{"id":204,"date":"2026-03-14T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/?p=204"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:40:58","slug":"the-number-7-understanding-the-severity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/2026\/03\/14\/the-number-7-understanding-the-severity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Number 7: Understanding the Severity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When people ask about my TBI, they often ask how “bad” it was. In the medical world, they use a snapshot called the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)<\/strong> to measure consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On that scale, I was a 7<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What does a 7 actually mean?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • The Category:<\/strong> It\u2019s officially classified as Severe<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The State:<\/strong> Anything 8 or below is clinically considered a coma. At a 7, I wasn’t just “asleep”\u2014my brain had essentially shut down its arousal systems to protect itself.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The Fight:<\/strong> A score this low usually means you can’t protect your own airway or respond to the world around you. It\u2019s the point where doctors and machines have to take over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Why I’m sharing this<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    I mention the “7” not for the shock value, but for the perspective<\/strong>. Looking at where I am today\u2014back at work and building this site\u2014compared to where I was on that scale is a reminder of how far the human brain can travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Recovery isn’t just about getting back to “normal”; it’s about acknowledging how deep the hole was and celebrating every inch of the climb out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    —<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When people ask about my TBI, they often ask how “bad” it was. In the medical world, they use a snapshot called the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) to measure consciousness. On that scale, I was a 7. What does a 7 actually mean? Why I’m sharing this I mention the “7” not for the shock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27,21,19,25,26,20,24,11],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-27","tag-awareness","tag-brain","tag-coma","tag-glasgow","tag-injury","tag-severe","tag-tbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timpossible.com\/timtbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}