Supporting someone you love
When a brain injury happens to someone you love, you are holding a lot at once. These guides help you understand what you are seeing, support them through it, and look after yourself too. For any medical, diagnostic, or treatment questions, your loved one’s care team is the right people to ask.
The First Days After a Brain Injury: What to Expect
The hospital can feel overwhelming and the language unfamiliar. This guide walks you through what usually happens in the first few days, what the words mean, and how to look after yourself while you wait.
Understanding the Glasgow Coma Scale
What that score from 3 to 15 means, and what it doesn’t.
Types of Brain Injury, Explained Simply
Concussion, contusion, and diffuse injury in plain language.
What a CT Scan or MRI Shows
Making sense of the imaging the team orders and why it matters.
A Family’s Guide to the ICU
What the machines do, what the team is watching, and how to be present.
Questions Worth Asking the Care Team
A calm, printable list to bring to rounds and family meetings.
When Your Loved One Is Sedated
Why sedation happens in the early stage, and what to expect from it.
Caregiving Starts With You
Simple, realistic ways to stay steady through a very hard week.
Telling Family and Friends
How to share updates once, without repeating hard news over and over.
Coping With the Waiting
Living with fear and uncertainty when so much is out of your hands.