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![]() ![]() ![]() After awakening from a coma in January of 1996, Bauby found that the only way he could communicate with the outside world was by blinking his left eyelid-the single part of his body over which he had any remaining control. On December 8th of 1995, the editor-in-chief of the French fashion magazine Elle, Jean-Dominique Bauby, suffered a massive stroke which severed his brain stem from his spinal cord and rendered the worldly, charismatic, fashionable man nearly completely paralyzed. ![]()
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