In 2008, a young Russian woman Taisia Sidorova had a severe
car accident that caused so much damage to her skull and brain, that surgeons
removed the entire left hemisphere of the brain, and rebuilt her skull. (Thanks to nhne-pulse.org for story.) She was in a coma and expected to die. However, with a lot of support from her
family, she emerged from the coma, and healed remarkably.
It sounds like her family put a tremendous amount of energy
into prayer, massage, and talking to her.
It’s not entirely clear from the original Daily Mail article, but it
sounds like she had to gradually re-build her speech and movement. But that’s not all!
Ms. Sidorova had never had any interest in drawing before
her accident. She started to sketch as
a form of therapy for fine motor skills during her recovery. Three years after the accident, she also
paints. Her art teacher says Ms.
Sidorova’s artistic ability before and after the accident is like comparing two
different people. She now has a natural
talent, and is at the top of her class.
One of the doctors who treated her commented: “The human brain is a remarkable thing — in
her case the part that remains seems to have developed to compensate for the
missing part — and at the same time given her a previously undiscovered talent
for art.”
Of course, as someone who has gone through neuro damage
myself, I would never wish this path on anyone, but it’s so fascinating and
heartening to see how neurological damage can make astonishing neurological
development both necessary and possible that might not have happened
otherwise. This may be an aspect of
what happens when psychic opening follows a neurological incident.
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