Having significant PsuedoBulbar Affect (PBA) for many years after sustaining multiple traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), my PBA went undiagnosed until my post-intensive cognitive outpatient therapy at Mount Sinai (a TBI Model System) when I began volunteering on the inpatient TBI/Stroke floors. It was not until I met other patients with a similar condition (i.e., PBA)...Read More

I am a sixty-seven-year-old woman, a mother to three grown children. I have been married for 42 years and most of that time, I worked as a registered nurse in either the emergency department or taught nursing. Thirty-four years to be exact. I had worked for 34 years in the health industry. My career ended...Read More