I was lying in bed, when I suddenly asked Liette, "why am I here?" Once she figured out that I wasn't joking or indulging in metaphysical introspection, she began to get worried. Being a doctor, she checked me out; I seemed fine physically, I just couldn't remember things. I didn't know what date or even year it was. When she told me it was January, I replied, "Then we must be past Christmas", but I couldn't remember what we did at all.
Liette took me to the hospital emergency. While we were waiting, I kept asking the same questions periodically, because I couldn't remember the answers she was giving me.
After some tests, I was admitted for observation at about 3 AM and put in a bed. During the night my memory started coming back. Thinking really hard, I began to recall what I'd had for lunch the day before; then the fact that I'd watched a video while I was eating; then which video it was. By the morning, I could remember everything except the period from 8 PM the previous to 3 AM that morning. That interval is forever lost to me; I am only able to relate what Liette told me afterwards.
After a forgettable hospital breakfast, the neurologist came to see me. After examining me, he said I was fine, and that I had had an episode of "Transient Global Amnesia." No one is very certain what causes it, but the good news is that it is very rare, and the chances of a reoccurrence are low.
He discharged me, and I was glad to get home. On the way, we stopped at Julie's school, so she could see I was OK. I left a message for Jeremy at his school so he wouldn't have to worry all day.
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O yes I remember it well
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