Saturday, November 18, 2017

COLUMN: Technology gives me hope my father will walk again

Like Michael, my father had a brain

injury that left him partially paralyzed and cognitively damaged.
Another parallel is that the two men even lived in Langley group homes run by the same organization, CONNECT, which specializes in residential environments for people living with brain injuries.
Michael still resides there today.
While the impacts of their injuries are shockingly similar and both were unarguably life altering tragedies, the stories of how they arrived there are very different.
My father suffered several strokes. For him, it’s meant he’s been in a wheelchair ever since, and struggles with the mental impairments he received as well.