Help after a brain injury

This is an unusual story I thought worth sharing as is shows two things:
First the power of supplementation for overcoming serious health problems.
Second, the value this person placed on buying Shaklee vitamins even when she lost her job.

Here's the story as passed along from Bob Ferguson by Miranda Mercuri:

Hi Bob,

Not sure what exactly you are looking for in terms of learning disabilities. I am a 2 year survivor of a brain injury due to a ruptured brain aneurysm. I lost my home and my job due to my cognitive difficulties. I started the shaklee business because i always knew the importance of creating a second source of income, I just didn't do it prior to my injury. The past is past.

I have noticed huge differences in my brain health when it comes to my cognitive disabilities. My brain injury affected me on the right side of the brain, more specifically the right frontal lobe. They corrected it through open head surgery. That right frontal lobe, is responsible for planning and organizing. When any part of the brain is affected, it disturbes the other parts of the brain, so memory became my disability. It put me out of a job. So you can imagine what my days were like. I wasn't able to do simple things like plan a meal. We don't think of it, but all the things we do involves planning and organizing. In addition with a brain injury, it is very common to fatigue quickly and want to sleep after doing any activity. It is not that you are physically tired after a brain injury, but you are mentally exhausted and the only way to correct it was to sleep a few hours. I have been taking the vitalizer and the omega 3's. What a difference Bob! Mentally I have more energy. What that means to me is I can focus longer on any specific task. It didn't cure me, as I still struggle with it, but I don't take as many naps. I am able to read now for 30 minutes straight without needing a nap from exercising my brain in a book. How long I will have these challenges no one knows. It's up to the brain and God. Wether I will have a permanent cognitive disability is unknown. But the omega's and the vitalizer are important in my day. I know when I don't take them. Wether I remember to take them or not, my body reminds me.


Miranda Mercuri
www.squidoo.com/livingwithbraininjury
613-255-5473

In good Health, Betsy

BetsyBell's Health4U
206-933-1889
www.HiHoHealth.com