Military families cope with traumatic brain injury at West Orange hospital

Its been three years since Scot Noss and Anthony Thompson suffered traumatic brain injuries while serving with the military overseas. Noss, 32-year-old U.S. Army Ranger from Birmingham, Ala., was the worst injured survivor of a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in January 2007. A few months later, Thompson, a 28-year-old Navy medic from Houston, Texas, was serving with a Marine unit in Iraq when his post was blown up by a massive suicide truck bomb. Though they never met before their injuries, the mens lives are now forever entwined. Their wives, RyAnne Noss and Ivonne Thompson, met shortly after they were injured and formed a close bond. Theyve shared hotels and hospital rooms ever since as they navigate the strange and little understood world of traumatic brain injury. Their search for experimental and intensive therapies ultimately led them to the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, one the leading research facilities for traumatic brain injury. (Video by Nyier Abdou/The Star-Ledger)

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[thesmudger1234]

when i saw the baby in the dads arm thats gave a tear

[pfctjd]

These women are amazing! I wish more people were like them.

[ryanthecrazyman21]

i am 19 and still here. i didnt know the injery wajs either until i had my first real wake up and im still trying to understeand them. therepys are hard and my family helps more than ill ever relize. you 2 are so strong that i cant tell you how much i respect you. all i do is as much research that i can so i am more comprtable. i went into the haspital at a 5 on the scale for 7 weeks. thank you for sharing clip

[daniaqoon]

yu two are truley wonderful women to stick by their sides like that is somethinq else ; im so sorry this happend stay strong and by their sides they need yu ! !

[jffhrtsn]

What a remarkable story of courage and devotion. As a tbi survivor,I sence what the husbands are going through,and the emotional roller-coaster ride the wives are having. The wives are angels........

[The391956]

Sweet Wife

[UndercoverCracker]

This is amazing. The perfect picture of true good in the world. Terrorists are the picture of true evil. See the difference people?

[kibaluv3r]

You wives are amazing, and I wish so fucking bad tht ur husbands get better!!!!it's been a year since the vid was posted, I hope to god they're better.

[STHFGDBY]

This video is heartbreaking to watch, Those women are amazing, I'm not married but if I was to get married I couldn't want a better partner than these women..

[serinareneemedrano12]

so sad for the men and the women for both because not only where these men harmed while defending our country they are forever traped in their own bodies forever unless a miracle happens and i feel so heart whelmed for these strong women theat stick by their men every second of the day tat says a whole lot about these women my heart goes out ot all of them and your all in my prayers

[muffypiggy]

@Bender2522

assisted breathing. Literally a tube down the throat into the lungs breathing for you because you can't for some reason.