Life After a Brain Hemorrhage
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The Guardian shares excerpts from a new book by Edwyn Collins's wife about life after his brain hemorrhage:
The way it was for Edwyn, for Edwyn and me, was deeper and stranger. Before we could even think about his cleverness, his fabulous sarcasm, his highly-developed sense of the absurd (where they had gone? Were they coming back?), we had to wrestle with questions of simple identity.
It's impossible to imagine what it felt like to be inside Edwyn's brain as he struggled to return to awareness, to self-knowledge. He describes it thus: "I was peaceful and tranquil at first. No thoughts at all. Edwyn Collins, that's me, I knew that. But everything else, it's gone." Brain damage was an especial dread. For two years I would not even utter the words. I used any euphemism I could think of to avoid describing what had happened to Edwyn in these unthinkable terms. Edwyn was much more courageous. His honesty had not deserted him, nor his bluntness. He confronted his new self unflinchingly. "Brain damage, I think. I'm a moron."
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Comments (4)
Mmmm. Yes. I've been mulling over some comments, but they would been superfluous. Wow.
Wow indeed. Is he back to something resembling normal?
I actually don't know, but the excerpts mention a slight personality change.
Didn't know of this, nicki. Sad news, but he's still with us and, hopefully, rebuilding.