It's just a concussion

[AverageOldGuy]

3 dead, dozen injured some with “concussive injuries.” That means TBI - Traumatic Brain Injury.

Anyone here see the tv commercials by Wounded Warrior Project? See those guys who don’t have a scratch but they can’t speak, cannot control their limbs, must be fed and dressed? That’s TBI. The concussion from being close to the explosion of 500 lbs of explosive or more causes irreversible damage to the brain.

Will Trump invite them to the White House for Big Macs?


During his first term he was at a service at Arlington where a multiple amputee sang The Lord’s Prayer. Trump told his staff he never again wanted to be seen wit “someone like that” because they don’t look good.

[RandomNumbers]

1. I would like to see a roster of the relatives of Congress + President/Vice-Pres

who are serving in the military.

I bet it is a very short list.

[surfered]

10. I do know that it's none in the Trump family

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. My nephew died of a TBI.

It happened at home when he fell off an improperly used ladder. The neurologist who took care of him at the hospital where he died said he'd never seen a brain bleed as bad. Had he lived, he would have been a vegetable.

A TBI from a bomb blast probably would be far worse.

[sheshe2]

3. I am so sorry for your loss, gaot.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. Thanks so much, sheshe2.

It was four years ago last October, but still seems fresh. I'd seen him less than two weeks before he happened after not seeing him because of COVID.

[sheshe2]

5. Damn, I am so sorry.

My nephew fell from the second story hit the lower roof and then then the fell to the driveway, The police did not think he would make it. He was airlifted to Boston.

We were lucky he made it, took a lot of time, but he survived. When he goes through airport security, he sets off the metal detectors with the metal plates in his head.

[LoisB]

15. I am so sorry for the loss of your nephew.

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. Thanks.

It was and still is painful four years later.

[LoisB]

19. There is no expiration date on grief. I feel the same about my 8 year-old niece

who died 42 years ago.

[greatauntoftriplets]

21. Thanks for telling me that.

I'm sorry for your loss.

[LoisB]

22. Thank you.

[greatauntoftriplets]

23. You're welcome.

[Harker]

6. What Trumpsky calls a "headache."

[Norrrm]

7. 'They Had a Headache': Trump Slammed For Dismissing Traumatic Brain Injuries Sustained By Troops While He Was President

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/they-had-a-headache-trump-slammed-for-dismissing-traumatic-brain-injuries-sustained-by-troops-while-he-was-president/ TBI

‘They Had a Headache’: Trump Slammed For Dismissing Traumatic Brain Injuries Sustained By Troops While He Was President

[paleotn]

8. Not anything new either.....

Dad talked about that when he was in Normandy in 1944. The first time he and his compadres faced concussive injuries, though they didn't know the cause at the time. The break out, Operation Cobra, was to begin with the carpet bombing of German positions in and around St. Lo. Many bombs feel short and hammered the 30th infantry division's 120th regiment, killing and injuring 600+ soldiers including General Leslie McNair. Dad said the best you could do was dive into ditch or foxhole and hope and pray. He said some guys came out of it without a scratch but were never the same afterward. Lots of cases of that mainly from shelling on their way to Germany and the boat ride home. Shell shock that doesn't go away. Perhaps ever. Now we know.

[orangecrush]

9. K&R

[surfered]

11. At one time in Iraq, concussive injuries didn't qualify for the Purple Heart

Which wasn’t right!

I don’t know the current policy

https://www.npr.org/2010/09/09/129606127/purple-hearts-elusive-for-traumatic-brain-injuries

[ALBliberal]

12. I have experienced TBI my first thought was? They are minimizing

This. It’s AWFUL. I am All good these days but it was a journey.

Sadly the Iraq war had us learning more about TBI.

And here we are again.

The news shows today? It’s like they are rehashing the Iraq war talking points. The Iranian people need to stand up!!! That’s what this administration says? After starting this quagmire.

Tough times friends.

[usedtobedemgurl]

13. I have a TBI from a car accident.

I was sitting at a red light and was rear ended. I have mentally been found, by the government, to not be able to work. Before my husband died, there were times when I could not recall his name. I struggle with my dog’s names. My taste has changed. I do not enjoy foods I used to. I had to quite teaching Chinese kids English because I could not do math problems at a k-2 level. I grieve the person I was before the accident. I have found others on the subreddit who also grieve who they were. Overnight, you have a whole new personality. I have five different types of headaches. I have double vision and do much more. It is horrible.

[LoisB]

16. I am sorry you have to go through this.

[usedtobedemgurl]

20. Thank you.

It would be so much easier if I had done something to cause it. A drastic change being my fault would at least, well I am not sure. Sometimes it is hard to find words with a TBI. That is what my concussion specialist says. Anyway, I was stopped at a red light. I did nothing but sit there! It is hard because everything was out of my hands. I cannot imagine what soldiers go through.

[MLWR]

14. Will Trump invite them to the White House for Big Macs?

No. "They knew what they signed up for."
He doesn't do anything that normal POTUSs do/did. And frankly, he really doesn't give a damn.

[Blue Full Moon]

18. My son's friend was in a vehicle and hit ied.

They said he was okay. He came home and was supposed to get married. He died the night before his marriage from an aneurism. The government said it was not from the ied.