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I Forgot to Remember : : a Memoir of Amnesia

Meck, Su. Book - 2014 616.852 Me 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."
"Just twenty-two years old, Su Meck was already married and the mother of two children in 1988 when a ceiling fan in the kitchen of her home fell from its mounting and struck her in the head. She survived the life-threatening swelling in her brain that resulted from the accident, but when she regained consciousness in the hospital the next day, she didn't know her own name. She didn't recognize a single family member or friend, she couldn't read or write or brush her teeth or use a fork--and she didn't have even a scrap of memory from her life up to that point. The fiercely independent and outspoken young woman she had been vanished completely. Most patients who suffer amnesia as a result of a head injury eventually regain their memories, but Su never did. After three weeks in the hospital she was sent back out into a world about which she knew nothing: What did it mean to be someone's wife? To be a mother? How did everyone around her seem to know what they were supposed to do or say at any given moment? Adrift in the chaos of mental data that most of us think of as everyday life, Su became an adept mimic, fashioning a self and a life out of careful observation and ironclad routine. She had no dreams for herself, no plans outside the ever-burgeoning daily to-do list of a stay-at-home mom. The Meck family left Texas to start over in Maryland, and told almost no one in their new life about Su's accident. Nearly twenty years would pass before Su understood the full extent of the losses she and her family suffered as a result of her injury. As a series of personally devastating events shattered the "normal" life she had worked so hard to build, Su realized that she would have to grow up all over again, and finally take control of the strange second life she had awoken into"-- Provided by publisher.

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Interesting Memoir submitted by monkk on June 25, 2014, 8:15pm How would it feel to wake up one day and not know who you were? Who is this person who says we're married? How do I drive a car? Use a phone? Sounds terrifying, and Su Meck does a great job relating her experiences dealing with it. Good, easy read.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781451685817
1451685815

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
De Visé, Daniel,

SUBJECTS
Meck, Su -- Mental health.
Amnesia -- Patients -- Biography.
Brain -- Complications.