Tag | Traumatic Brain Injury Success Stories

Tag ‘Traumatic Brain Injury Success Stories’

Patrick Parks

In November 2008, Patrick Parks was involved in an on-the-job accident which left him with a traumatic brain injury. While installing a light fixture at a construction site when the power was turned on, Patrick fell from the scaffold. His doctors gave him a one percent survival prognosis. After multiple surgeries and being moved to a second… Continue Reading

Gene Ataman

Emerging from a coma, Gene Ataman arrived at CareMeridian Cowen Heights in April 2008, weeks after his head was crushed during an on-the-job accident at LAX, which nearly killed him. The force caused multiple skull and facial fractures; his teeth and his eyes were impacted by the crushing weight of the luggage transport. Sustaining traumatic… Continue Reading

Sergeant James Carey

James Carey was involved in a training exercise at Camp Pendleton in July 2009, when a weight dropped in the pool and he went under to retrieve it, but never came up. His near-death drowning experience cut the oxygen supply to his brain and left him in a coma. The doctors held up little hope… Continue Reading