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roro
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i saw "the diving bell and the butterfly" last night and it was very inspiring.

for those of us feeling sorry for ourselves (me) it really helps to see what someone can accomplish with little physical means. just what I needed.

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Lymetoo
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What's it about? Did you buy it on DVD?

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lymielauren28
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Roro,

Thanks for the recomendation. I try as often as possible to watch comedy and anything inspiring.

Marie McQauh's video, as heartbreaking as it is, and others like it really help to put things in perspective for me.

I'm sick, no doubt. But I can still walk, work some, etc. Reminds me to be thankful for what I can do rather than focusing on what I can't.

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roro
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I rented it. its about a guy with locked-in syndrome.

Lauren - it is sad, but that is exactly what I came away with to be thankful for what I can still do.

just a few days ago I was complaining about not wanting to live anymore because I am not who I used to be, and here is this guy who can do nothing and finds inspiration.

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Lymetoo
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From Wikipedia:

[edit] Notable case
Parisian journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby had a stroke in 1995, and when he awoke 20 days later he found that his body was almost completely paralyzed: he could control only his left eyelid.

By blinking this eye he dictated a letter at a time and in this way he wrote his memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.[8] The 2007 film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a film adaptation of Bauby's memoir.

[edit] Cultural references

(1844) In Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, Monsieur Noirtier de Villeforte becomes locked-in after suffering a stroke.

(1868) In Emile Zola's Th�r�se Raquin, Th�r�se's aunt Madame Raquin develops locked-in syndrome after a stroke.[9]

(2001) Bernard Werber - L'ultime Secret (The Ultimate Secret): one side of two parallel stories is about broken life of a modest bank clerk in Nice, Jean-Louis Martin, victim of a car accident to Locked-In Syndrome ("Immured alive", whose brain continues to function, the rest of the nerve system being paralysed) (list of works)

(2003-2008) Novels by Jim Kelly in which the character Laura suffers from locked-in-syndrome following automobile accident and subsequent coma. Titles to date are The Water Clock, The Fire Baby, The Moon Tunnel, The Coldest Blood, and The Skeleton Man.

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