Every Sunday afternoon CBC Radio broadcasts a program called Tapestry. It is repeated again at 10:00 pm on the following Thursday. The host, Mary Hynes, interviewed the author of “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal journey,” by Jill Bolter Taylor. Tuning into http://www.cbc.ca, the author spoke of her experience with what was later diagnosed as a stroke.
She tells of her collapse when she fell from her chair and realized a possible stroke might be happening. Slowly she managed to reach her telephone and the card that contained a phone number to call an ambulance. Her mind interpreted the telephone number on the card as “pixels” and it was with great patience that she was able to interpret each number and complete the call.
This is especially relevant for anyone who is living alone so they will be more able to handle such an event in case it happens to them in the future. Her whole body felt so weak, she felt a strong urge to go to sleep at that moment. She explained further: “A voice in my head said “If you let yourself go to sleep now you will never wake up.”
The way this Harvard lecturer explained the events that followed is better understood if you are able to hear her explain it herself on the repeat program next Thursday and could possibly save your life in the future. Mary Hynes, the host of the program mentioned that it also can be heard as a podcast. I plan to listen to it again myself next Thursday, December l0th at l0:00 pm. The way our brains work is so fascinating.
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