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Author Potter, Vanessa, author.

Title Patient H69 : the story of my second sight / Vanessa Potter.

Publication Info. London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY POTTER    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B POTTER, VANESSA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  362.1097 POT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B POTTER, V.    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  BIOG POTTER, VANESSA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B POTTER VANESSA P    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-POTTER, V.    DUE 04-01-24
Description 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm.
Series Bloomsbury sigma ; book 23
Bloomsbury sigma series ; bk. 23.
Summary "In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD), a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home, she regained mobility but recovering her sight was more problematic. At first what she saw was monochromatic. As color reappeared, she encountered synesthesia (experiencing odd responses to stimuli, such as hearing inanimate objects talk to her). While a multidisciplinary team of neurobiologists, psychologists, immunologists, and developmental biologists treated her, she blogged and kept audio-diaries, using the pen-name Patient H69. In her own words, Potter reveals the terror and torment of her blindness. Supported by neuroscientists and Britain's National Health Service, Potter became a science sleuth, uncovering some of the innermost functions of the brain and our complex visual system, while learning meditation and self-hypnosis to help herself endure the ordeal and make a miraculous recovery."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.
Contents Introduction: The story of Patient H69 -- part 1: Diary of events: MMXII ; Snake bite ; The pillow ; D-Day ; Home ; Mowbray Road ; Painting project 1 -- part 2: Diary of the science: The science of my sight ; The art of seeing ; Synaesthesia ; Memory ; Making no sense ; Cambridge Science Festival 2015 ; 20/200 ; Time traveller -- Appendix I: The beach : a visualized sanctuary -- Appendix II: Visualization guide.
Subject Potter, Vanessa -- Health.
Optic neuritis -- Patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Optic neuritis -- Case studies.
Blind -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Blind women -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Blindness -- Case studies.
People with visual disabilities -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Life change events -- Case studies.
Neurosciences.
Blindness.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Added Title Patient H 69
ISBN 9781472936103 (hardback)
1472936108 (hardback)
9781472936110 (trade paperback)
1472936116 (trade paperback)
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