tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205556462251851125.post4027674994214922525..comments2024-03-14T01:22:29.342-05:00Comments on The Preemie Experiment: VacationThePreemie Experimenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15882375368535807238noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205556462251851125.post-9974045483096018712008-04-13T18:39:00.000-05:002008-04-13T18:39:00.000-05:00From Helen Harrison:"[brain injury] also obliteraa...From Helen Harrison:<BR/><BR/>"[brain injury] also obliteraates memeory" ...<BR/><BR/>and wreaks havoc on typing skills!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205556462251851125.post-64589127335368781002008-04-13T18:36:00.000-05:002008-04-13T18:36:00.000-05:00Helen Harrison says:The NY Times has a review of a...Helen Harrison says:<BR/><BR/>The NY Times has a review of a book relevant to the video referenced in this thread.<BR/><BR/>The book, reviewed by Mary Roach, is entitled _Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath_. The author is a brain injury case worker, Michael Paul Mason.<BR/><BR/>Mason is described by the reviewer as the "anti-Oliver Sacks... he deals not with neurological exotica, but with workaday broken brains...<BR/><BR/>"No one is mistaking his wife for a hat. The people in this book are having seizures, running after their loved ones with kitchen knives, waking up in unfamiliar towns with no idea how <BR/>they got there... <BR/><BR/>"Mason returns again and again to the notion of self: 'What are we other than our brains? Is there a part of me that can't be changed by a brain injury?' The answer to the last question seems to be no. We are what our brains make us. Brain injury bears this out: it recasts personality, fogs thought, obliteraates memeory. Even mystical experiences can sometimes be explained as the results of neurological phenomena; both religious visions and profound deja vu can be symptoms of simple partial epilepsy... [often, it is from left temporal lobe epilepsy --HH]<BR/><BR/>"From reading Oliver Sacks, I had come to think of neurological dysfunction as an almost fanciful affliction, its victims like characters in a work of magical realism. Mason has provided a needed, and sobering, account of reality."<BR/><BR/>HelenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205556462251851125.post-43672264263596680352008-04-11T02:53:00.000-05:002008-04-11T02:53:00.000-05:00a little belated but i hope at this moment you are...a little belated but i hope at this moment you are blissfully resting, reconnecting and enjoying a well deserved vacation!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15868536354957624922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205556462251851125.post-89492633424984720682008-04-07T16:02:00.000-05:002008-04-07T16:02:00.000-05:00I am also a Mom of a preemie baby, born at 32 week...I am also a Mom of a preemie baby, born at 32 weeks. I came across your blog today and find the content so interesting and can't wait to start reading more of your ethics stories. Please stop by my blog as well, my husband and I write stories about our experience when our daughter was first born. Some are emotional and some just for fun. I will visit again soon. Have a great trip!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205556462251851125.post-7937580660132651692008-04-07T09:28:00.000-05:002008-04-07T09:28:00.000-05:00Best wishes for a good, needed respite...Best wishes for a good, needed respite...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205556462251851125.post-85308953459095204532008-04-06T21:54:00.000-05:002008-04-06T21:54:00.000-05:00Hi Stacy,I hope you're having a fantastic vacation...Hi Stacy,<BR/><BR/>I hope you're having a fantastic vacation! And I'm glad to have company in the inability to comment on the previous post. I read it all and I read several of the earlier comments, but couldn't bring myself to say anything. It's been a rough few months here as well...<BR/><BR/>Clearly I could use a vacation too! Hope you're getting some real R&R in!<BR/><BR/>Stacey (the one with the 'e')MommaWriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05179471737837620160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205556462251851125.post-42743805529325471712008-04-06T14:06:00.000-05:002008-04-06T14:06:00.000-05:00Helen Harrison comments:Have a great vacation Stac...Helen Harrison comments:<BR/><BR/>Have a great vacation Stacy!<BR/><BR/>I just saw the video. It was most interesting!<BR/><BR/>I wonder though, if, for comparison's sake, we could hear from someone who had a right hemisphere stroke.<BR/><BR/>HelenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205556462251851125.post-51905935145957668872008-04-06T06:46:00.000-05:002008-04-06T06:46:00.000-05:00THANK you for the video. It was fascinating AND i...THANK you for the video. It was fascinating AND inspiring.<BR/><BR/>JoanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205556462251851125.post-7721718735290875922008-04-05T21:19:00.000-05:002008-04-05T21:19:00.000-05:00Hey there I am also a mom to a preemie, Tristan, b...Hey there I am also a mom to a preemie, Tristan, born at 28 weeks.<BR/>Please stop by my blog and I plan to add your link so I can visit again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205556462251851125.post-15417279116258986712008-04-05T19:47:00.000-05:002008-04-05T19:47:00.000-05:00Stacy, I hope you have a wonderful (and absolutely...Stacy, I hope you have a wonderful (and absolutely deserved) vacation.Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10465076498021100744noreply@blogger.com