My Stroke Of Insight Analysis

While reading My Stroke of Insight, I was astonished by Jill Bolte Taylor’s positive outlook with her CVA and how well she recovered. Thoughts raced continuously throughout my mind with each page that I read in her book. Each chapter amazed me more. As an instructor, I would have my students to ask themselves whether they felt that Jill’s positive standpoint with her condition affected her overall recovery along with the time duration, if they think that the people surrounding Jill affected her recovery with how they treated her, and why do they think Jill waited so long to seek help while she was experiencing signs of a CVA? People have said that the outlook one has on life can affect life itself. Do you believe that Jill’s positive outlook …show more content…
People walk by continuously but despite your best efforts to scream and make them see you, no one notices you are there. The people do not know how to help you because they cannot see you and do not know what you are experiencing. Now imagine being in Jill’s condition and unable to communicate. If doctors and specialists spoke to you as if you were a corpse or deaf, would that hinder your ability to heal and recover in any way? I would ask my students to picture themselves in Jill’s position and imagine how frustrating it must have been to be talked to like she was not even there. I would ask them what techniques they would use to make patients like Jill feel more comfortable and allow for them to have a better sense of understanding. I would want them to identify whether they felt that her treatment of care affected her recovery or not. I would then share that I believe that if Jill had been spoken to with compassion and understanding at a reasonable tone, that she would have felt more comfortable and at ease and could possibly recover faster. If Jill had been spoken to and acknowledged as a regular person, she would have spent less time being worn down by loud and energetic people and more time resting and allowing her body time to heal. Jill needed to be treated with a calm demeanor, a low-tone of voice, a compassionate soft touch, and by someone who spoke to her as if everything were going to be just …show more content…
She knew the human brain like the back of her hand. She studied strokes and many other conditions which may affect the brain, but why did Jill wait so long to seek help once she realized she was having a stroke? If she understood that her brain was filling with blood and destroying different bodily functions by the minute, why would she sit so long and allow her stroke to take what she had made of her life and possibly destroy it? I would like for my students to use their insight and describe why they may think that she prolonged seeking help. All of these questions raced throughout my mind while she was describing the deterioration she was experiencing. I could not help but to wonder if she used this as a learning opportunity. She had studied cases and effects from a CVA which allowed me to believe that she knew exactly what was going on, but she wanted to use this first-hand experience to be able learn and understand more about strokes. I think she recognized this as an opportunity for education. What better way to practice a profession then to experience part of the caseload? I also believed that she enjoyed the euphoric trip and sense of