Please register for now with an application at the "Join Now" feature above, upper left, so that we may reserve your place at our table.
We are excited to meet you, come in, relax, and join our friendly family of Survivors and Winners!
This web site is a support mechanism provided with a chat for people who have experienced any kind of "head injury". Some of the diagnoses would include names like: "Post- concussive Syndrome", "Traumatic Brain Injury" (TBI), "Concussion", and/or "Loss of consciousness", (LOC), associated with open or closed head injury", with or without "coma", "aneurysm" (Stroke) or any other kind of injury or degenerative disease such as "Alzheimers" (Alz), or other arterial embolism in the brain.
This volunteer site is for the Caregivers, Family, friends, co-workers, Doctors, Nurses, and Rehabilitation Therapists, and all practitioners' of brain-injured people. All brain injury involved people are welcome to come, share, support, enjoy, learn, share the love, grow, and contribute your talents and non-expert opinions here. All expert opinions are reserved for office hours at office fees and each Survivor's experience has commonalities with varying degrees of severity. The experts are the ones who have been there on that side of a brain injury and survived it. The courageous individuals who live with it every day. The technically intelligent experts are the one's we pay the fees to who define what the deficits, determine the severity, and treat the symptoms with the most reasonably bearable means of therapy to enable all of us a way to live with our lives as they are.
We ask our Members to be mindful of the sensitivity of newly injured individuals, and the delicate emotional condition that may be present in response to certain comments as received from the typewritten word with no other communicative signals such as voice intonation, eye contact, or body language. This can at times result in accidental misunderstandings when in the chat room at times so please, be patient enough to explain if necessary, what it is your are trying to say. For example, from experience, it has been recognized that in some cases where a person has been injured in the frontal lobe(s) of the brain, the perception may be more literal and/ or emotional than individuals with injury in other areas of the brain because the emotional controlling area of the brain is right at the frontal lobes. Because injury is to that part of the brain, an individual may respond or perceive more literally, which could appear to be irrational, (aggressive, angry or emotional) to some situations or statements than others may. Others as well as the fore mentioned, can have varying executive cognitive impairment such as typing very slowly, needing to think about what is said for a minute before responding, not being able to type very quickly, things like that. Again, please do your best be patient, we all need patience from time to time. Always be courteous even if your feel differently.
To be fair to all, the general rule here is personal medical information that is shared here, please have the respect for yourself, others, and the maturity to allow such confidential information to remain here. What is said in our chat room between members and on our general board, even if received in your email in box from this site would be information that is to be regarded in the same respect please. (i.e., confidential) Thank you.
We request that everyone be respectful and considerate of each other’s feelings and deficits please and to follow proper internet etiquette. This is a place to have fun, relax, enjoy, meet new friends, learn, live, grow and most of all be of service and support for each other.
That which brings harmony is best here, we like this serene and peaceful environment, and we intend to keep it this way. It makes this environment much, much more enjoyable than others. Any disagreements or controversies may be addressed to management at BrainInjurySupport@msn.com Disruption of the serenity of this site will not be acceptable and will be swiftly dealt with without notice. Much as we don't like to we have to say that.
Quick Disclaimer: Site, or Room Manager(s) are not responsible for content provided by Members; however, manager will attempt to make best efforts to screen Member input for appropriate content. Manager reserves the right to remove, adjust, or edit any input to this site by members without prior notice to member and without member consent. As a practice of courtesy and respect, we always make an effort to consult with members before changing any of their input if it needs changed.
Non-Members are not able to post or enter member areas here because this site is a restricted access site for members only. We do what we can to look after our members, that is why we ask members to send email addresses and other personal information to our confidential email address at BrainInjurySupport@msn.com rather than posting it in the member profile.
The BISG does not publicly post member profiles but, MSN groups DOES!! If you are interested in our purpose, cause, or topic, great!
Fill out a Membership application and let us know why you want to become a member.
Tell us a little bit about you, (see below for more) Letting us know why you want to be here always helps us relate to you and welcome you in. Makes it easier for us to get to know you and your situation and helps us relate to you and you to relate to us. Many of our volunteers will voluntarily :-) let you know how they can relate to your situation and why.
Also to be included with why you want to become a member, please include the following information: Your true, First and Last names, the email address you are using to apply with so long as it can send and receive email so that we may log you in as a member of the site, you can send and receive email at the address, mail can be sent to you from us (we do not send much email, maybe 1-2 times a month at the very most, if that much).
Thank You, we look forward to welcoming you as a Member.
If you prefer to email your email address and other personal information to our confidential email address, state that fact on your application and then please feel free to send to: BrainInjurySupport@msn.com your application will not be approved until the information is received.
