Blink of an Eye, a new podcast with Louise Phipps Senft, explores stories of trauma, loss, awakening, and epiphanies. Ms. Senft recounts her experience navigating a life-changing accident that rendered her son, Archer, paralyzed from the neck on down, and expands the story with interviews of those behind the scene. Told through real journal entries and inspiring guests, Blink of an Eye will inspire you to explore the true nature of our relationships and interconnectedness in the face of an event that changes everything.
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Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
#164 - How Do You Build your SCI Community after Injury? with Kelly Sydnor
Even as COVID protocols have relaxed in hospital settings and family members have more access to being bedside with their SCI loved ones, there is still a tremendous gap across the US in the knowledge and expertise needed to respond to a SCI patient nationwide. The first critical decision made for a spinal cord injury is where to transport the injured person. Most 911 call centers are not familiar with the location of the 14 SCI model centers and SCI trauma centers. The decisions for transitioning to an appropriate rehab facility can be equally frought with uninformed decision making. Our guest today has been there as a mom of a son injured in 2011. She calls herself the Trauma Mamma as she is one of the SCI moms who reaches out to new SCI families in their time if overwhelm, families often struggling to understand SCI and caught in the medical system often working with medical teams who have little SCI expertise. Listen in as Kelly and Louise reflect on what they had to learn in the critical first weeks and months of injury and how this might help you or a friend navigate their way in the first months of SCI of a loved one.
Join us in building this SCI community as we connect and create a network of practical tips and support for SCI families and friends and medical staff working to provide the best care of their loved one to survive the first year of injury.
The creation of the Blink of an Eye non profit resource library is underway now. It will be a repository for the wisdom of SCI families, SCI information needed in the first year of injury, guidance, inspiration, and statistics that can empower families to guide the course of the SCI patient’s healing and advocate for their well being and their family's well being. Make sure to follow @BlinkofaneyeNonprofit on facebook and instagram for updates on the resource library.
Blink of an Eye is created by Louise Phipps Senft and co-produced by Louise Phipps Senft and Zera Bloom. Theme music is by Victoria Vox.
Blink of an Eye Podcast is sponsored by the Blink of an Eye Non Profit: a non-profit created as a national resource to help change the Spinal Cord Injury experience for families and medical teams across the U.S. Blink of an Eye provides a national team of SCI specialized doctors for expert opinions in the Golden Hours of SCI injury, a Multidisciplinary Family Support & Navigation Team for SCI families lead by SCI families for the first 30 days of crisis, and a National Resource Library of essential SCI information and trauma informed responses for the first hours and days after injury specialized for families, friends and SCI medical staff. Blink of an Eye also offers a Registry of Medically Unexpected SCI Recoveries. To find out more, visit www.blinkofaneye.org.
To find out more about Louise and this podcast, visit the websites www.blinkofaneyepodcast.com and www.BeingRelational.com.
To find out more about learning relational mediation skills for navigating hospital and medical conflict and trauma, visit the website www.BaltimoreMediation.com.
Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @blinkofaneyepodcast. Our Twitter is @blinkofaneyepod. Make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
You can become a member of our Patreon community and see extra Blink of an Eye content and bonus episodes at: www.patreon.com/blinkofaneyepod.
To find out more about Archer and to see some of Archer’s artwork, check out www.slimeyard.com.
#hopeforeverything #obtaineverything #lovehealstrauma #beginagain
Music in this episode is:
Dream Guitar by Frank Schroeter
https://filmmusic.io/song/7759-dream-guitar
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Calm Meditation by MusicLFiles
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7456-calm-meditation
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Imagefilm 043 by Sascha Ende
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