Yuck! A leg!

I rarely try to read something that is difficult to pay attention to.   But last evening, reading Oliver Sack’s “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Stories”, I read chapter 4, “The Man Who Fell Out of Bed”.  Sacks was a neurologist and the book in question is about unusual conditions that patients developed.  I may have fallen out of bed sometime but not lately and not often.  This chapter tells of cases of loss of the sense of proprioception, our sense of our own bodies and where our parts are, currently.  Chapter 4 is about a man who awoke only to discover a LEG in his bed!  Yuck and a half!  Some prankster must have put a severed leg in his bed.  Stressing and straining, he managed to push the repulsive thing out of his bed but as he did so, he fell out of bed, too.

Yes, it was his leg!  Nicely and properly attached to him, just as it should be.