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Their minds whirling with unanswered questions, their hearts filled with pain, Ed and Aneta Lyons sat with their son, Duane, as he lay in a coma following an auto accident in Germany.
The year: 1985. Two weeks after the accident-which took part of his frontal skull, his left eyebrow, and the vision in his left eye-he awoke.
The Lyons' life would never be the same.
They are not alone. Over 15,000 head injuries are reported each year just in Arizona. Nationwide, head injury survivors comprise a staggeringly major portion of the disability group.
Fourteen surgeries later, his forehead eroding further with each incident, Duane has physical limitations as well as cognitive and memory disorders. He will always take medication to guard against seizures. But he can write, help his parents around the house, and chat with people. He is intelligent and compassionate.
The love and support given by Duane's parents is significant, but did little to help him build a new life outside the home, one in which others in similar circumstances would play a major part. He was lonely and depressed.
Frustrated by the fact that society doesn't make openings for their many, many head-injured people, Ed and Aneta vowed they would find a way for Duane and others like him through what seemed like reams of paperwork in their efforts to become designated as a nonprofit organization.
Now SOHI has nonprofit status. But where are the volunteers? Where are the effective fund-raising ideas? While the many families involved in SOHI membership desperately want a center, they have so little time to be creative, to offer fresh ideas. But they try.
Duane is still lonely and depressed, but down deep he hasn't given up on having a center. Ed and Aneta Lyons and a number of the head-injured and their families refuse to give up. They know there is a way to have a center to go to on weekdays. They just don't know when. Or where.
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