The woman woke up like every morning. And, like every morning, you went to the bathroom. She looked in the mirror but she was still half asleep and she just rubbed her eyes and she kept walking. Seconds later came the shot.
She returned to the reflection wrapped in sweat. The image the mirror gave her was of a middle-aged woman she didn’t know. He panicked. “I was really surprised seeing an “older” woman looking at me and not the younger woman I was expecting“, to remember.
Alison Winterburn, the protagonist of this strange story, isn’t even crazy in the Matrix. at that moment she he believed – and still believes – that he was living in the turbulent 1970s and that he was enjoying his twenties.
Like a real-life rerun of the Adam Sanders film, ‘Like It’s the First Time’, Winterburn wakes up every morning believing that John Lennon is alivethat a menacing wall divides Berlin and that the Vietnam War is still going on.
But this is not the most shocking thing that the woman, who comes from Wilmslow in England, has had to (and must) face on a daily basis. She also “discovered” that she had been married for two decades and had two children.
A virus that made her go back in time
The culprit behind this insane mess is a severe traumatic brain injury that the woman suffered. But it all started in 2012 when her family realized it he spoke with difficulty and did not make eye contact.
So her husband Ray took her to the hospital, where she was checked and he was diagnosed with encephalitisdisease that causes inflammation of the brain, due to a virus.
The woman was treated with drugs, but it was too late to treat the lesion that had occurred in her frontal lobe. Y her life took a dramatic turn.
“I felt groggy and lightheaded for weeks when I returned home after three weeks at Manchester Royal Infirmary, the scariest thing was that my brain injury had caused an extreme loss short- and long-term memory,” Winterburn said.
“I had no idea where you were.not even in my house,” he recalled.
“I couldn’t quite figure out the time jump between the era I thought I was living in and my 21st century reality,” the woman added, adding, “I really believed (and sometimes still do) that it was still the 70s.”
Know yourself again
“This bewildering bout of confusion lasted for several weeks. Gradually, my short term memory has improved and, with continued support from my family, I’ve slowly come to terms with the real “me,” middle-aged, married with kids, the woman confessed.
“Actually I had to relearn who I was‘ she said. ‘I’ve been encouraged to improve,’ added the woman who is a psychology professor, though she hasn’t been able to practice again.
Winterburn explained that she has help from her children and her husband, but that “life is different”. “Not being able to go back to work was a disappointment because you lose all your independence.”
“I was devastatedbut eventually I resigned myself to my new limitations and retired from my teaching position.”
The challenges that still persist
“The main problem I still face today is i don’t know where i am. It’s like you’re not the same person you were before,” admitted Winterburn, 61.
“Still life can be very difficult when people don’t understand why I have memory problems and sometimes I think of that teenager in the mirror, longing to be her again for real.”
“However, my two now adult children have been encouraging and definitely positive after my brain injury and I am determined to rebuild my sense of self-worth“. hill.
Source: Clarin
Mark Jones is a world traveler and journalist for News Rebeat. With a curious mind and a love of adventure, Mark brings a unique perspective to the latest global events and provides in-depth and thought-provoking coverage of the world at large.