Outside Reading Post #5

For this outside reading post, Mr. Cheng asked us to read an article titled The Unspeakable Odyssey of the Motionless Boy, written by Joshua Foer. This article, which is true, was about a sixteen year old boy, named Erik, who got it a car crash. The crash was so severe that it left him with an extremely rare condition called "locked-in syndrome", it is called locked-in syndrome because you are essentially locked in your own body. Erik is completely paralyzed with the exception of moving his eyes up and down, although his brain functions just like yours or mine, he can think things out but cannot verbally say anything. Because Erik cannot talk, his family uses a letter chart where he says "yes" or "no" when they point to a letter, this as you can imagine takes a log time, and Erik doesn't like it very much, so they rarley use it. Erik got implants but into his brain and goes to therapy so he can try to make sound through a computer. Erik succesfully said his first sentance through the computer. It was "How are you? I love you." Erik is a truly amazing person, one can only imagine how it would be living like that.