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Category: Caregiving

Choosing to parent after brain injury

BY: MELISSA JIROVEC Parenting is hard work. It challenges you in ways you never imagined you’d be challenged, forcing you … More

Melissa Jirovec, Parenting and Brain Injury, women and brain injury
We have battled this brain injury together, but alone

A year with a different brain

A version of this article was originally published on March 18, 2017 BY: ERIN MOORE On March 18, 2016 my … More

#areyouaware, Erin Moore, Hidden Disability, persistent concussion symptoms, Spouses of ABI Survivors, women and brain injury

7 years with my husband’s severe TBI

BY: THERESA McCOLL Where do I go from here? There have been nights I waited for Norm to walk in … More

ABI and relationships, ambiguous grief, Theresa McColl

15 things you don’t know about Kevin Redmond O’Keefe, BIST volunteer of the year, caregiver category

As a small non-profit, volunteers are a central part of how BIST is able to do what we do. Meet our Volunteer … More

Adult Siblings of ABI survivors, Kevin Redmon O'Keefe, Volunteer of the Year

My traumatic brain injury: Sister caregiver experience.

BY: SAMIRA OMAR I remember the last thing we did as a family. A week before everything happened we celebrated … More

Adult Siblings of ABI survivors, Caregiving, Eid Al-Fitr

How we celebrate Christmas after my husband’s brain injury

BY: THERESA McCOLL My husband, Norm, has lived in a long term care home since acquiring his brain injury six years … More

ABI and the holidays, Spouses of ABI Survivors, Theresa McColl

How to support your friend’s recovery from a traumatic brain injury

BY: A NURSE-CAREGIVER OF A YOUNG PERSON WITH A BRAIN INJURY  

Friendships, Traumatic brain injury

What we don’t like to think about, but need to prepare for

BY: THERESA McCOLL Do you ever think, what would you do if your spouse was in a serious accident? Who … More

Caregiving, Power of Attorney, Spouses of ABI Survivors

Come with BIST to see Brain Storm: a Toronto Fringe play about brain injury, a psychic medium and Dr. Wilder Penfield

BY: MERI PERRA If you’re of a certain age and lived in Canada, you likely remember this classic Heritage Minute featuring … More

Notes from our ABI Caregiver Self Care and Communication Workshop

On February 11, 2017 BIST hosted a ABI caregiver workshop, facilitated by: Stacy Levine of Journey Rehabilitation and Behaviour Therapy  … More

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