There is hope even for severe traumatic brain injury

Kathy Egan ECB Publishing, Inc. Several years ago, my friend Ralph (not his real name for the sake of privacy) fell at work. Not just a regular fall, but a twenty-foot fall off a ladder onto concrete. It took about half an hour to get him from scene to the hospital emergency room (ER). Ralph was unconscious upon arrival, underwent a multitude of tests, had a bunch of casts on appendages, and there was an apparatus on his head that kept him from moving even a fraction of an inch. He was diagno