Incredible story. Aphasia is a horror. Words, memories, relationships gone. Her recovery is a miracle!

I have to read this. Thanks for posting. My family has had huge problems with aphasia due to accidents, medication, and probably genetics. It will be interesting to learn more, especially from someone with a good sense of humor.

It's August 2007. Lauren Marks is a 27-year-old actor and a PhD student, spending the month directing a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She's in a bar, standing onstage, performing a karaoke duet of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'... and then a blood vessel in her brain bursts. When she wakes up in hospital, days later, she has no internal monologue, and a vocabulary of only forty words.

Find out more about this episode at http://theallusionist.org/eclipse, and more about Lauren at http://astitchoftime.com.

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Allusionist 58: Eclipse

Small adventures in the English language, by Helen Zaltzman from @AnswerMeThis for @Radiotopia from PRX.

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