Personal Narrative: Two Brain

Two brains?

Some things that we have been learning have been interesting for me. The one that really was kind of a shock to me was on chapter 2, page 68. The idea of having two brains. I was amazed by the stories of those people. Especially about the one that says that if the man holds a book in his right hand, he would read it, but if he hold it with the left hand he didn’t feel like reading anymore. I was even more amazed when I watch the video, I couldn’t believe my eyes! It was my first time knowing about something like this!

At first, when I read in the notes about the two brains I really thought it was a person with literally two brains. I even asked to myself; “how it will be that possible? How a person can have two brains? His/her

I used to suffer from epilepsy. They discovered when I was 5 months old. Since then they were giving me medication to control it. There was a point that it didn’t matter the medicine or the dose I was taking, the seizures couldn’t be controlled. Worst part? I was suffering from two types of seizures absence seizure and tonic-clonic seizure. Tonic-clonic seizure it is the “usual seizure”. This is the kind where the person lose consciences, have involuntary movements and can badly bit their tongue. One time I couldn’t talk, or eat for almost a week because I bit my tongue so bad. I couldn’t even drink water because if I did I felt like my tongue was burning. The absence seizure is the one where the person blank out for some seconds. That used to happen to me like every 5 minutes. When I “came back” I couldn’t remembered what I was doing or saying. I could be by myself at all. One day I suffered from one absence seizure while crossing a street and I almost got hit by a car. When I reacted there was a person yelling at me because I was standing in the middle of the street, my cousin saw what was happening and when to get me and explain to the person what happened. Things were getting so bad that doctors told me I might needed to get a surgery. I panicked and say no. I was not going to let them do that to me. They decided to try one more medicine called Depakote and it worked! It controlled both seizures, so I didn’t need to go under surgery no more. When I read this, it brought me a lot of memories and then I thought “If the surgery was the Corpus Callosotomy I would have two brains. Cool but not cool.” Of course I do not know with surgery they were thinking about because I didn’t even let them to explain it to me. I didn’t even want to hear the word surgery! I couldn’t believe it, so I decided to do an experiment on my