Transient Global Amnesia<\/a>. Basically, you just lose memory of a period of time for no good reason. In my case it was between 9am and 2pm yesterday. I got a phone call from a friend around 9am, which I remember. The rest of the day (which was very dreary) I felt a bit “off” which I attributed to the weather. But when I looked at my phone call log late yesterday afternoon, I saw that I had spoken to my friend 4 more times between 9:30am and 2pm. I had absolutely no recollection of those calls (well, I had a vague recollection of him advising me, in the last call, to “get it checked out”). So I called him this morning to see if he could fill me in on these mysterious, forgotten calls. He said that I had sounded a little strange in the first call and had complained of being light-headed so he had called back to check on me. In the subsequent calls I had admitted that I had no memory of the first call, which alarmed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSo I did “get it checked out”, but not until this morning. Various triage tests and a CT scan revealed no problem, but the doctor wanted to admit me for further testing. But it is a holiday weekend and none of the tests could be performed until Tuesday. I signed myself out “against medical advice” because 2 days lounging in a hospital bed was not my idea of a great way to spend a holiday weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Besides, Rusty would have missed me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I am feeling fine today. But it is a bit scary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is also a good excuse to forget your birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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