Tuesday, April 29, 2008

traumatic brain injury

Who am I if I lose the ability to do my job? Not if I lose my job, but the ability to do it. Who am I if my mind, not my memory, betrays me? What if I have memories but no access to their how they got there? What makes my personality? I can be traumatically changed by a short circuit in my head. Electrical impulses work sometimes, sometimes not. My memory wanders off sometimes, it’s small and shouldn’t be out on its own. But the basic abilities, the likes and dislikes, the frameworks for reasoning. What when they disappear?

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