You could say that something similar happened to Renoir, who lost the use of his hands but continued to sculpt by guiding an assistant's hands with sticks tied to his wrists, and to paint with brushes fixed to him in the same fashion.
A friend of mine was gifted/burdened with excellent non-physical vision, which he didn't have to do any sort of work to activate (just avoid alcohol). However, he misused it (in my opinion— he was consistently belligerent towards the entities that he encountered, often with some justification but sometimes not) and developed a seizure disorder which over time impaired this sense. So far as I know, he's simply stopped working— but then, his magical work developed in response to his ability to see non-corporeal persons in the first place. |
