{"id":1466,"date":"2005-02-23T20:39:10","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T00:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2005-02-23T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T00:39:10","slug":"symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oliver Sacks is finished, and will be in next Saturday’s Guardian.<\/em> I spent a lot of yesterday and this morning waiting for people to ring me back with comments, which is nervous-making. It doesn’t, however, normally bring me out in migraines. However, since I was writing about the author of Migraine,<\/em> I came out in a sort I have never had before, right-sided rather than left-sided; and when I was interviewing a Cambridge historian for the next project this morning, I noticed all sorts of ununsual things happening in my visual field. It is hard to talk to someone whose face is transforming into desaturated lumps of disarticulated flesh.<\/p>\n\n

Later, when I was driving my producer to the station in Cambridge. I couldn’t for a moment remember where it was, and worried that I couldn’t get through the one-way system to the cricket pitch, where, for some reason, I had placed it in my mind. Instead of being a mere brain fart, this became a fascinating cognitive dysfunction.<\/p>\n\n

I don’t think my nerves could have taken much more of the story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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