[erkelly]

Serious head injury, Todd Palin is probably not the man he was before this trauma.

[21twelve]

Could be. My son was friends with a guy in college - super nice guy, quiet, smart. He fell and hit his head - he was really lucky that he lived. Tons of college friends that took turns staying with him during his long hospital stay.

He was a completely different person after that. Mean, nasty, violent in some cases. His friends (including my son) tried to remain friends, but it just wasn’t working. And dangerous in some cases.

Or - perhaps Sarah is the difficult one? Who knows. Was sad to hear of the news, and sad to hear how she found out. 31 years!

[Mama Shawna]

That wouldn’t surprise me. Wasn’t he in the hospital for quite a while? Not sure if it was severe. A friend of my mom’s once told me of her ex...things were fine until he suffered a severe brain injury in a car accident. After that he was very different, and started looking for ‘relations’ with other men in rest stop areas. She found out and that was pretty much that. Not saying this is what Mr. Palin is doing, just that major brain trauma has various outcomes.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Serious head injury, Todd Palin is probably not the man he was before this trauma.

Very true. I have a friend whose husband was savagely beaten in a mugging. He had permanent brain damage as a result. The damage caused him to start acting erratically in ways she just couldn't live with (i.e. he developed an obsession with one of her friends who lived halfway across the country and took off to go there and stalk her). They are now divorced. Very sad story and the only people to blame are really those thugs who beat him.

[taildragger]

"Serious head injury, Todd Palin is probably not the man he was before this trauma."

ER,

This Sled injury, were did you get the info it was TBI related, I remember many broken bones and his body was pretty beat up. I don't know if they put him in a coma (like they do) until someone heals. Please Opine.

I can't imagine the recovery in your 50's those of us that had major vehicle related injuries when we were young and recovered know that was hard enough with youth on our sides.