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Five years ago, Morgan was hit by a car and suffered a mild traumatic brain injury. While a concussion is a bummer for anyone, Morgan is one of the 10% of people who experience a mild traumatic brain injury and, instead of recovering, experience ongoing, severe, and even increasing symptoms over time.
Because mainstream medicine focuses on the 90% who do recover with little intervention, treatments that have the possibility of helping Morgan experience less pain, less debilitating fatigue, fewer cognitive and memory issues, and more ease, are ones that are outside of the mainstream and not covered by health insurance.
There are treatments available that have a good track record of reducing symptoms in cases just like Morgan's.
We are asking you, our family and community, to make this treatment possible for Morgan. Please consider donating $100, or any amount greater or lesser as you are able, to help us reach our goal.
Let me tell you more about what’s it like to be Morgan these days. If you don’t live with chronic debilitating conditions, it may seem like these symptoms are impossible. Morgan deals with daily and widespread pain, migraines, neuro-fatigue, regular seizures, memory loss, visual and noise sensitivity, and balance and cognitive issues.
This all adds up to the reality that the 12 hours a week that Morgan works often feels overwhelmingly difficult. It means that she’s often pushing herself to do the things that life asks of all of us, but with levels of pain or fatigue that would keep most of us in bed until it was over. But, for her, it’s never over. Morgan has remarkable stubbornness and has developed many skills and tools to help herself deal with her daily symptoms. However, living with less pain and fatigue would be a tremendous relief!
In December of 2018, we had a court case to determine whether and how much the auto insurance company of the driver who hit Morgan in 2014 would owe us as a liability payment. We had great hopes that this settlement would provide us with funds that we could invest in treatments that have a hope of providing relief from the symptoms that Morgan experiences. However, despite the fact that the driver had clearly broken a number of laws, the jury found the driver to not be negligent, meaning that the insurance company will not pay a settlement. The jury reasoned that because they could imagine themselves running through a crosswalk in the same way the driver who hit Morgan did, it must be ok. Unfortunately, there is no possibility of appeal.
As a result of losing to the insurance company, we are helping to raise awareness and change the laws so that this won’t happen to other people. Morgan will be working in coalition with Washington Bike Law and other organizations to advocate for a “presumption of liability” law, which would better protect people who are hit by cars, while also being fair to drivers.
However, since changing the law won’t change our circumstances, we are reaching out to our families and communities to make it possible for Morgan to receive treatment. The treatment facility that Morgan has selected is Cognitive FX , which does week-long intensives for people in exactly Morgan’s situation, i.e. people who have ongoing brain injury symptoms which have not been responsive to other types of treatment. Morgan has chosen this partly because two people she knows and trusts, who have similarly complex, ongoing, and treatment resistant symptoms as hers, have experienced great improvement and reduction in symptoms through their work with Cognitive FX.
Cognitive FX does specialized brain scans (fMRIs or fNCIs) that pinpoint which areas of the brain are receiving too much or too little blood. This gives the practitioners specific information about what kinds of exercises are needed to create the changes in the brain to help the brain work more efficiently and thus reduce the symptoms While no treatment can promise results, we have chosen Cognitive FX as being the most likely to be able to give Morgan the most relief.
Thank you so much for considering helping Morgan access this potentially life-changing treatment. Your gift of any size will be greatly appreciated!
Because mainstream medicine focuses on the 90% who do recover with little intervention, treatments that have the possibility of helping Morgan experience less pain, less debilitating fatigue, fewer cognitive and memory issues, and more ease, are ones that are outside of the mainstream and not covered by health insurance.
There are treatments available that have a good track record of reducing symptoms in cases just like Morgan's.
We are asking you, our family and community, to make this treatment possible for Morgan. Please consider donating $100, or any amount greater or lesser as you are able, to help us reach our goal.
Let me tell you more about what’s it like to be Morgan these days. If you don’t live with chronic debilitating conditions, it may seem like these symptoms are impossible. Morgan deals with daily and widespread pain, migraines, neuro-fatigue, regular seizures, memory loss, visual and noise sensitivity, and balance and cognitive issues.
This all adds up to the reality that the 12 hours a week that Morgan works often feels overwhelmingly difficult. It means that she’s often pushing herself to do the things that life asks of all of us, but with levels of pain or fatigue that would keep most of us in bed until it was over. But, for her, it’s never over. Morgan has remarkable stubbornness and has developed many skills and tools to help herself deal with her daily symptoms. However, living with less pain and fatigue would be a tremendous relief!
In December of 2018, we had a court case to determine whether and how much the auto insurance company of the driver who hit Morgan in 2014 would owe us as a liability payment. We had great hopes that this settlement would provide us with funds that we could invest in treatments that have a hope of providing relief from the symptoms that Morgan experiences. However, despite the fact that the driver had clearly broken a number of laws, the jury found the driver to not be negligent, meaning that the insurance company will not pay a settlement. The jury reasoned that because they could imagine themselves running through a crosswalk in the same way the driver who hit Morgan did, it must be ok. Unfortunately, there is no possibility of appeal.
As a result of losing to the insurance company, we are helping to raise awareness and change the laws so that this won’t happen to other people. Morgan will be working in coalition with Washington Bike Law and other organizations to advocate for a “presumption of liability” law, which would better protect people who are hit by cars, while also being fair to drivers.
However, since changing the law won’t change our circumstances, we are reaching out to our families and communities to make it possible for Morgan to receive treatment. The treatment facility that Morgan has selected is Cognitive FX , which does week-long intensives for people in exactly Morgan’s situation, i.e. people who have ongoing brain injury symptoms which have not been responsive to other types of treatment. Morgan has chosen this partly because two people she knows and trusts, who have similarly complex, ongoing, and treatment resistant symptoms as hers, have experienced great improvement and reduction in symptoms through their work with Cognitive FX.
Cognitive FX does specialized brain scans (fMRIs or fNCIs) that pinpoint which areas of the brain are receiving too much or too little blood. This gives the practitioners specific information about what kinds of exercises are needed to create the changes in the brain to help the brain work more efficiently and thus reduce the symptoms While no treatment can promise results, we have chosen Cognitive FX as being the most likely to be able to give Morgan the most relief.
Thank you so much for considering helping Morgan access this potentially life-changing treatment. Your gift of any size will be greatly appreciated!