A Day in the lLife of Jean-Dominique Bauby

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Jean-Dominique Bauby was born in Paris France on April 23rd 1952, he had two children a son named Theophile and a daughter named Celeste. After working as a journalist for The Quotidien de Paris and Paris Match magazine for four years, in 1991 Bauby had finally became a well known author, journalists and editor in chief of a French fashion magazine called Elle. As Bauby quickly made his way to the top of the corporate ladder his dreams were suddenly shattered.
On December 8th, 1995 at the age of forty three Bauby had a stroke and fell into an induced coma for twenty days. After being in a coma for twenty days, Bauby awoke only to discover that his entire body was paralyzed leaving him unable to speak, eat, breath or move on his own. Bauby later found out that he had suffered from a brain stem stroke and as a result had fallen victim to a rare disorder called locked-in syndrome. Soon after Bauby discovered that he was at risk of developing an infection, in order to prevent the infection from spreading doctors had sewn Bauby’s right eyelid shut leaving him with only his left eye.
Unable to move or communicate and tired of feeling helpless and having to rely on others, Bauby routinely met up with a speech therapist and developed his own method of communication. By using the only functioning body part he had left, his left eye this became Bauby’s only means of communicating with those around him. With this method of communication Bauby would work with a speech therapist in Partner-assisted scanning or listener-assisted scanning. During these meetings Bauby’s speech therapist would slowly recite each letter of the alphabet to him aloud or point to each letter on a screen. When the letter he wanted to use was said aloud or pointed to B...

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