Ammon – An Italian wakes up after a five-year coma as a result of a hit-and-run accident in Rome, to find himself still living in the year 1980.
A medical condition that worries doctors
The man, whose name is Luciano D’Adamo and who is 68 years old, remembers everything before 1980, but is not aware of anything after this year, which disturbed on doctors who believed he had the unique condition, according to the British newspaper The Times.
D’Adamo, who works as a chef, had been involved in the accident in 2019 while throwing rubbish from the cafe, and when he woke up in hospital, he confirmed that the accident had happened on March 20, 1980, on a day when he was planning to visit his girlfriend, and he believed that his age was then 23 years old.
Di Damo when he saw himself in the mirror: I saw an old man and I didn’t recognize myself
But when he saw himself in the mirror, he shouted, saying: I saw an old man, and I did not recognize myself, describing how he felt shocked as if he were living in a scene from a horror movie.
D’Adamo confirms that the years in which he received treatment did not help him to regain his memory, and that he does not remember details from the following 39 years, or events or people.
For her part, Chiara Incocchia, a neuropsychologist at Santa Lucia Hospital in Rome, was surprised, saying that amnesia due to trauma can lead to the loss of recent memories or even all of them, but that she has not encountered a case that going further. several decades.
Di Damo’s wife is fighting to get her husband’s memory back
When his wife visited him in the hospital, he didn’t recognize her, because she didn’t look like the girlfriend he knew in the 1980s.
His son came after him and asked him: Hello, Dad, how are you? D’Adamo responded with surprise: Who is this man? He looks to be in his thirties. how is my son
The wife did not let into the rare state of her husband, and she began to talk to him about the years he had forgotten and to stimulate his memory by using pictures and videos, but he only remembered a few moments, such as the birth of his children and Francesco Totti’s Penalty Kick in the 2000 European Championship.
As he tried to make sense of the last few decades, he celebrated the victories of his team, Roma, and watched the recordings of Italy’s victory in the 1982 World Cup, as if he had lived the event. .
When he left the hospital, Di Damo was living in a strange world
When he left the hospital, Luciano D’Adamo was surprised by new technologies, such as the GPS screen in his son’s car, which he described as a “moving map,” and was told that there was no television of the day. today just a thin screen on the wall. .
According to D’Adamo, he enjoys researching historical events he missed using the internet, saying: If there were only encyclopedias, I would be less informed.
For her part, Encokia revealed that D’Adamo claimed memory loss due to the great suffering he and his family went through while trying to rebuild their relationships.
D’Adamo says he is struggling to get his normal life back and is feeling unhappy, noting his grief after learning his mother died without him. to remember her funeral.
Di Damo says sadly: It is the only life I have that I remember, but the rest has been lost in oblivion.
It should be noted that a similar case happened to the Italian Di Damo in Manchester in 2008, when Naomi Jacobs woke up after a nap, thinking she was fifteen years old, but she returned recall eight weeks later.
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