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Damasio cites the case of a young woman who at age 30, shortly after the birth of her second child, entered a netherworld of nonstop epileptic seizures. The seizures damaged a region of the brain called the hippocampus, so that afterward she could no longer recall the simplest things, like having put clothes in the washer or having given her kids permission to visit friends. For six years she has lived in a free-floating present, unable to form new memories or envision the future. Her extended consciousness has been sadly diminished...
...They tried gently to free me but couldn't. Later I was told that some of them formed a semicircle by the car and began to chant, trying to sing me back to life. A Filipina nurse from the Bidyadanga settlement presently joined them and (I afterward learned) wept as she heard me mechanically counting aloud. I thought I was trying to stay conscious; she thought I was counting off my last moments. For all I know, we were both right...
...other hand, there's Carol Pighini, 43, a mother of three from Florida. Bothered by some broken capillaries on her face, she picked a dermatologist in Tampa through an ad for gentler Erbium YAG laser treatments. To her horror, her face blistered for three days afterward, her eyes were swollen shut, and pits formed in her skin. "When the laser started hurting, I asked what was happening, and they said they had 'turned it up.'" She says with a sigh, "All this because I couldn't stand wearing makeup." Lancer, the Beverly Hills dermatologist, is now removing the damage with...
...about the whole deadly scheme beforehand. "This is an Oklahoma City judge who?s part of the community that this traumatized," says Cohen. "He?s obviously passionate about this. If you?re going to be tough, this is the crime to be tough about." Said a battle-weary McGuire afterward: "Might as well just get the ball rolling on the appeal...
Scream at the top of your lungs afterward...