Stroke of Insight

 

In July we braved a patio gathering at Marsha's home to discuss

her book "A Stroke of Insight" by Jill Bolte Taylor,

In 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor who is a Harvard trained brain

scientist and a Hoosier suffered a massive stroke which

affected the left hemisphere of her brain.

She could not walk, talk, read, nor Write,.
She alternated between the euphoria of the right brain and

the logical left brain, recognized she was having a stroke, With the help

of her mother and a revelation that she could use her right

brain to achieve peace and well being she recovered after 8 years.

She returned to being a a teaching professor at Indiana School

of Medicine in Bloomington Indiana, She is also the national

spokesperson for the mentally ill for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource 

Center (the Brain Bank). 

Anyone who is a caregiver or related to a stroke patient should

have to read this book so full of little insights as to what the

patient is experiencing.

This was a truly amazing story about a woman who was named one of

the most influential women in 2008 by Time magazine.

Those who attended were Sarah, Marsha, Kathy, Carol, Betsy, Madeleine,

Kathy, Laura and Nettie.

Laura Derrickson chose the next book entitled "The Other Einstein" by

Marie Benedict.