Cavan Brain Buddies

CHRONIC MIGRAINE - Cavan Monaghan - Self Management Course.
If you live in Cavan or Monaghan and are living with chronic migraine.
Dates: Friday evenings the 11th & 18th and 25th of February 2022
Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm

Places are strictly limited to 12 people.
To book your place email - [email protected]

The course will focus on the emotional impact of living with a chronic condition with an aim to empower participants with self-management tools and pain-management strategies.
An Initial Assessment Form will need to be filled in for consideration. Places are strictly limited to 12. Course details http://migraine.ie/event-directory/
Funded by the HSE National Lottery Offices - Cavan/Monaghan

OUR SELF MANAGEMENT COURSE FOR CHRONIC MIGRAINE IS BACK

If you live in Cavan or Monaghan and are living with chronic migraine, this course may be for you.

Taking place one night a week for three weeks, this course will focus on the emotional impact of living with a chronic condition with an aim to empower participants with self-management tools and pain-management strategies.

An Initial Assessment Form will need to be filled in for consideration. Places are strictly limited to 12. Course details http://migraine.ie/event-directory/

Funded by the HSE National Lottery Offices - Cavan/Monaghan

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Educational Programme for Careers and Families of a person living with a brain injury. Free to attend
Starting Wednesday 14th April, for 4 weeks. 7.30pm to 8:30pm. Hosted by Acquired Brain Injury Ireland via zoom.
With a leading expert speaker each week.
- Week 1; Dr. Brain McClean
- Week 2; Dr. Eddie Murhpy
- Week 3: Dr. Mark Holloway
- Week 4: Bríd O’Meara

Registering to attend is essential, there is a limited number of places. www.bit.ly/OWL-Registration

For more information, please contact Dolores Gallagher;
Email [email protected]
Phone 086-0102361

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Tagging the following to raise awareness of this programme;
Family Carers Cavan-Monaghan Supports
Cavan County Library Service
National Learning Network

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Rita Redshoes from Portugal. - She wrote this song at the invitation of the neurologist doctor Dr Raquel Gil Gouveia, author of the lyrics, of the SPC - Portuguese Society of Cephalés and of the MiGRA Portugal-Portuguese Association of Patients with Migraine and Headache.

Migraine (What Can't You See?)

Rita Redshoes - Migraine (What Can't You See?) Official Video "Migraine"MUSIC by Rita Redshoes PRODUCED by Mikkel Solnado & Rita Redshoes at Great Dane StudiosLYRICS by Raquel Gil-GouveiaPRODUCTION COMPANY Unlimited Con...

"Connect My Brain is an online support group for people living with a brain injury in Ireland." 🧠 💻 📱
The online group by brain injury charity Acquired Brain Injury Ireland "to make it easier for brain injury survivors to get the support they need, and to have the benefits of peer support from people with a shared experience."

The following website page has more information about it;

Online Peer Support: Connect My Brain - Acquired Brain Injury Ireland Connect My Brain is an online support group hosted on Facebook for people living with an acquired brain injury in Ireland.

Research been done into Brain Tumours that were removed in Beaumont between 29th November 1987 and 7th August 2018.
You have the choice to opt out of their study, other wise your tumour will be used in this research.

"Information message for the brain tumour community: Beaumont Hospital /Genuity Science have extended the deadline to opt out of their study to 1st April 2021."

For more information see the below post, and the following website page http://btis.ie/

⚠️ Information message for the brain tumour community: Beaumont Hospital /Genuity Science have extended the deadline to opt out of their study to 1st April 2021.

If you or an adult family member were treated for a brain tumour at Beaumont Hospital between 29th November 1987 & 7th August 2018 you should check http://btis.ie/

It explains how you or your family member can have your data excluded from the research if you so choose.

All queries in relation to the study should be directed to Beaumont via [email protected] or by calling 01 7977726.

Epilepsy Ireland Webinar 4th February 7pm
'Virtual Education Session' with;
Prof Norman Delanty
Sinead Murphy Advanced Epilepsy Nurse Practitioner
Mary Barker Community Resource Officer

For more information please see the post below
or contact Mary Barker by email [email protected]
Mary is the Cavan, Monaghan, Meath, & Louth Community Resource Officer for Epilepsy Ireland.

Great event coming up as part of our activities for International Epilepsy Day - a virtual epilepsy education session for people with epilepsy which will have the expertise of Professor Norman Delanty; Advanced Nurse Practitioner Sinead Murphy; and our own Community Resource Officer, Mary Baker; on hand for all those in attendance. See link below for more details and how to register.

http://bit.ly/39WI8jw

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Cycling the single biggest activity for referrals to brain unit
Of contact sports, Gaelic football accounts for most referrals to Beaumont Hospital centre.
Sports and exercise accidents account for a third of all referrals to the State’s main centre for treating traumatic brain injury, according to a newly published study.

- TBI

Cycling the single biggest activity for referrals to brain unit Of contact sports, Gaelic football accounts for most referrals to Beaumont Hospital centre

Merry Christmas to one and all.

Global Awareness Day

Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP).
Between 21-44 people are believed to die from SUDEP each year in Ireland. SUDEP is connected to seizures but what exactly causes it is unknown

This years theme is to , for people to speak up and encourage vital conversations on epilepsy risks and SUDEP.

For more information on SUDEP, please visit the following Epilepsy Ireland page:
https://www.epilepsy.ie/content/sudep

is delaying recovery. And loosing recovery that may have been achieved.
Peter McGrath suffered a brain injury when his heart stopped beating. Doctors and nurses acted quickly to restart his heart, but his brain was injured by being starved of oxygen during his cardiac arrest.
On discharge from hospital, faced a lack of support rehab.

Lack of rehab a 'second trauma' for brain-injured - Independent.ie Peter McGrath suffered a brain injury when his heart stopped beating. Doctors and nurses acted quickly to restart his heart, but his brain was injured by being starved of oxygen during his cardiac arrest.

Last nights Prime Time programme, on the 24th September.
features a number of patients with serious condition's, who cant get the operations they urgently need
One of whom is a Tony Parker who has been on a waiting list for the last 4 years, to have neurosurgery to replace part of his skull.

17 mins into the programme, is Tony's story.

https://www.rte.ie/player/series/prime-time/SI0000000825?epguid=IH000383023

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