Renowned + beloved long-time Radio DJ
Casey Kasem, once commented:
Casey Kasem, once commented:
"I like the storytelling and reading the letters,
the long-distance dedications.
Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting!"
the long-distance dedications.
Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting!"
As a matter of fact, I could not agree with Mr. Kasem more. Of course, like so many other things, radio has certainly developed&expanded over the years. What has remained the same, however, is its main intention: to tell stories through
a medium that has a wide range. Hopefully, such stories will serve as either a call to action, or just an antidote for the humdrum, sometimes stressful aspects of everyday life.
Much like how I offered *SNAPS* {praise} to
Karen Anderson and Channel 5's Investigative-Team back in November, I must now dole-out *SNAPS* to DJ Ray over at WMRC : First-Class Radio, for not only featuring me throughout his show, but also posing such insightful questions!
a medium that has a wide range. Hopefully, such stories will serve as either a call to action, or just an antidote for the humdrum, sometimes stressful aspects of everyday life.
Much like how I offered *SNAPS* {praise} to
Karen Anderson and Channel 5's Investigative-Team back in November, I must now dole-out *SNAPS* to DJ Ray over at WMRC : First-Class Radio, for not only featuring me throughout his show, but also posing such insightful questions!
Hello Ryan. I am writing you as a member of the Acquired Brain Injury Network of Pennsylvania. I am a brain injury survivor. I try to network with as many brain injury survivors as I can. In 2010 I was involved in a motor vehicle accident. The SUV I was driving flipped over and I flew out of the side window and smacked the front part of my head into the highway median leaving me with a brain injury that resulted in my right frontal lobe receiving damage leaving it smaller than my left frontal lobe. No one else was injured. I had bleeding in my brain leaving me in the hospital’s intensive care unit for one month. As a result my left lobe is compensating the right lobe of my brain that is no longer there. As you may know the Brain Injury Association of America is observing Brain Injury Awareness Day on March 16, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Maybe I will see you there. But, the question I have for you is for people who have experienced trauma what is it they have to do to live the best quality of life possible?
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Johann Tshibangu
johann.tshibangu@mymail.barry.edu
Hello Johann,
DeleteFirst of all, thank you for reading my post! We SURVIVORS have got to stick together ~~
I have found, throughout the "Uphill-Battle" that is TBI recovery, that in order for people whom have experienced trauma, one of the most important things is to just KEEP ON LIVING! That sounds quite vague, I know! :p ~~~ But, for me, getting involved with the BIA-MA as a Survivor-Speaker has been, and continues to be, the most important aspect of my healing!! O:)
Thank you Ryan. I am ambassador of the Brain Injury Recovery Support Group of Reading, PA. I speak there but our turn out is not very large. How can I reach more people and do what you do?
DeleteYou're quite welcome, Johann. Have you ever been connected with your state's Brain Injury Association? I'm attaching the link to BIA-PA's website here: http://www.biapa.org/site/c.iuLZJbMMKrH/b.1840925/k.DF3E/Programs.htm ~*Best of Luck*~ :D
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