Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

And then we have these little capillary networks in between.

Yeah, this is an ischemic stroke.

I had the hemorrhagic stroke.

So when you think about stroke, most people think, oh, blood clot.

And the blood clot blocks a... So the thing about arteries is they taper, taper, taper, taper, taper until they get down to the capillary level.

which is where the red blood cells kind of line up in single file and pass through that.

And it's a very low pressure system.

And then it absorbs back up into the vein.

Well, what I had was the hemorrhagic stroke

and a blood vessel exploded.

And when it exploded, then the blood goes out into the extracellular matrix, which is extracellular, between the cells.

And the cells cannot function.

Blood is essentially poison to cellular communication.

So it's no good.

And whatever blood, wherever it goes, those cells start going offline.

And then as that hemorrhage grows inside of the brain across time, more and more cells

are becoming incapacitated.

I had nothing.

I didn't even have me.

I had no Jill Bolte-Taylor because she was over in the left hemisphere.