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The First 90 Days After a TBI.
A Family Survival Guide.
The single resource we wish we’d had the night the call came.
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Who This Is For
For the families standing in the first stretch
This guide is for families standing in the first stretch of life after a traumatic brain injury — the parent in the hospital chair, the spouse reading discharge papers at midnight, the sibling trying to figure out the next right step before coffee, before work, before anyone else in the house falls apart.
It is also for survivors who are ready to read, or to hand the guide to someone helping them navigate what comes next.
It is not a marketing PDF. It is the guide a family wishes it had at the moment the system stopped leading.
What’s Inside
The AFTER framework, applied to the first 90 days
A
Acknowledge the Split.
Naming what just happened, and why “the after” is the only honest frame.
F
Face the Invisible.
What a TBI actually is, why it hides, and what to watch for across the cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral domains.
T
Take Strategic Steps.
Bedside advocacy. ER red flags. Documentation that will matter later. The IME doctor explained. Insurance in the first 30 days. When to call a lawyer (and why early matters).
E
Establish the Team.
Therapy modalities. Handoff cliffs. The caregiver also needs a team. Returning to work, school, and life.
R
Rebuild with Intention.
The bridge to the long arc. Rebuilding is not returning. What thriving honestly looks like.
Plus, in the appendix
A daily symptom log — printable. A bedside questions sheet for the ICU and the first specialist visits. An ER red flags one-pager — designed to live on a refrigerator. A documentation photo checklist. Crisis lines, the Brain Injury Association of America directory, and a vetted reading list.
The Promise
We will meet you where the system leaves you
We will not make this sound easier than it is. We will not bury you in clinical language or legal noise. We will not ask you to have every answer, every paper organized, or every emotion in line.
Why It Exists
Built by a father who took the call
AFTER | TBI was built by a father who took a call from Colorado State Patrol in February 2018 and spent the next several years learning what no medical school teaches a family: how to advocate inside a fragmented system, how to read symptoms that hide, how to grieve a person who is still alive, and how to keep going on the Wednesday morning three years later.
This guide is the resource he wishes someone had handed his family that February.
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Call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Veterans: call 988 and press 1, or text 838255. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.
If a brain injury is suspected and the survivor has not been evaluated, go to the nearest emergency room. Do not wait.
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AFTER | TBI is an independent education and resource platform for TBI survivors, families, and professionals. Content on this site is not medical or legal advice. Hoover TBI Law is the litigation arm behind AFTER, built on the same survivor-first philosophy. AFTER is not a direct lead-generation platform.
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