A literary look at locked-in syndrome by Alexandre Dumas

Did you know that the first description of locked-in syndrome was written by Alexander Dumas in 'The Count of Monte Cristo'? 

‘Sight and hearing were the only senses remaining.... It was only, however, by means of one of these senses that he could reveal the thoughts and feelings that still occupied his mind, and the look by which he gave expression to his inner life was like the distant gleam of a candle which a traveler sees by night across some desert place, and knows that a living being dwells beyond the silence and obscurity. In his eyes, shaded by thick black lashes, was concentrated, as it often happens with an organ which is used to the exclusion of the others, all the activity, address, force, and intelligence which were formerly diffused over his whole body; and so although the movement of the arm, the sound of the voice, and the agility of the body, were wanting, the speaking eye sufficed for all’.

https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/locked-in-syndrome/

Now you can read this 21st century experience by Peter Coghlan whose remarkable recovery from LIS is inspiring thousands of stroke and brain injury survivors worldwide.

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blink-Eye-Reborn-Peter-Coghlan/dp/1727145593/ref=asc_df_1727145593/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310817435886&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13854897127753846491&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=t&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046433&hvtargid=aud-858307789606:pla-581237497900&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

US: https://www.amazon.com/Blink-Eye-Reborn-Peter-Coghlan-ebook/dp/B07H74XL4F/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=In+the+blink+of+an+eye+reborn&qid=1582968638&sr=8-1