I thought my boyfriend was an Uber driver & barely recognised my own daughter after car crash made me lose my memory
I thought my boyfriend was an Uber driver & barely recognised my own daughter after car crash made me lose my memory
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A MUM has been dubbed the real life '50 first dates' after a brain injury led her to forget her partner and barely recognise her own daughter. As a result, she suffered from other concussions throughout her life, with the effects getting worse every time.
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In 2022, Nesh, who lives in Toronto, Canada, had another bump on the head and when she woke up, suffered a bout of severe memory loss, even forgetting that she had a partner, Johannes Jakope, and six-year-old daughter. “I reportedly was very confused and didn’t know what was going on,” Nesh explained to Newsweek.
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“Then over the course of a couple of hours, I lost my memory. By that evening I didn’t know who my partner was. I didn’t know much about my daughter. That’s so difficult.”. Nesh was taken to the hospital as she was in a constant state of panic about where she was and who she was with.
In fact, when she woke up, she thought her partner, now husband, was her Uber driver. Her partner regularly filmed their interactions as evidence for her memory loss as some doctors failed to believe it was from a brain injury. In one clip, she asked him, “Are you the Uber?” “I’m your boyfriend,” he responded.
“Oh, no, my mom’s going to be so mad,” she says, adding that she “can’t have a boyfriend.”. During her three-day stay in the hospital, the five psychiatrists who assessed her confirmed the issue was not psychological and she was finally approved to see a neurologist.
