{"id":1177,"date":"2013-02-22T23:15:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T23:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/brain-injury-my-road-to-recovery-time-is-of-the-essence\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:59","slug":"brain-injury-my-road-to-recovery-time-is-of-the-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/brain-injury-my-road-to-recovery-time-is-of-the-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Injury: My Road To Recovery \u2013 \u2018Time Is Of The Essence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (CBS) \u2013 If you were to ask 10 people on the street what TBI is, you\u2019d be hard pressed to find even one person who knows the answer.<\/p>\n<p>TBI stands for traumatic brain injury.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been recovering from one for the past six months.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, I tumbled from my very old, somewhat rusty, yet trusty bicycle. It was the first day of my two-week summer vacation on Nantucket.<\/p>\n<p>I remember nothing of that day, or the 8 days in the hospital that followed. However, one of the first responders to the scene, Nantucket police officer Keith Mansfield, later filled me in on some of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were on the ground, very injured and definitely not with it, and pretty much what we\u2019re trained is, if it\u2019s an issue like that, time is of the essence,\u201d Mansfield said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2013\/02\/18\/brain-injury-my-road-to-recovery-time-is-of-the-essence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more and listen to Audio Interview&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (CBS) \u2013 If you were to ask 10 people on the street what TBI is, you\u2019d be hard pressed to find even one person who knows the answer. TBI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}