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Total amnesia about and for a few weeks after car accident. Anyone else have this?
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 674545" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Serenity, my son does not remember the period before his brain injury. He does not remember what happened. Only waking up with a terrible headache. At least that is what he tells us. The doctors insist that the only thing that could have caused the injury was a very strong blow to the back of the head. I wonder if I will ever know what happened, or if he knows.</p><p></p><p>I cannot remember an instance like that except for I had several surgeries and the anesthesiologist gave me something that works on memory. So I was conscious, but without memory of the incident throughout. </p><p></p><p>I could not figure out why they brought a translator to talk to me when I was coming to. It seems that I spoke Spanish throughout the procedure and they believed I could not be communicated with in English. I had no memory what so ever. I have always been a little sensitive afterwards about conscious sedation. </p><p></p><p>This was maybe 14 years ago. I knew Spanish then but not so good. </p><p>I do not know why amnesia occurs. Whether it is the trauma or shock. Or whether swelling to the brain affects the memory center, temporarily. I will try to look tomorrow if I can remember. No pun intended.</p><p>This is horrible, Cedar. How hard for all of you, especially Dear Daughter.</p><p>So there is none of the signal or warning emotion in her to respond differently. Like my thread, who do you trust? </p><p></p><p>It is like those stories where somebody learns a dark secret about a loved one that changes everything. Or the movies like Suspicion. But even there there is the dawning awareness of danger. For dear daughter there was nothing.</p><p></p><p>I worked with a woman whose daughter's fiance killed her while they were both high on drugs. She was like 24 years old. They were both in college. Apparently the killer was destroyed by it, and at the time the mother had compassion for him and visited him in jail. That was when I quit that prison to go to my mother. I always wondered if she sustained that compassion for her daughter's killer, or if she was only able to sustain it while she was still in shock herself...and had not truly come to grips with had happened. </p><p></p><p>Because murder is murder. That is another question I ask myself. I routinely had compassion for many murderers and other criminals, even child molesters. Not all. Some. But unless I had to evaluate them for a report I made it a point to not read about their crimes. Compassion is a very difficult emotion to come to, when there is an irrevocable loss. Some people do. I do not know how.</p><p></p><p>COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 674545, member: 18958"] Serenity, my son does not remember the period before his brain injury. He does not remember what happened. Only waking up with a terrible headache. At least that is what he tells us. The doctors insist that the only thing that could have caused the injury was a very strong blow to the back of the head. I wonder if I will ever know what happened, or if he knows. I cannot remember an instance like that except for I had several surgeries and the anesthesiologist gave me something that works on memory. So I was conscious, but without memory of the incident throughout. I could not figure out why they brought a translator to talk to me when I was coming to. It seems that I spoke Spanish throughout the procedure and they believed I could not be communicated with in English. I had no memory what so ever. I have always been a little sensitive afterwards about conscious sedation. This was maybe 14 years ago. I knew Spanish then but not so good. I do not know why amnesia occurs. Whether it is the trauma or shock. Or whether swelling to the brain affects the memory center, temporarily. I will try to look tomorrow if I can remember. No pun intended. This is horrible, Cedar. How hard for all of you, especially Dear Daughter. So there is none of the signal or warning emotion in her to respond differently. Like my thread, who do you trust? It is like those stories where somebody learns a dark secret about a loved one that changes everything. Or the movies like Suspicion. But even there there is the dawning awareness of danger. For dear daughter there was nothing. I worked with a woman whose daughter's fiance killed her while they were both high on drugs. She was like 24 years old. They were both in college. Apparently the killer was destroyed by it, and at the time the mother had compassion for him and visited him in jail. That was when I quit that prison to go to my mother. I always wondered if she sustained that compassion for her daughter's killer, or if she was only able to sustain it while she was still in shock herself...and had not truly come to grips with had happened. Because murder is murder. That is another question I ask myself. I routinely had compassion for many murderers and other criminals, even child molesters. Not all. Some. But unless I had to evaluate them for a report I made it a point to not read about their crimes. Compassion is a very difficult emotion to come to, when there is an irrevocable loss. Some people do. I do not know how. COPA [/QUOTE]
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