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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

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I am still in recovery from full body neuropathy, usually I just call it essentially paralysis. I found this book to be very informational in my own recovery in my fifth year. It helped me add more clarity to the struggles that I have been going through. I also thought the book was very helpful in understanding what a friend is going through in her recovery after her brain surgery where there was a leakage that occurred. Caregivers and patients alike will benefit from this very well written book. I breezed through it in one sitting.

Enlightening and inspiring while quite understandable for a lay person. Jill Taylor's journey back to health speaks to the many issues surrounding healing: spiritual, positive attitude,listening to your own inner voice and the support of caring people. After I listened to the CD version from the library narrated by the author, I wanted a copy for myself.

Everyone who has a loved one suffereing from brain injury (stroke, alzheiner's, trauma, parkinson's etc. ) will find this a heart opening mind expanding and perhaps practical and useful account of the inner awareness of a stroke victim from the moment of onset to the attainment of a major recovery goal. In the genre of "Johnny Got His Gun" and the "Diving Bell and the Butterfly" this book reminds us that stroke victims and others deemed to be unaware by medical professionals most likely do have continuing awareness and an ongoing spiritual and intellectual life. But this offers more than that beacuse she describes a process where her recovery of specific knowledge and function elements involved first an awareness that it used to exist, then a persistent "search" for it in the attic of her brain and sometimes a complete and almost instantaneous recovery of it when she found the "right door". For example, well along in her recovery she suddenly realizes she has "lost" color when her mother reminds her that it's helpful to sort the pieces of a puzzle by color. (And color returned). This account also underscores the contiuing essential importance of loved one's as companions and as partners in healing. In this book her remarkable mother is Jill's very essential partner in a recovery that might nver have happened had she relied only on what is offerede as current practice by medical institutions and practitioners. Her mother's role is a testament to the power of mindful presence and self emptying, selfless love. Buy the hardcover because this is a book you will want to keep and share..buy a copy for your local library.

I've read this book four times! It's small--but she packs so much information into it that I get another gem out of every read through. Excellent for anyone.

We recently purchased this book for a family friend whose spouse had a stroke. This book was helpful to my husband who is a 23 year stroke survivor and he immediately wanted to send this book out to help the family understand the stroke patient's needs.

This book was a gift to someone who recently had a stroke. He has told me that it was very informative, and that he wished he had had it before the stroke because he might have handled things differently. One example is that a person shouldn't go to sleep after having a stroke. I intend to read this book because, who knows? It could happen to any of us, and knowledge about a situation is better than going into it with a total lack of awareness.

THIS IS NOT AN EASY READ. BUT IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE TO READ AND KNOW THE INFORMATION. SHE IS AN AMAZING PERSON.

The book starts off good, a neuroanatomist (brain scientist) who in her 30's has a stroke and a severe one at that. However one-quarter of the way through to the end she is too much into her innerself, her left brain hemisphere relating to her right brain hemisphere. I don't think a stroke victim reading this cares what the ying and yang think and inneract, I believe they just want to know how to cope and get better. I rate the book just o.k. What I got out of it was that even though it took about seven years, she fully recovered.