Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

And then I'm asking myself, can I drive?

Can I drive?

And in that instant, my right arm went totally paralyzed by my side.

And that's when I'm realizing, oh my gosh, paralysis, a warning sign of stroke.

Oh my God, I'm having a stroke.

And then the next thing my brain says is, wow, this is so cool.

How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?

So that alpha personality, it was just really saying, okay, we're having a stroke.

We'll do this for a few weeks.

We'll learn what we can learn, and then we'll go back to work.

And then it took about 45 minutes in order for me to actually make a phone call and get help.

Wow, like what a powerful story.

Well, there are.

So, first of all, there are different kinds of stroke, two different kinds of stroke primarily.

One is hemorrhagic.

And when you have a hemorrhagic stroke, blood vessels come together, they break, and the blood seeps out into the tissue.

And that was the kind of stroke I had.

And specifically, I had what we call an arteriovenous malformation.

And this is essentially a, you have an artery that is a high pressure system that comes in and usually then it tapers down to a very small space and then all the red blood cells line up through the capillary.

And then at the other end of that, you have a low pressure vein and that vein then literally absorbs liquid