Abstract
During my first year of child fellowship, I cared for a 16-year-old girl who suffered a traumatic assault with subsequent brain injury. “Alicia” had sustained stab wounds to her neck, large vessel injury, and cerebrovascular accident, necessitating numerous procedures, including a craniectomy. My path and Alicia’s would cross again and again during my various clinical rotations. As I worked with her and my colleagues to help her regain her health, her story proved instructive, not only about the rocky path to recovery for those with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), but also about how that path might have been smoothed, particularly with the help of her family.
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