Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

They gave me anti-inflammatories.

They gave me steroids, which are anti-inflammatory drugs.

They already had, at the first hospital that I went to, they already had a CAT scan.

They knew I was having a hemorrhage.

They also knew that I was employed by Harvard.

They are all Harvard Department of Neuro.

neurology.

So I was considered a VIP.

So I know that that helped me from their perspective.

So they stopped the bleed and then they decided I needed to have brain surgery.

And so two and a half weeks later, they come head open and they removed the blood clot that was the size of a golf ball.

And they sewed me up and sent me home and said, we have no idea how much you will ever get back.

But, you know, that's now your job is to try to recover.

And I have a mother who is an absolute angel in my life, and she dropped her world, and she came to me, and she surrounded me in an environment of love and let's watch and see what could I learn, what was in the way of my learning.

And what could she do to rearrange and to literally teach me, starting with, she recognized I was now an infant in a woman's body.

And we began with, I couldn't see color.

She had to teach me colors were different.

She had to teach me how to make sound in order to be able to have language.

She had to teach me vocabulary.

She had to teach me how to walk.