Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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And the volume just reverberated in my brain.
It was so loud.
The sound was amplified and it pushed me against the wall.
But when the volume hit, I'm a neuroanatomist.
So what that means is that I'm teaching students about all of the anatomy here and which fibers are coming in and going where and what is the tracks of everything.
And so sound comes into the ears and it goes right
right down to the pons region of our brain down here.
And this is where life and death is.
This is where those cells, if you're going to inspire, you need your pons and your medulla in order to have those cells functioning.
So when mine were being disturbed, that was the moment I realized I've got a problem.
This is a grave problem.
This could kill me.
So I got out of the shower.
I dressed mechanically, just dressed.
dressed.
I'm still going to work.
And then my right arm went totally paralyzed by my side.
And it's really strange when a limb goes paralyzed.
It doesn't just like drop down.
It goes, boom.