Many lives have a quiet drama played out in relative seclusion.
There on a Friday afternoon in February, his rental car was bumped from behind, triggering an airbag release that left him temporarily unconscious - and temporarily, if unknowingly, paralyzed. Taken by ambulance to Valley Medical Center in Renton, Washington, Lazar, still unconscious, was examined. He soon awakened. With no visible injuries and no suspicious symptoms, he might have been released had it not been for a chance comment and an astute ER physician named Peter Hutchinson. I told the doctor that I had had a dream that I couldn't move, but everything seemed like a dream at that point, so I didn't know what was real and what wasn't.