Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

And we have forgotten that.

And for me, it took me, this whole stroke experience took me straight back to the part of my brain, that right thinking part that connects me in that transformation or that transcendence experience of being so much more than just a little human being running around the planet.

Oh my gosh.

Life is this miracle.

And it makes me feel awe and wonder.

It excites me so much.

And if everybody had that and recognized that and could grasp that and hold that, imagine the different world we'd be living in.

Eight years.

Yes.

Every day, every breath, everything, I thought of nothing else other than

what can I do and what's in the way of being able to do what I want to do next and rebuilding using what I had in the right hemisphere to rebuild the circuits.

I knew I had language.

I knew I could speak.

I knew I had vocabulary.

I knew I had ideas.

I knew somewhere in there I had numbers.

It took four years for me to even understand what's a one.

I mean, wow.

Wow, I did not die that day.

I did not die that day.