SPONSORING MEMBER REGISTRATION:
Include with your email the following information: (This is for Sponsoring Organizations, Offices, Individuals) Name: First, Last, Your Position Organization or Business Name Physical mailing address: Street Number, Street name, Apartment/Suite No., City, State, Zip Code, Phone: Office, Home, Cell or both, Fax No. if you have one. Please include a picture of your company logo and a link if you would like to, we cannot advertize, but we CAN Post Certificates of Appreication for your Charitable Donations.
FOR MEMBER APPLICATIONS:
Please include your real name(s) First, and Last Name, working email address, and a brief description of why you would like to be a member, a paragraph or so long introduction of yourself, who is injured, (please include their first name, relation to you) what happened, when and how you or your loved one are doing now. This information is very helpful in getting to know you and welcome you and your loved one into our Family of Friends in the Circle of Hope!®TM
CONTACT US: At http://groups.msn.com/BrainInjurySupport/ (just type that URL into your browser's window, hit Enter or the "Go" Arrow, wait until the page loads, On the left hand side of the page, you will see the "Join Now" Option, select it and the Application will load automatically. Please fill in the prescribed information as stated in this introduction. (Please do print this page for future reference in getting yourself registered with the site.
Again, the Application email address is: BrainInjurySupport@groups.msn.com
+Confidential email address is: (Follow ups, Confidential Information) BrainInjurySupport@msn.com
ImaLady-Founder/Manager (ALL Manager Mail) BrainInjurySupport@msn.com
The BrainInjurySupport-Chat email address has been closed, please use the above email address
Thank you so very much for your cooperation!
The web link: http://groups.msn.com/BrainInjurySupport For Applications waiting for Approval (Applications Only) Please do not follow up at the groups.msn.com email address, send follow ups to this email address: BrainInjurySupport@msn.com the http:// link.
How do you know you have been approved? If you can get into our chat room, you have been approved? If you can get into the site beyond the first page, you are approved.
For Members wishing not to display email address in Member Profile after having placed it there, Manager will not erase your Profile email address, members may remove their email address from their profiles in the Profile settings section of the Member Tools.
The Member list is publicly listed at this time. Once a person becomes a member, your profile information is accessible to other members of this site ONLY so that if someone sees you in Chat and wants to send you an email (Members Only) they may. One of the reasons why we ask members to make sure our Founder/Manager-ImaLady has your email address, First and Last Names, State you live in is because she keeps the separate Member database updated. (Note: Manger DOES NOT give out Member email addresses or Member Names that information is confidential, period) We are not public access, we are restricted access, members only. Members are asked to post their personal information at the BrainInjurySupport@msn.com, and the "Post Your Own Information" page inside the site ONLY!
There is a section provided where if a Member so desires to enter a working email address for themselves they may, called, "Add Your Own Info." It is Member's responsibility to provide your real name and real email address and the state you live in to the Manager at the confidential email address at BrainInjurySupport@msn.com or in your Membership Application. Please remember, in the Membership Applications, to list your Country, and State of location, tell us why you want to be a member. If you are a caregiver, survivor, family member, curious, etc. (See Above) Thank you.
Member Profile: In your member profile please include your User Name, same as you used for your Application, what your State and Country is, (So we can include your area on the Chat Schedule) Your First Name, and Last Name, your age, (Mandatory for Minors) Minors should be supervised by Parent, Adult, Legal Guardian while on the internet.
We do not allow cussing or sexual talk or topics, even if they are related to brain injury; that is not the purpose of this site. We are not a dating service or room of that nature and we do not discuss issues of it with other members on the site or while in our chat rooms. Members may discuss relationship issues that do not have to do with carnal knowledge (i.e., sex).
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION APPROVAL:
If ImaLady, Manager does not have an email address with your real name(s), First and Last with Application Nick Name more commonly referred to as Screen Name, your email address, the State and Country you reside and why you want to be a Member of our group, in your Membership Application cannot be approved, so please do include this information with your Application. Only the Manager can see your Application information.
We may post information that you describe about your situation on the "Message Threads", "general" board in brief so that our current Members may know more about you when they talk with you. This is to minimize the amount of times you have to tell your story. If you would prefer we didn't please let us know that on your Application.
Thank you, your cooperation is appreciated very much.
Managers and their volunteers, members, and/or assignees, et al, are not liable for any postings placed by members or non-members ("non-members are not allowed access to post on this restricted access site) Membership may be obtained by abiding by the application requirements of valid email address, real names, nick name, location, why they want to be a member of this site.
Inappropriate postings will be deleted or rejected with or without Notice from boards or anywhere else on this site at Management discretion.
Absolutely NO ADVERTISING will be allowed on this site without approval of the Founder/Manager, ImaLady in writing. People who advertise on this site without permission in writing will have their advertisement deleted and are likely to be permanently banned without notice. Approved in writing advertisements are listed in the RESOURCES LINKS section by the site FOUNDER/MANAGER only.
Managers' make no claims or admissions of liability for content posted by Members of this site including Microsoft, MSN, Windows, or anyone else. The foregoing disclaimer instrument is effective as of July 16, 2004 and following.
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