“The important thing is that you’re okay.” These are the words I overheard while passing by a person on a cell phone. Knowing nothing more about the individuals involved, these seem to me words one never really wants to hear, and one only says them when the person on the other end has gone through a traumatic experience that has resulting in them, at least in some way, not being okay. Was the person in a traffic accident or did that person observe a violent interchange? We’ll never know. Neither will we know when that person will be okay. We break easy, and sometimes repair slowly.
Along those same lines, I commend to your attention an interview by Terry Gross with Jill Bolte Taylor, a researcher at Indiana University on the brain who had a stroke that impacted the left side of her brain. Her story of recovery is nothing short of remarkable.