What would you do

hi pat, i have this friend who visited me last week at the office. she is one so full of energy and always a happy person. the other night while on duty, an accident happened to her. she was side swiped by a taxi while driving her motorcycle and she had head trauma. she is now two days in the hospital and in coma. we do not know if she is going to make it and i feel so sad for her daughter. if she will get out of the coma, we do not know how she will fare. all good things were happening to her already.. she is about to meet her online american boyfriend in march and eventually they are planning on getting married. it makes me very sad this has happened to her. like she's been robbed of her happiness. and everyone will be a stranger to her if a miracle happens and she lives. ann

Wow that would be the day. I would really freak out if this would happen to me. But thanks friend, I have now a good advice from you to pose the picture of my wife and put a caption beneath it stating this is my wife! If in case my memory is lost please give her the authority to bang may head so that I would remember her.

I don't know what I would do to be honest I am glad that this brain disorder is very rare as I would not like to experience it

I think this would be devastating to myself and a spouse. You put so much of yourself into a relationship with them. Waking up and not knowing them would be something so life changing. If nothing could be done about it, that would make the situation even more unbearable to me.

I guess that's why most of the Alzheimer patients wanted to wander. They wanted to catch a glimpse of memory that is lost to them. If I woke up not knowing where I am about, I would do that just, wandering.

This is could be a nightmare for any wife if this thing could happen with their spouse. What is needed here is some assessment of how the couple had lived. A partner support is very much needed here. In this time, their love and support for each other is on the test. A wife may suffer but suffering could be sweet if it's for your love one. When one is in need, the other should be there standing by with all love and support.

Well that situation would be hard for my spouse and I. I guess there's nothing much I can do, it's my husband who has to take care of me in that situation. There have been a number of movies and stories about this. I read a story where a woman got amnesia and forgot everything---even how to drive, who Michael Jackson was, etc. And her husband found her after ten years and she had to live with him but they were total strangers to each other.

What would I do? There Is nothing really I could do if I am the person who lost the memory, as it would be my partner's turn to do something for me! LOL ! If I find my partner in this state., oh no... then I will try my level best o get her memory back in all possible ways. If needed to make her comfortable as a stranger to me I will befriend with her and take her into confidence at least to feed her and keep her other activities normally, so that she won't get weak physically.Having settled her physically I would approach a psychiatrist to discuss about this problem and I would follow the professional advise by him/her as there would nothing much left for me to do as I already have tried to get her memory back! Thanks friend for the simple but thought provoking discussion!

I am sure this would be sooo destroying to a relationship and hope it never happens to anyone it would be awful like having to relearn likes and dislikes and maybe you wouldnt now like your partner as a person.

That would be terrible and I don't know how I would react. Have you ever seen the movie "50 First Dates"? The guy came up with some great ideas but still it would be weird.

Sounds like my life right now. :D Yeah, it would be very difficult. They've explored this a bit on several soap operas, but naturally the person eventually gets their memory back.

I think it wouldn't be able to work. To have a stranger in your lovers body would be too much. Could you imagine the feeling of looking at your partner whom you love so much only to see nothing in their eyes because they don't know you? I couldn't do it.

That would be a real scary situation.I don't know how I would react since know one probably knows exactly how they would react until they were in a situation like that.