyard had a full and active life until a vehicle crash changed it all. He sustained a serious head injury and was airlifted to the hospital where he worked having only just survived. In this book he recounts the raw uncompromising struggles he faced to rebuild his life. </p><p>Drawing from regular blog entries written throughout his rehabilitation Andrew provides an authentic reflection of the lived experience at some of the key stages along the road to recovery from pragmatic concerns about new daily difficulties to wider concerns about his new place in life. He highlights the specific challenges and support he encountered as a person with a medical background who finds themselves in a healthcare system as a patient. With frank honesty he takes readers beyond the simple message that things can and do improve by demonstrating that negativity bitterness and occasional rage are all necessary parts of the journey. However he also describes the many little victories that helped him keep battling on knowing there is always hope for the future. In particular he narrates how he learnt to do things the doctors said he would never do: walking reading running and ultimately writing this book. With the perspective of ten years since his injury the book also charts a longer-term view of the ebb and flow of recovery. </p><p>This is essential reading for neuropsychologists neurologists and other rehabilitation therapists as well as students in medicine nursing allied health and neuropsychology. This is also a compelling and compassionate story for anyone who has survived a brain injury who feels – as Andrew did at times – that life might not be worth living anymore as it can show that there is always hope for the future.</p>