Kathryn had been trained as a registered nurse and knew from working in the ICU that even patients in comas could hear and remember what was said to them. She told her mother she was the best mom any girl could have and she was proud to be her daughter. At around eleven fifteen a.m. she kissed her mother good-bye, said a prayer over her, and, with the nurse executive, departed LifeCare. [Êàðòèíêà: i_007.jpg] At around two p.m., Cook climbed slowly upstairs to check what was happening on the eighth floor in the ICU, where he had worked for many years. Most of the ICU patients had been airlifted on Tuesday, but the four with DNR orders who had been kept behind had not. American Psychiatric Association, 1 , 2 While the visual word form area is crucial in the recognition of words and letters, many other areas of the brain are involved in“higher” levels of reading. This enabled Howard, for instance, to infer words from their context. Even now, nine years after his stroke, he is unable to recognize many simple words at a glance—but his writer’s imagination does not just depend on reading.