num_pages: 140
description: This book recounts the 25 years of struggles experienced by the wife of a man who suffered a serious traumatic brain injury at work. Without any training in giving care to someone with a TBI, Avis Dissell recounts the challenges she encountered helping her husband adapt to a new life. Thanks to her persistence, Fred Dissell recovered more fully than anyone expected. But it was not without many frustrations! During these 25 years, Avis wrote her thoughts and experiences for the sake of record keeping and for her own therapy. This book is a compilation of her writing, through which Avis shares her inspirational story. It covers Fred's near miraculous survival, the long years of therapy and re-training, the challenges of being a caregiver and the difficult decisions to move him to residential facilities for the head injured.
language: English
title: Falling Between The Cracks
titlecomplete: Falling Between The Cracks
publisher: Avis Dissell