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The Never Ending Journey, The Intensive Care Unit, A guide for those with Acquired Brain Injury, their families and friends is the first book in the series. The book is like a wise and compassionate friend who meets you at the hospital and helps you to navigate your way through the intensely stressful, fast-paced and high tech environment of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after someone close to you is critically brain injured. The book integrates the technical, the practical and the emotional to help you make sense of what is happening. It enables you to be an active participant and, if necessary, advocate on your loved one's behalf.

A broad range of topics are discussed including: ICU equipment and procedures, coma care, technical information about the brain, how to inform and support others, longer term effects of brain injury, next steps and emotional healing. First hand accounts are included to help validate the unique experience of trauma and brain injury. While initially written for family and friends, the book is also a popular resource for people with brain injury. It helps them understand what happened to them immediately after their injury, opens up lines of communication and sometimes allows survivors of brain injury to "reclaim" a piece of their missing life.

Feedback for The Never Ending Journey series includes:

Your books are the best writings I have found that reach out to survivors of brain injury and their families. Your personal experience gives credibility and genuine awareness to your writings. Thank you.
Social Worker

I found your books, not only informative and inspirational, but extremely familiar --- were you sitting on my shoulder throughout our ordeal? I believe your books would be very helpful to anyone experiencing the devastation of acquired brain injury. They are easy and quick to read, but packed with much important information, as well as uplifting advice. It is good to know during this terrible time that one is not alone --- that others have travelled the same path and made it through.
A Mom

I loved your new book! I cried all the way through it...
A Dad

...easy to read and truly inspirational (even) to many of my "normal" friends.
Survivor of traumatic brain injury

I like to give your stuff to new staff to give them a base as to what the personal issues are.
Instructor, Neuro