People living plants can still write books and talk

Although living in a six-month botanical state, with weak left winks, Jean-Dominique Bauby remained awake, releasing the memoir 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' (Diving suit). and butterfly) . With strange writing and hard work for 2 months, losing more than 200,000 winks, each taking about 2 minutes to write, Bauby has produced a book that is very moving around the world. JDBauby is the first living witness to the secret of the subconscious who deems 'dead '.

Living soul in the cover of 'death'

Jean-Dominique Bauby, 43 years old, former Editor-in-Chief Elle Magazine - a famous worldwide women's magazine published in dozens of countries, is a rich, successful, voice also has a good sound. Nobody could think that one day those feet were buried in a hospital bed, the brain was blocked, and the voice could not be lifted. On December 8, 1995, a cerebral vascular accident caused Jean-Dominique Bauby to sink into a deep coma and become disabled when he was new. 43. Bauby became paralyzed and lost his language ability. All the simplest bodily activities, such as eating and breathing, need the help of machines.

Bauby's disease, also known as 'Locked-in syndrome' , is a rare form of vascular obstruction . However, in the 1,200 cases of hospital blockage in the hospital that Bauby was lying on, the only one who had a different expression. His left eye still moved, though weak. But because the damaged place was concentrated just below the brain area of ​​intellectual ability, this person was still aware of what he was thinking, hearing clearly and seeing normally. Paying attention to their eye movements, it was believed that the victim was unconscious and awake.

And it was this last moving eye with the free mind that became the connection, connecting him to life and the people around him. He used his eyes and mind to fly like a butterfly in his journey to find his own memory.

Works elaborately and very toxic, strange

'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' is written in a strange, poisonous way. Each word, phrase, sentence, page of the book is formed by combining words through blinks. Nurse Claude Mendibil was sent by Robert Laffont Publishing, an assistant to Bauby from the beginning until the memoir was completed. With a row of letters arranged in order of priority ESARINTULOMDPCFBVHGJQ-XYXKW, Claude Mendibil will only turn the letters in this table. If you agree with the letter, Jean-Do Bauby winks once to say 'yes' , 2 to say 'wrong' and that letter will be written by Claude Mendibil. Just like that, the letters are about to form words, into sentences, into paragraphs and eventually into books. Strange writing and hard work for two months (August 7, 1996), it took more than 200,000 winks and each took about two minutes to write, gave birth to a book with 132 touching pages. Strong worldwide.

The book portrays Mr. Bauby's own portrait during the paralysis days in the hospital, in the liberal yesterday's memories and pages full of regret when he cannot see his child growing up, unable to hug they are like other fathers . Most of the story in the book is about nostalgia for life, comparing and embarrassing themselves with the cartoon toad that the author sees on television, imagining himself Noirtier de Villefort character in A. Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo. Then he likened himself like a person trapped in a heavy swimsuit, unable to move under the deep water. But, literature itself, the very day he was 'living' with his eyelids up and down actually saved his soul, causing it to escape and become a free-wing butterfly.

'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or Bauby's thoughts make the reader completely surprised and admired. In the context of illness, he could still be humorous and optimistic. There is also a spirit of love and respect for your life. The love of life with Bauby is expressed through one thing: the smell of a spicy potato. Bauby has gone a long way to 'sunshine like pouring fire' on a wheelchair, going through 'three hardy plastic parking lots, making the ass go through to be arduous'. The goal of that challenge is to sit in the wind, breathe the smell that most people are extremely uncomfortable with, and 'breathe forever without the smell of potato chips'.

After 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' (in French Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) was published for 2 days in France, JDBauby died. The memoir created a stir in France about the writer's extraordinary strength and became the best-selling European book in 1997, translated and published in over 30 countries worldwide. In Vietnam, the memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is published by Thai Ha Bookstore and translated by Labor - Social Publishing House in 2010.

In May 1997, just two months after the book was released, the film adapted from the book of the same name by director Julian Schnabel was released, and received more than 41 international awards in a row: the Director Award. Best (Cannes Film Festival 2007, Golden Globe Award 2008), Best Male Actor Award for actor Mathieu Amalric plays Jean-Dominique (Cesar Award 2008), especially for good foreign film Best (Golden Globe Award 2008).

Secret of the plant's subconscious mind

Many people believe that people who live plants like people have died and are no longer conscious, but the truth is not so. JDBauby is the first living witness to the secret of the subconscious who deems 'dead'.

In one of his studies, Dr. Adrian Owen of the University of Cambridge (UK) for the first time proved that some victims living in plant conditions can not only know what people around say. There is also the ability to answer simple questions. In an experiment, Dr. Owen used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on a patient, who recorded a signal from a patient's brain, the results suggest that the person could answer ' yes' or 'no' to a series of questions.

With the development of advanced technology, the scientific community is preparing to wait for a new breakthrough that can help patients living the plant life to talk everyday through voice transmitters based on information. believe from their brains, can even move around by controlling wheelchairs.

According to speculation by British experts, new devices to help plant life can be born within 10 years. Dr. Owen's findings suggest that 1 in 5 plant life patients in the UK can communicate information and at the same time ask questions about when doctors should turn off life support systems for they. Up to 1,000 patients fall into a state of plant life sustained in the hope that one day they will "wake up".

From behind the cloth with a bug bitten by the bug is a milky light signaling the approaching day. My knees ached, my head was rigid and something like a diving suit tightened my entire body. The room slowly came out of the darkness. I took a close look at the photos of my relatives, pictured the drawings, the silver iron little cyclist, a gifted friend before the start of Paris-Roubaix racing bike and the picture rack. the T is sticking out above the bed where I was hardened for 6 months now like a borrowed snail in the shell . (Excerpt from 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' by Jean Dominique Bauby ).