• Parents raise their daughter for a second time

    Jim Seida / msnbc.com

    Bill Briggs puts leg braces on his daughter Andrea Briggs in Denver, Colo, May 10.

    By Jim Seida

     

    I recently had the privilege of spending time with Andrea Briggs and her family while working on a story about Andrea’s recovery from a traumatic brain injury.  Briggs was critically injured in a car accident on July 26, 2011, while she and a friend were driving to an ice cream store. What I originally thought was going to be a health story was, in fact, a story about love.  Watch the video below to meet Andrea, her parents, and to see their remarkable story.

    Two parents help their daughter re-learn how to live, from walking to talking, after she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident.

    Bringing Andrea back from brain injury: a father's story

    Jim Seida / msnbc.com

    Andrea Briggs grimaces in pain while her father times her physical therapy session at Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colo, Friday, April 27.

  • Vadim Ghirda / AP

    A bird is seen behind barbed wire fences in Fort 13 of the Jilava jail in Jilava, Romania, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. Dozens of former political prisoners gathered on Human Rights Day to commemorate the anti-communist fighters, parachuted by United States air force planes in the 1950s to organize a resistance movement, who were detained and executed in 1953 at the Jilava jail.

    Former political prisoners gather to honor those who helped

    By Meredith Birkett

    The graphic shapes and lines of this photo caught my eye.