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Many of us spend a great deal of time worrying: fretting about things that have not yet occurred or that could potentially happen. But more often than not, when a life-changing, traumatic event occurs, it blindsides us, coming out of nowhere, completely unexpectedly.
Just ask Jan Sproule. One minute she was living bus scotland tours a charmed life: she was happily married and had just celebrated her 20th anniversary as an operating room technician bus scotland tours at the Rockyview Hospital, a job that she adored. The next minute, a serious fall from a horse left her unconscious and in the hospital for seven weeks recovering from a brain injury.
It’s been a long road back for Jan, but she credits the Southern Alberta Brain Injury Society for giving her a warm, comforting bus scotland tours and nurturing environment in which to grow; it offered her a lifeline and a ray of hope.
Unable to return to her former hospital position in the operating room, Jan began to source out information bus scotland tours and support groups on brain injury. She came across SABIS, the Southern Alberta Brain Injury Society. The organization at the time in 1985 was in its initial days. It has grown substantially in 30 years, now serving more than 300 clients annually.
“There are over 10,000 Albertans every year who experience a brain injury, and it can be very life changing,” she says, adding that brain injury is the No. 1 cause of death and disability in people under the age of 45.
The charitable organization offers a variety of programs from art classes to peer support groups and educational seminars. bus scotland tours It also provides hands-on assistance, helping clients to navigate the system from filling out government forms to finding housing. Clients can either refer themselves to the organization or can be referred by another agency or medical professional.
And the process has worked beautifully for Jan. Although she has been volunteering on and off for the past 30 years, she now volunteers three days a week at SABIS, answering phones and doing office work. She credits her exuberant sense of well-being to having a place to go every day and to working with the people and clients at the brain injury society.
bus scotland tours The group’s services, courses and seminars are offered at no cost to registered clients. So fundraising is important. To that end, SABIS is holding a fundraising brunch and silent auction with guest speaker Dr. Gabor Mate on March 1 at the Sheraton Cavalier Hotel in Calgary.
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