CRASHING THROUGH WALLS

Two weeks after her son Jeff&rsquo,s eighteenth birthday, the author boarded a plane. A flight attendant called her name and said, &ldquo,There&rsquo,s been an accident.&rdquo, Jeff was in a coma with a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).  , In this riveting memoir, Janis Ruoff tells the story of Jeff&rsquo,s recovery and the family&rsquo,s life since that day. This story is a profound, tragic and yet oddly hilarious tale of the long term effects of a TBI on Jeff and of family life with a teenager becoming a man with a severely injured brain.  ,  , , For both Janis and Jeff, the story told in this memoir is one of crashing through walls of depression and feelings of defeat, over and over, to get to a better life. Readers will be moved to tears and laughter, and will gain new understanding and compassion for the millions of people in the United States who sustain a brain injury each year from many different causes, including motor vehicle accidents, falls, sports, violence and the injuries of war._,