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Ever since that fateful day in October 2018, Kim Denicola has undergone several rounds of brain scans and medical exams, but doctors have been unable to come up with an explanation for her sever memory loss. She showed no signs of a stroke or brain damage, so she has been diagnosed with an extremely rare condition known as Transient Global Amnesia. But even as a TGA sufferer, Kim’s case stands out because of the long period of time she appears to have forgotten. “The time period of memory loss is longer. She’s recalling back to where she doesn’t remember computers, so that was back in the 80s or 90s, so that’s really unusual that you have that type of memory loss associated,” Dr Tasha Shamlin told Fox8. Sudden memory loss is usually temporary, but according to a recent report by Inside Edition, Kim Denicola’s strange amnesia has persisted for five months now. Her family, who she has gradually gotten reacquainted with, hoped that looking at old photos would help jog her memory, but so far that has not worked.
Kim Denicola is currently rediscovering all the things that she has forgotten from the past 38 years, including mundane things like smartphones, computers and flat-screen TVs, and coming to to terms with tragedies she has no recollection of, like the deaths of her parents and brother. “They’re gone, but all these other ones I’m just going to learn what to do and how to, how to be their mom, at 18,” Denicola said. Despite all the challenges of waking up in a whole new world, surrounded by people she doesn’t remember meeting before, Kim Denicola is determined to make the best of her new life. “If the memories don’t come back, I can make new ones,” she said.