Re: OT: A Better Keyboard

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:46:23 GMT

LEE Sau Dan wrote:

> More interesting, people who have a cut limb surgically reconnected
> can manage to use that limb (and fingers/toes) again. During the
> surgery, the surgeons have to reconnect each nerve vessel carefully.
> But they don't know which is which. So, they just blindly connect
> them, without caring about which matches which. Like cutting a
> hundred sticks into 2 halves in the middle, mixing them and then
> reconstructing each stick with glue. You may not be pairing the two
> halfs of an original stick correctly. So, the end effect after the
> surgery is that when the patient wants to move the little finger on
> the reconnected limb, the elbow may move as a result. This is because
> the nerve that used to control the little finger is not connected to
> the muscles controlling the elbow joint. This shuffling can be
> frustrating (or interesting) at first. But the patient can usually
> relearn the new nerve mapping pretty quickly.

Jessica Lynch (the American girl who was held patient in an Iraqi
hospital, and whose story was lied about by the Pentagon) in an
interview with Al Franken yesterday said that she's largely recovered
from her wounds and surgeries, but her foot is not yet back
communicating with her brain (and it wasn't fully amputated); if the
nerves haven't regrown in two years, they tell her, they probably won't.

She's now 21. And [ObLing] from West Virginia, she has that double modal
thing even though she doesn't have a strong regional accent. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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