Topic: 45 Yr. old woman graduates college after suffering total memory loss at age 22.

[Flame]

Just as it says on the tin.

A community college commencement is, for many, a celebration of second chances.

Consider Su Meck. The 45-year-old homemaker from Gaithersburg graduated Friday from Montgomery College with an associate degree in music. It’s the culmination of a life that, in most senses of the word, began at 22.

In February 1988, a ceiling fan fell on Meck’s head. The blow erased her memory, and she awoke after a week in a coma with the mental capacity of a young child. She no longer knew her husband or her two baby sons. She barely spoke and could not read or write, walk or eat, dress or drive.

“It was Su 2.0,” said Jim Meck, her husband, a systems engineer. “She had rebooted.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/gaithersburg-woman-earns-college-degree-two-decades-after-complete-memory-loss/2011/05/19/AFWAMg8G_story.html

Wow. I cant imagine what that must be like. For either side. Family, AND herself.

[Rin]

Holy Stuffz.
Here I thought stuff like this is only possible in movies and cartoons... boy, do I stand corrected.

It must have been really horrible for her.

[Krystal]

Somehow I found it really cute how the husband described her condition in such a geeky way xD;

I wonder though, would she have young tastes like the 23 year olds of today? After all, she forgot about the pop culture that she had loved as a kid =\ That's some determination though \o/

[Flame]

well she would have developed tastes based on stuff present after the accident, so yeah I guess so. In another article she said "I am definitely not the same person he married," when discussing how while her children never knew her before the accident, her husband of course, did. Saying it must have been difficult for him.

[Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon]

Jeez. At least she didn't turn into someone else. That would be horrible for the family.

[Flame]

Jeez. At least she didn't turn into someone else. That would be horrible for the family.

She did though. Read: she literally was reset, and had to start over

[Dantonumanoa Ongdolota Amycronicon]

She did though. Read: she literally was reset, and had to start over

I was thinking more along the lines of leaving her family and stuff.

[Sky Child]

pretty fantastic that she got totally back on her feet after all that, a lot of people aren't so lucky