"On 8
December 1995 at the age of 43, Jean Dominique Bauby suffered a massive stroke.
When he woke up twenty days later, he found he was entirely speechless; he
could only blink his left eyelid. Called locked-in syndrome, this is a
condition wherein the mental faculties remain intact but most of the body is
paralyzed. In Bauby's case his mouth, arms, and legs were paralyzed, and he
lost 27 kilograms (60 lb) in the first 20 weeks after his stroke.
Despite his
condition, he wrote the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by
blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the
alphabet over and over again using a system called partner-assisted
scanning. Bauby composed and edited the book entirely in his head, and dictated
it one letter at a time. To make dictation more efficient, Bauby's
interlocutor, Claude Mendibil, listed the letters in accordance with their
frequency in the French language. The book was published in France on 7 March
1997. Bauby died suddenly from pneumonia ten days after the publication of his
book, and is buried in a family grave at the Père-Lachaisecemetery in Paris, France "
- Wikipedia
In
practically the most difficult state, the man wrote a book. Again, it shows
that our capabilities are only bounded by our thoughts. Think and act!
~Kashyap
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