I had a closed head injury back in 1993, now I'm collecting ssdi is it to late for me.?

Answer:
Too late for what?

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Too late for you to what? need more info

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Is it too late for you to .what?

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I don't have a clue of what is ssdi and wonder ...too late for what?Anyway, whatever the thing you worry you are too late, there is nothing like trying...the only thing they can say is NO. Good luck!

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For someone with a brain injury it may be difficult to find the words to form a complex question (or answer a complex question) so having been there myself I'll take a best guess in the dark. People with cognitive brain injuries typically respond best to simple yes/no questions, if asked to choose from multiple choices you may just get a blank stare or no response at all.I'm not sure what you're too late for, or how bad an injury you had. the brain is an amazing organ it will continue to rewire itself, doctors tend to be pessimistic because they don't want to give you false hopes, but know that you will likely be continually improving, with different parts of the brain taking over for those that have been damaged. Brain studies on terminally ill patients have shown the brain grows/regenerates well into old age. I had closed head injury 1994 in a car wreck, some things improved in a few years, others took longer, some seem to be permanent, but i may yet be surprised again. I did not lose any motor functions mine had to do with cognitive skills, memory and comprehending what I was looking at/reading. If that is the case for you hopefully you have had access to the kind of cognitive therapy one needs post head injury. It made a world of difference to me.Interestingly some things would just improve/go away overnight after years of being static, though I still have to contend with things like short term memory loss, occaisional dyslexia when speaking/writing (eg. do instead of don't can instead of can't, leaving words out of written sentences) and difficulty learning/retaining new things I am trying to learn to this day. Fortunately I did not lose the skills i had preinjury (I was 36 at the time) and anything related to what i already knew/could do remains virtually intact.Keep at it do the best you can, chances are by now you may have already learned to live/function within your limitations. A cognitive skills assessment may be of value in dealing with your limitations if not done already. As far as cognitive deficits I found that finding/being given tools to compensate for the things I was no longer able to do (having to use a calendar and making lots of lists for instance) was at least half the solution to the problem.Hopefully you have supportive understanding caring people in your life. If not, see about joining a brain injury support group, you will find you are not alone out there. It's a long shot but you may find that one day when you least expect it you will wake up and something that you thought was gone forever is there again as if someone flipped a switch. That's the brain rewiring itself.you may find the following brain injury sites to be useful.
http://www.calbia.org/
http://www.biaca.org/
http://www.brain-injury-resource.com...
http://www.tbirecovery.org/best wishes for a continuing recovery

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