Skinned Blog 3

 "Our instruments are indicating that you've gained control of some key facial muscles,Lia . You should be able to blink. Can you blink now, if you understand me? Just once, nice and slow?Chapter 2 Page 16

Lia had been in an accident and was yet to recover, but her recovery was going fast, she had been able to use her facial expression to express how she felt. Lia was connected into all these machines that gave the doctors signs of when something was different and to the doctors these news of being able to move some muscles was great because this show that the patient was still within this world. It showed that the brain was starting to function again and that it was finding its way of how to establish sensory input. It is terrible to know that you've been in an accident but that is all they tell you at times because they don't want to worried the patient because then the recovery is not going to happen fast. Not being able to speak or barely move and yet the doctors tell you your fine. In this process of being in the hospital you are basically controlled by the machines they connect you to, the oxygen machines, the all body control system and the one that feeds you while your laying there. Another terrible thing is that the doctor tells you your fine, but you are not able to move one leg or arm and then your brain immediately goes to the idea of being paralyzed.
The doctors are always watching these machines because they tell you everything, the heart beat, blood levels  and everything else that is working properly.After being in a very dangerous accident, just the sign of a finger moving is big news because the doctors know that the person is not paralyzed or in a coma.
Even though our world is not in the best standards I could truly say that technology is been the one that has been moving everything around this world. Machines like these that are put into hospitals to guide doctors in their work makes things easier. I am amazed at how fast hospitals get their patients checked up and out the door.
Through out the chapter Lia is not able to speak except with her eyes by blinking and then she is connected into a neural output line from the language center of her brain and whatever she was thinking the computer will speak it for you.Computers are the ones that manage everything, they are like people. In this world the humans now living in this planet are lucky to come across computers because with this technology we are able to communicate, transfer information and work. Computers are like cars and robots working fast but intelligently making good actions and helping people get around. When I was reading I could vision this passage and I was able to picture Lia moving her facial muscles and then I am able to know that she was still alive.