New location for the meetings

Greetings! Thank you to everyone who attended the September support group meeting. One of the items we discussed was merging the Brain Aneurysm Support Group with the primary group I facilitate, Lifelines: The Brain Injury Support Group. 6 group members attended the September 10th Lifelines meeting, and based on the feedback, we will indeed merge the two groups.

This means that meetings will be on the second Monday of every month, from 6:30 - 8 PM, and the meeting location is on the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas campus.

Please allow me to explain how a brain injury support group can be of use to you. As a survivor of a ruptured brain aneurysm myself and creator of the group, I believe the most important thing to realize is that the mechanism by which your brain was injured (automobile accident, fall, stroke, ruptured brain aneurysm/brain surgery) is most significant during the acute phase of care - hospitalization - and post acute - first stages of rehabilitation. When it comes time to address the physical and cognitive deficits in the recovery/rehabilitation/remediation phase, there are enough similarities between the brain insults that allow survivors to meet under an umbrella group.


There is enough diversity with the information presented at Lifelines group meetings to address the needs you might have following you surviving a brain aneurysm. The fundamental goal of the group is the address quality of life issues and give you information on the therapies and research that could help restore brain function.



Please visit http://www.lifelinesdallas.blogspot.com/ for meeting information. If you have any questions, please contact Kimberly Aikman at lifelinesbi@sbcglobal.net.