Help the Howard Family with Vera Howard Funeral Expenses.

After battling her coma condition, Vera Howard at the age of 60 passed away at Forestville Rehab Facility at 1:24am Thursday  April 28th 2016. If you would like to donate to help Vera Howard’s family to cover the funeral expenses.  Also portion of the funds received will also be used to support ongoing anoxic brain injury research on behalf of Vera Howard. The Howard Family thanks you for considering our request for donations.

On August 29, 2009, Vera Howard, for reasons unknown, lost consciousness and hit her head on the bathroom sink as she fell to the floor and was rendered unconscious.  Her doctors believe that during the incident she went into cardiac arrest and lost oxygen to the brain while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. At the hospital, she was diagnosed with Anoxic Brain Injury, a severe form of brain injury caused by the loss of oxygen to the brain.


The picture above is my loving mom before the fall.

Carlos Howard &
- The Howard Family Thank You


Traumatic Brain Injury Facts
Facts on TBI from CDC
In 2010, about 2.5 million emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, or deaths were associated with TBI—either alone or in combination with other injuries—in the United States.
TBI contributed to the deaths of more than 50,000 people.
TBI was a diagnosis in more than 280,000 hospitalizations and 2.2 million ED visits. These consisted of TBI alone or TBI in combination with other injuries.
Over the past decade (2001–2010), while rates of TBI-related ED visits increased by 70%, hospitalization rates only increased by 11% and death rates decreased by 7%.
In 2009, an estimated 248,418 children (age 19 or younger) were treated in U.S. EDs for sports and recreation-related injuries that included a diagnosis of concussion or TBI.3
From 2001 to 2009, the rate of ED visits for sports and recreation-related injuries with a diagnosis of concussion or TBI, alone or in combination with other injuries, rose 57% among children (age 19 or younger)