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Disability and Memory Loss Sucks
7 years ago
Okay, as active as I wanted to be on here, I am starting pretty much from scratch and here's why.
In September, I fell ill and had to go from work to the hospital. Several months and hospital trips later, they found I had a herniated disc from degenerative disc disease and a disease called Syringomyelia (won't waste time explaining here, please use Google). I also developed epilepsy.
This past week, I had two major seizures over a few days span. The first wiped the entirety of my memory except for the last person I was thinking about before it happened and sent me to the hospital due to respiratory failure that my husband had to resuscitate me from. I regained memories VERY slowly up until the third day where another seizure stole the entire long term memory capacity and again caused respiratory failure (again, husband saved my life). So, that's where we are at now. I have memories only of the two closest people in my life and can recognize some faces and acknowledge having known them at one point, but have no memory of who they actually are or what I did with them in the past.
The neurologist said I may only regain up to 5 years of my past and that the rest is most likely gone for good.
So yeah, fresh restart, but not really? So don't be offended if I don't recognize you... And I'm going to try and use this account more because I want to get to know more people and make new friends in the fandom.
In September, I fell ill and had to go from work to the hospital. Several months and hospital trips later, they found I had a herniated disc from degenerative disc disease and a disease called Syringomyelia (won't waste time explaining here, please use Google). I also developed epilepsy.
This past week, I had two major seizures over a few days span. The first wiped the entirety of my memory except for the last person I was thinking about before it happened and sent me to the hospital due to respiratory failure that my husband had to resuscitate me from. I regained memories VERY slowly up until the third day where another seizure stole the entire long term memory capacity and again caused respiratory failure (again, husband saved my life). So, that's where we are at now. I have memories only of the two closest people in my life and can recognize some faces and acknowledge having known them at one point, but have no memory of who they actually are or what I did with them in the past.
The neurologist said I may only regain up to 5 years of my past and that the rest is most likely gone for good.
So yeah, fresh restart, but not really? So don't be offended if I don't recognize you... And I'm going to try and use this account more because I want to get to know more people and make new friends in the fandom.
