Are You Familiar With Transient Global Amnesia???

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Yesterday my brother was working from his house. At 1:30 pm his wife left to go run an errand & he was fine. She asked him to walk their dog while she was gone. She returned around 2:30 & he was still working. She asked him what time he walked the dog so she'd know when to walk it next. He looked at her & said I was supposed to walk the dog? She tried to remind him that when she left that she had asked him to walk the dog. He replied When did you leave? She thought he was kidding her as he forgot to walk the dog. As they continued talking she realized that he didn't remember taking their daughter to camp a few hours earlier & he didn't remember any of the recent events of their day. She called his doctor & she said to get him to the hospital immediately. A battery of tests were done & ruled out bleeding on the brain, stroke several other causes. Late last night, the neurologist treating him told his wife that it had been determined that my brother had Transient Global Amnesia possibly brought on by high blood pressure. Of course I jumped on the web to research it as that is something I have never heard of. One link took me to the Mayo Clinic website where I found some good information. It sounds like a very scary illness that seems to come & go for no reason. The site says once it's gone it usually doesn't come back. That lead me to wonder...If they don't know what brings it on & they don't treat the cause, what is there to stop it from happening again??? So, I've decided to turn to my knowledge base & ask the good people of myLot...Have you ever heard of Transient Global Amnesia??? Do you have personal knowledge of what happens during & after??? Is your knowledge from working in the medical profession or from personal experience??? I'm just trying to prepare myself for what is to come in the next several days so I can stay one step ahead of Dad!!!