Acute toxische leuko-encefalopathie; een ziekte die even ondoorgrondelijk is als de naam lang. Bij patiënten verdwijnt langzaam de witte stof in de hersenen. De meeste mensen leven na de diagnose nog hooguit een maand, maar Jake Haendel niet. Hij overleefde het. In Blink hoor je zijn verhaal over deze zeldzame ziekte, die vaak komt door blootstelling aan zware metalen. In Haendels geval: heroïne.
Toch blijkt de ziekte niet eens het meest bizarre te zijn aan het verhaal, waarin een manipulatieve partner, drugsdealers, een familie vol conflicten en een coma waarin Haendel volledig bewust was van zijn omgeving aan bod komen. Samen met podcastmaker Corinne Vien vertelt Jake Haendel zijn relaas. En waar zijn geheugen gaten laat vallen, springen vrienden en familie bij, soms om te helpen, maar meestal om hun eigen versie van het verhaal te vertellen.
Jacob Haendel has been handed a death sentence. He has a terminal progressive disease that’s eating away at the white matter of his brain. In six months, he’ll be dead. As the months progress, Jake slips into a coma, laying there in total darkness. But something odd has happened… Jake is fully conscious. Nobody knows that he can hear them. They’re certain he’s no longer in there. With the promise that Jake will never recover, friends and family visit less and less. Until there is just one person left. A person who begins to whisper strange admissions in his ear. It is here, helpless in his hospital bed, that Jake realizes what may have gotten him here in the first place. The scariest thing in the room is no longer the potential of dying, but rather, the person sitting right next to him. This is Blink, the untold true story and survival of Jacob Haendel.
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