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At 43, a stroke left French Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby conscious and lucid but almost completely paralysed, able to move only his left eyelid, so he dictated an entire memoir by blinking to choose each letter as the alphabet was read aloud to him, a
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Jean-Dominique Bauby was 43, editor-in-chief of French Elle, and driving his son to the theatre when he suffered a brainstem stroke on 8 December 1995. He came out of a coma about twenty days later w ...[Continue Reading]
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