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“Speech therapy is an art that deserves to be more widely known. You cannot imagine the acrobatics your tongue mechanically performs in...
Gail Buckley
Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories
“Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.” - Jean-Dominique Bauby Jean-Dominique Bauby...
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Gail Buckley
Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?
“Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?” - Jean-Dominique Bauby Jean-Dominique Bauby quote from The...
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Gail Buckley
For half an hour, the machine that regulates my feeding tube has been beeping out into the void
“For half an hour, the machine that regulates my feeding tube has been beeping out into the void. I cannot imagine anything so inane or...
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Gail Buckley
Far from such din, when blessed silence returns...
“Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be...
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Gail Buckley
I am fading away. Slowly but surely.
“I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life...
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Gail Buckley
Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, deaf, deprived of all pleasures and reduced to the existence
“Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to...
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Gail Buckley
In the past it was known as a 'massive stroke' and you simply died.
In the past it was known as a 'massive stroke' and you simply died. But improved resuscitation techniques have now prolonged and refined...
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