Originally Posted by
Machka
Rowan has commenced Post Traumatic Amnesia testing. They use the Westmead test here, which you can google if you're interested.
When he successfully completes the testing, he will be declared out of Post Traumatic Amnesia and into the next phase of his recovery.
When will that occur? Well, as usual, that depends on him. Could be days ... or a week, or two, or ...
But sooner would be better than later.
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I may have said this (my own memory is a bit dodgy just now!) ...
There are a large number of articles on Post Traumatic Amnesia, and I’ve looked through a bunch, but these two are probably the best in the sense that they are concise and straightforward. Many of the others go into long, technical descriptions of testing and all sorts of things which might be worth reading as well. But for something relatively brief, these are the best I’ve found.
This is from the Queensland Government, a Brisbane hospital.
https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au...c-amnersia.pdf
This is another one from Victoria Government, a Melbourne hospital.
https://www.thermh.org.au/sites/defa...V4.0_10.17.pdf
If you are interested in what Rowan (and I) are going through, check out those articles and check out Google for Post Traumatic Amnesia and Severe Brain Injury.
Good to hear of his progress.
We learned a bit about post traumatic amnesia a few years ago when my step daughter fell off her roof while putting up Christmas lights.
Her injuries included concussion, bleeding of the brain, broken ribs, a broken hip, and a broken hand.
While she was quite lucid very shortly after the accident, she had no memory of what happened, and an extensive loss of short term memory.
She had no idea why she would be in a hospital bed, and couldn't understand why she had so much pain when she would get out of bed to go to the bathroom. You could tell her she had a broken hip, and she would say, really? how did that happen? Five minutes later, you would have to tell her all over again.
Some longer term memories were affected for a while too. She is a world traveler, and goes somewhere new and exciting every year, but for several weeks, she could not recall her last trip.
The good news is, all her faculties returned, and her physical injuries completely healed, although to this day, she does not remember the fall.