CarbonFire3DPrints

Hey man fellow TBI survivor, hang in there it gets better!

I just turned 20 and had a TBI from freeskiing when I was 14 in a competition. I knocked a gopro mount (Industrial 3M adhesive) off my helmet and also cracked it. I landed head first into an ice stair (gotta love NJ snow the Ice Coast). Keep a check on depression and other mental health issues and maybe try speech therapy that helped me. Avoid alcohol and addictive drugs, TBI survivors have a strong addiction potential. They are also finding correlation between TBI and PTSD. Keep trying new things you never know what might click with you post-TBI that you never would have enjoyed or been good at before. Don't think your stupid. I still managed a 1960 SAT. It was a hell of a lot harder than pre-TBI but nothing is impossible. If you have any question for me feel free to shoot me a PM.

BTW if you have any brain scans, I could 3d print them for you. Check my post history I just was able to print my own brain after a recent MRI check up. At least for me there is something oddly therapeutic about being a TBI survivor and able to hold a model of my actual brain in my hand.

Would that be something you are interested in? Any questions about my injury or recover? Best of luck!

I know what you mean haha. If you'd want I could send you a mini print of your brain if you link me to the files. The MRI 2d slices are cool to flip through but compiling them in 3d then printing is way better IMO. The materials cheap enough for a small model that I wouldn't mind hooking another TBI'er up with a 3d print of their brain lol

Yup still have some issues sleeping it takes forever to heal but don't get down by slow progress, the brain is way more placid (changeable) than we ever imagined! Glad to hear speech therapy was good for you as well. Mine was prefrontal cortex, the area where time is calculated. I do have trouble keeping track of time to this day. Did you ever feel physically exhausted after speech therapy? When I did it I remember leaving feeling like I ran a marathon.

Yeah if you want to send the files over I'll do my best to ship you a 3d print of your brain!

The crash reel hits home with me because I got my TBI in a similar fashion just on skis not a snowboard. Brings tears to my eyes when I watch its so sad. I'll look into the BBC show, check out r/neuroscience to!

I prefer to make some money from my prints and I have a 3d Hubs (kind of like an eBay / Craigslist of local 3d printers). I'm just very interested in neuroscience and TBI in general so I wouldn't mind helping redditor's out now-and-again on various interesting projects.

That being said to have a close to real life / scale model printed I would need money because the resin printer I have uses materials that are much more expensive. But a tiny little model sure why not?