Bernie Goggins: A Profile of Life after Brain Injury

For a glimpse into the life of St. Joseph parishioner, Bernie Goggins, it might make some sense to look at pre and post July 27, 2002. That’s the day Goggins was mowing his front yard, stepped out into the road for a moment, was hit by a van and sent flying through the air. “Thankfully I was caught by the street, or I’d still be falling,” said Goggins. “Forty feet and a month later,” as Goggins described it, he was still unconscious in the Trauma Unit of Vanderbilt Hospital, having endured … [Read more...]