Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

Well, when you look at where my hemorrhage happened, it happened.

So language, the creation of sound and language, dog.

Dog is a sound.

It's going to come out of.

Broca's area.

And then Wernicke's area back here is going to place meaning on that sound.

And my hemorrhage was impacting this whole area.

And in there with language is numbers.

9-1-1.

Didn't exist for me.

Was not an option.

Didn't exist for me.

It'd be kind of like I say to you, what's 8,322 times 4 million?

It doesn't exist for you until you figure it out.

Exactly.

So 9-1-1 didn't exist for me.

So I had to, when I would come back into the left hemisphere consciousness, then I would, I got to my phone and I have a phone pad here and I spent 45 minutes waffling in and out right hemisphere, left hemisphere.

And finally, I found my business card that had my phone number of work.

And I had to set the pad of the phone pad up against right next to the business card and match the shapes, the squiggles, in order to figure out how to call my office because I had no idea what numbers were.

I said, this is Jill.