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Sto caricando le informazioni... I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesiadi Su Meck
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I am not going to lie- I never finished the book. It felt redundant and didn't keep my interest. Although I am amazed by this woman's strength to relearn everything, including her own family, I found the writing style difficult to read. I felt as if I was reading a stream of consciousness sometimes and would get lost with thoughts that jumped around. It jsut didn;t keep my interest, and with so many books in my TBR pile, I had to move on. I gave up - made it 64% of the way through, but there are too many other books out there for me to suffer the rest of this one. apologies to everyone who loved this book, but I hated it. I just couldn't feel any empathy or sympathy or...anything toward her, and don't get me started on her husband. just not the book for me, clearly. ARC Provided by NetGalley In 1988 Su Meck was a normal twenty-two year old young woman. She was happily married with two young children. And then everything changed when a ceiling fan fell and struck her on the head, that erased all of her memories up to that point. Just three short weeks later, her body was healed and she was released from the hospital. But her memories never returned. For nearly twenty years Su became an adept mimic, creating routines and rituals to hide her amnesia. And then...a series of devastating events shattered her “normal” world and she had to grow up all over again. Whenever we see people in movies and novels with amnesia, it always seems like someone quickly catches on to the fact that “hey this person can’t remember their name.” But what if not everyone noticed? And that you can’t recognize your family or even yourself, or what you like and dislike? What if doctors just say that it’s a psychiatric condition? That’s the situation that Su was in after her accident. Su details what it was like, trying to relearn how to live, often times without understanding why she was supposed to do or say things. While the book sometimes gets bogged down in unneeded details of marriage and raising children, it is still an interesting read. With the help of Daniel de Vise, Su is able to tell her own story in this one of a kind memoir. Su hopes that by telling her story for the first time, she’ll give others in similar situations hope and courage to rebuild their own lives. I give the book 3 out of 5 stars. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Just twenty-two years old, Su Meck was already married and the mother of two children in 1988 when a ceiling fan in the kitchen of her home fell from its mounting and struck her in the head. She survived the life-threatening swelling in her brain that resulted from the accident, but when she regained consciousness in the hospital the next day, she didn't know her own name. She didn't recognize a single family member or friend, she couldn't read or write or brush her teeth or use a fork--and she didn't have even a scrap of memory from her life up to that point. The fiercely independent and outspoken young woman she had been vanished completely. Most patients who suffer amnesia as a result of a head injury eventually regain their memories, but Su never did. After three weeks in the hospital she was sent back out into a world about which she knew nothing: What did it mean to be someone's wife? To be a mother? How did everyone around her seem to know what they were supposed to do or say at any given moment? Adrift in the chaos of mental data that most of us think of as everyday life, Su became an adept mimic, fashioning a self and a life out of careful observation and ironclad routine. She had no dreams for herself, no plans outside the ever-burgeoning daily to-do list of a stay-at-home mom. The Meck family left Texas to start over in Maryland, and told almost no one in their new life about Su's accident. Nearly twenty years would pass before Su understood the full extent of the losses she and her family suffered as a result of her injury. As a series of personally devastating events shattered the "normal" life she had worked so hard to build, Su realized that she would have to grow up all over again, and finally take control of the strange second life she had awoken into"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Good LORD this book makes me so furious. How this poor woman completely lost all memory and no one really understood enough to step in and say, "Hey. Maybe you shouldn't be home alone with 2 toddlers and no memory whatsoever." And I know she wants us to not hate her husband, but I'm pretty sure leaving him might be the best thing she can so for herself.
And I know the author will read this and I've been particularly negative, which I hate about goodreads. Apologies to Su Meck. You really are an inspiration, even to those of us without a TBI. ( )