Description: This is the story of Brian, a college student headed for a normal adulthood whose car strikes a lightpole. He suffers a head injury with severe brain damage. His life course changes dramatically while the family struggles to cope with his possible death, and then, with a quite changed brother and son. His mother first tells of the family's pain of not knowing whether he will survive. The medical providers caring for him doubt his prospects and so seek to severely limit support of his further care and rehabilitation. The author details the family's fight to maintain his rehabilitation course. Brian leaves the hospital 18 months later to function independently in the community as he struggles to rebuild his life.

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