Riding Through the Cuckoo's Nest

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:00:00

RIDING THROUGH THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Megan Timothy

Megan Timothy has led a full life. She was born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and moved to the United States at age twenty-one.

Since then, she's been a Playboy bunny, a B-movie actress, a gardener and a screenwriter. But three years ago, at the age of sixty, her life fell apart. Her brain, as she puts it, exploded.

She had suffered something similar to a stroke. Her mind was clear, but nobody could understand what she was trying to say.

This adventure of mine was fun in a way. This journey was such a fantastic internal journey for me. A lot of my journeys are external, because I like the physical as well as the mental. But this was my first totally internal journey because I could not go. I was stuck. I have learned so much.
- Megan Timothy

Megan in action

Megan's physical journey did not end at the hospital. It has taken her across the United States on, of all things, a bicycle.

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MEDICAL MISTAKE

Renee Zimmerman and Nixa

Studies say that half of Americans worry about accidents occurring while they are in the hospital. The latest research suggests that there's foundation for those fears - some reports estimate that each year 200,000 people die from preventable medical errors.

Dick talks with Renee Zimmerman about her experience in the hospital for routine surgery. She expected to wake up from anesthesia in twenty-four hours. Instead, she woke up three months later.

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Riding Through the Cuckoo's Nest

RIDING THROUGH THE CUCKOO'S NEST

MEDICAL MISTAKE