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TGA?

Posted by on July 3, 2021

No, not TMI, though you could be excused for thinking that by the time you finish this post.

It stands for Transient Global Amnesia. 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.

So 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.

Besides, Rusty would have missed me.

So I am feeling fine today. But it is a bit scary.

It is also a good excuse to forget your birthday.

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