Brian Mosko was on the job one day in March 2008 when a tumble from a large trash container sent his life spinning. He fell against two containers, striking his head at the back and front. He has no memory of what happened next — he was in and out of consciousness. But luckily, he was found by some workers on the scene. He had a closed head injury and while he looked relatively fit; his brain had suffered from the assault. After a week in an ICU he had made some progress, and began to understand where he was. After two weeks in acute care, he transferred to NRH. As a top earning sales rep for a large, national pest management company, he relied on his wits, and his easy way with words to meet with clients and seal the deal. He was very motivated to get back to the “normal” Brian, the familiar Brian, and the Brian at ease with the world, with words, with the life he had built with his wife. Two weeks of lying in a bed had taken its toll. So he walked laps around the gym at the hospital and exercised all day long. But in speech therapy, he was having difficulty identifying kindergarten-level words from flash cards.
Three times a week for three months he met with both a speech and physical therapist. By the end of June, he had progressed as far as conventional speech therapy could take him. He began working with NRH Neuropsychologist Dr. Penny Wolfe to push beyond that threshold and to deal with the frustration that continues to accompany his recovery.
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