What it feels like to have a stroke
Wired is reporting on this year’s TED conference, highlighting the most interesting participants and attempting to get across the same content as in their talk. One such participant is Jill Bolte Taylor, who recounted her experience of a stroke she suffered one dozen years earlier.
So on the morning of December 10, 1996, Taylor awoke with pounding,
caustic pain behind her left eye. It came in waves, gripping and
releasing her. Nonetheless, she started her morning routine, oblivious
to what was happening. She jumped on an exercise machine and looked
down at her hands and says they looked like primitive claws to her. She
didn’t recognize her body as hers.
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