Story - Hartwig Distler

In the next part of the experiment the name of a color was search. You had six differently colored names. You had to search for a certain color
name. You had to search for the name of a color e.g. “orange”. The name of the color could be written in any color. Important was that the
name of the color was correct, in the case of this example
“orange”.
This game is very entertaining. Some variants are relatively simply and fast to settle, but some others - at least for me - where really difficult.
17.03.2008
How are my feelings?
How do I feel? Is it difficult?
Of course it would have been much easier if nothing would have happened to me, if everything would have remained as it was before my
illness. You only learn to estimate those things, if something terrible happens to you, as with my illness. Only that time you will notice how
complex the brain is. I never spend a second on this. That was just being “natural”.
“A major advantage of my prehistory were my phobias”. During that time I was forced to deal with myself. I had to bring my phobias under
control. It took almost 20 years. Only the last three or four years everything was ok. Only then everything was ok In the post-history I have to
say that this was good for me. By my occupation with the phobias I was in a sense prepared in a certain sense for my aneurysm.
Immediately after I woke up again - after the coma - have immediately accepted which has happened to me. That was finally an important step
in starting immediately again with the reconstruction. I am since then busy with reconstructing my senses and my ability to think. In a sense it
became a sport for me. With some things I notice still that I am completely overstrained with that. In the meantime I have learned to be patient
and that I have to wait for developments. In some places I had to learn that first you have to learn that first there is "a" and "b" alone, before I
can make “ab”! As said, patience plays a large role. I had to learn to make one step after the other. But I am also a little proud on me on what I
achieved in the last 2 ½ years.
I think it was very important that I accepted from the beginning what happened to me. It was very important that I was not busy to complain all
the time, but instead was busy to start restructuring.