I Forgot to Remember : A Memoir of Amnesia

from zzshupinga

ARC Provided by NetGalley In 1988 Su Meck was a normal twenty-two year old young woman. She was happily married with two young children. And then everything changed when a ceiling fan fell and struck her on the head, that erased all of her memories up to that point. Just three short weeks later, ...

from bobbieharv

Had a hard time with this book - I just couldn't fathom how unkind her husband was to her, not to mention how she was able to function taking care of three kids without much help at all from him. One of those memoirs I call "undigested," in that (as one might expect, with a TBI) what happened to ...

from msbaba

Su Meck's extraordinary book, "I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia," made me feel like I was reading a tension-filled child-at-risk suspense thriller rather than a memoir. I became totally engrossed, practically gripping the book in two white-knuckled hands. I could barely put it down. It h...

from cjh5801

Like the author, my father suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and permanently lost all memory of his life from before his injury. Dad's injury happened a week after his 20th birthday, when the ammunition truck he was driving in the waning days of WWII was hit by a projectile of some sort and...

from karconner

I am not going to lie- I never finished the book. It felt redundant and didn't keep my interest. Although I am amazed by this woman's strength to relearn everything, including her own family, I found the writing style difficult to read. I felt as if I was reading a stream of consciousness sometim...