Dispatches from the Country of the Sick

Those of us, like me, who have always enjoyed good health still read accounts of those who are and who have been ill as messages from another country we never want to go to much as we wish the inhabitants well.

Cardiologist Dr. Thomas Graboys writes what it's like to be trapped in your own body with Parkinson's disease and betrayed by your own mind with an Alzheimer's-like dementia at 62.  My Daily Battle. proves to be much easier with the support of a loving wife.

A riveting account of a brain scientist who suffered a stroke offers far more reports Tara Parker-Pope.

After you watch Jill Bolte Taylor give her 18 minute address to the TED conference last month, you will never think of the right and left hemispheres of the brain in the same way.  She calls it her Stroke of Insight.  I call it a must-watch.