The Black Hole
My memory has improved substantially over time, which is really scary as it's what I consider terrible today. I don't have a diagnosis for it. If it's from the SCAs, if it's from the hypothermia treatment, if it's an actual brain injury. After my SCAs I didn't know what certain things were. A pizza that had been in my life for twenty years, I had no idea what it was. I didn't know how to eat it, if I liked it, or even if I wanted to eat it. Kids laughed at me. I couldn't remember the simple letters ICD. I called it "that thing". Spelling, grammar, punctuation, math all took a severe hit. I couldn't read a book. I lost everything from fall of 2009 till my SCAs in 2012. I can get senses of dejuvue at times but not the memorie. Saying or typing a certain word escapes me. I'll change an entire paragraph to avoid word usage. I can do things, or participate in a conversation, and a day, a week, a month later I have no idea it h...