{"id":3240,"date":"2022-08-10T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/istori.website\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2022-08-10T17:56:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:56:26","slug":"grandmother-loses-40-years-of-memories-after-mysterious-headache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/istori.website\/?p=3240","title":{"rendered":"Grandmother Loses 40 Years Of Memories After Mysterious Headache"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kim Denicola is 56, but when she woke up in a hospital bed last October she was convinced she was only 17 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grandmother from Baton Rouge, Louisiana is still coping with memory loss that erased almost four decades of memories, after a headache caused her to black out in her church’s parking lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a new interview with Inside Edition, Denicola described waking up in the hospital to questions from her nurses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“She said, ‘Do you know what year it is?’ And I said, ‘Yes, it’s 1980.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In her mind, Denicola had just graduated taken her senior year exams and the president was still Ronald Reagan. She could not recall anything after that time in her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I apparently was married,” she said. “I had a wedding.” But Denicola had no memory of that day, her husband David, their children, or her grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When I looked at him, he had tears in his eyes,” she said. “I thought, ‘Oh man. Something’s not right here.’ He said, ‘I’m your husband.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the woman staring back at her in the mirror was a surprise to Denicola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“When I woke up, [I thought] I was about to turn 18,” she said. “I looked in the mirror [and thought] ‘This is not 18.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, stories from family and photographs of her forgotten years have failed to jog Denicola’s memory. She had to relearn how to use a computer, and also rediscovered modern technology like cell phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The last TV I remember was a box on the floor, and you had to go up and change the channel,” she told Metro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were more upsetting lessons to learn as well: Denicola had to find out her parents had died all over again. She told Fox 8 that she was in tears “for days” after doctors revealed how much time she had lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doctors say she suffers from transient global amnesia, a type of sudden memory loss. While the condition normally gets better with time, Denicola is still waiting for her memories to return months after her blackout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a serious possibility that some of her “lost time” will never return, but the thought doesn’t worry Denicola. “If the memories don’t come back, I can make new ones,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Maybe one day I’ll get those memories back,” she told Metro, “maybe I won’t. But I’m taking each day as it comes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How would you react if you woke up thinking it was 1980?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I write about all sorts of things for Shared, especially weird facts, celebrity news, and viral stories.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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