Journal Entery

Date: October 28, 2007

Entery Number: 29

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 171

I find it rather intriguing how the mind controls so much. For some reason Esther couldn't see temporarily and she told this to the nurse that was there. The nurse for some reason said, "There are lots of blind people in the world. You'll marry a nice blind man someday." Then the doctor came back in and took off a boss that was placed over Esther's left eye and light appeared. He asked if she could see him and she said yes and then he asked if she could see anything else. "Then I remembered. "I can't see anything." The gap narrowed and went dark. "I'm blind." The doctor tells her this is nonsense and asks who told her that. OF course it had to be a nurse. But it is rather fascinating the way our minds control so much. If you are in a position were you think you will get sick and you tell yourself this over and over again and again, then you will get sick. There was this great episode of HOUSE about this guy who gets sick and Cutty thinks it is this really bad disease but of course House always contradicts her. Because she thinks it is this disease and other people around start to worry about it, seeing the symptoms he has, they start to form the same symptoms. (THis all took place on an airplane.) House finds out that the guy had gone scouba diving the day before, had come up to quickly, and then got onto the plane. The differences in elevation were making him sick. After that everyone got better. It just ammuses me what the mind can do.