Around the time I was born, something happened to my brain. I was very sick and rode in a helicopter to a hospital that could take a very sick baby. I spent a week in the NICU or Neonatal intensive Care Unit . I couldn't breathe on my own and had to have a tube in my throat so a machine could breathe for me. My brain was injured because of something called a stroke. A stroke can happen when there is bleeding in the brain which is called a cerebral hemorrhage or when blood flow to the brain is stopped. We don't know what kind I had, just that the MRI showed damage on the left side of my brain. Many people don't know this, but the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body and the right half of your brain controlls the left side of your body.
The brain has three parts; the cerebrum , the cerebellum and the brain stem . This story is only about the biggest part, the cerebrum. The two halves of your cerebrum are called hemispheres. My stroke happened in the left hemisphere and affects the right side of my body. The brain is divided into different lobes. Each lobe controls a certain part of the body.
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