A leg to stand on

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Oliver Sacks - A leg to stand on

Oliver Sacks is a British-born neurologist who has written about his various cases; but in this particular book he tells about what happened after his accident in Norway in 1974 - and how his leg vanished…

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[fjm]

Fascinating in a personal way:

I have a muscle in my right leg I cannot feel. It's clearly working, or I wouldnt be able to walk, but there is no conscious response. It's the calf muscle. I can clench the one in my left leg, but right? Nothing. Just as if it weren't there.

I've never been able to persuade doctors of this. It's as if they don't want to admit that this is possible.

(A few years ago someone mentioned a reaction to tetanus that reminded me I did actually have tetanus in that muscle when I was a kid, and this might be the cause.)