“I didn’t really know what was happening. Romero has her own experience with head injuries, after sustaining a TBI snowboarding while she was in high school. It was a pretty serious brain injury,” she told CNN Sport. Romero and co-director Anna Wilder Burns wanted to use Speak’s story to raise awareness of the impact of brain injuries. Throughout her treatment, Speak realized she had been living with the effects of her untreated head injuries for most of her adult life.

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Persons: Becca Speak, ’ …, ”, she’s, Jordyn Romero, Romero, “, –, Anna Wilder Burns, Burns, ’ ” Burns, I’ve, ” “ Organizations: CNN, Billabong, CNN Sport, US Centers for Disease Control, CDC, Nature