La disincarnata

Freely adapted from
o.Sacks' "The man who mistook his wife for a hat"

From the text:

She could scarcely even sit up—her body ‘gave way’. Her face was oddly expressionless and slack,
her jaw fell open, even her vocal posture was gone.
‘Something awful’s happened,’ she mouthed, in a ghostly flat voice. ‘I can’t feel my body. I feel
weird—disembodied.’
This was an amazing thing to hear, confounded, confounding. ‘Disembodied’