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I Forgot to Remember
Su Meck
Simon & Schuster
February 2015
On Sale: February 4, 2015
Featuring: Su Mack
ISBN: 1451685815 EAN: 9781451685817 Kindle: B00DPM7YWW Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
For fans of Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire, the courageous
memoir of a woman robbed of all her memories by a traumatic
brain injury—and her more than twenty-five-year struggle to
reclaim her life. At twenty-two years old, Su Meck was married with two
children in 1988 when a ceiling fan in her home fell and
struck her in the head. She survived the injury, but when
she regained consciousness in the hospital, 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 possessed not 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 the result of a head
injury eventually regain their memories, but Su never did.
After just three weeks in the hospital, she was sent back
into a world about which she knew nothing: How do you run a
household when you can’t find the grocery store? How do you
raise children when you have no memory of being parented
yourself? How do you maintain a relationship with your
husband when you’ve forgotten everything you once knew about
love and sex? Nearly twenty years would pass before a series
of personally devastating events shattered the “normal” life
she had worked so hard to build siince the accident, and Su
realized that she would have to grow up all over again and
finally take control of the strange second life she had
awoken to. Su’s indelible voice shines through on every page as she
describes the true cost to herself and her family of
traumatic brain injury (TBI), and the incredible stamina,
resolve, and courage it took for her to build a new life in
the face of so much loss. Piercing, passionate,
heartbreaking, but ultimately uplifting, Think Again is the
true story of a woman determined to live life on her own terms.
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