(Outside Reading #5) Motionless Boy Article

In the article The Unspeakable Odyssey of the Motionless Boy by Joshua Foer, Erik Ransey is in a terrible car crash. His body is completely paralyzed and he cannot speak. The only thing he can do is move his eyes up and down. They are expiramenting with him and hook up wires to his brain to see if they can read his thoughts and put it into words. If I was in his postion I wouldn't know what to do. Life would always be so frusterating. If I was in pain, I couldn't yell for help. If I needed something, I couldn't ask for it. I couldn't do anything at all by myself, people would have to be helping me constantly throughout my day. When his family and friends rearrange the house so he will be able to live there with his wheel chair I think that is so great. The doctors offered to send him to a nursing home but they wanted him to stay close. If my family did that for me it would definitely make me happier and it would show they haven't given up on me. I know for a family it would be very difficult to go through that so I think that shows that they still really care for him and would do anything for him. In the end I'm so glad that he finally is able to get out sentences and say his thoughts. It just goes to show that miracles really can happen.