Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

He recognizes it is me.

It is I. And he comes to my home.

And back in those days, we had managed care.

So you have to go to the right place or you don't get coverage.

So he took me there and then they took a picture of my brain and then they they put me in an ambulance and sent me to Mass General Hospital.

And as and I'm still curled up in a little fetal ball going, hold on, hold on.

And I was slowing down and I knew that I was becoming weaker and weaker.

And I wondered how detached from my own ability, my own body can a person become before they can never get back inside this tiny little body?

Because I felt that I was literally energetically as big as the universe.

It showed a... Major hemorrhage in the left half of the brain.

Yeah, about that size.

Actually, it was a little bigger than that on that day.

But two and a half weeks later when they removed... That's why we have a golf ball.

A golf ball-sized blood clot from the left half of my brain two and a half weeks later, December 27th.

And then I woke up and I had this huge hemorrhage.

I mean, I had this huge scar, but my mother comes rushing in and she says, speak to me, speak to me, because this is my language.

If my language cells are gone,

I will have no language, and I will struggle the rest of my life for language.

And I whispered to her, I'm better.

I'm better.