Sacks on recovery

Sacks, O. (1984). A leg to stand on. New York: Summit Books. Excerpts
p. 176-7. Sacks admits the “hateful spite of the sick” when faced with the healthy
p. 182-3 Sacks describes the restoration of function as requiring action, made possible by therapist or teacher, and being like a second childhood.
p. 186-7 Sacks describes the “healthy joy” and gratitude of finding the world again:

I felt that a profound crisis had occurred in my life, and that from now on I would be profoundly and per­manently transformed. I would take less for granted-in­deed nothing for granted. I would see life, all being, as the most precious of gifts, infinitely vulnerable and precarious, to be infinitely prized and cherished.