Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Amnesiac Woman Tries to Solve Mystery of Who She Is

#1
C C Offline
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/officials-s...d=32127872

EXCERPT: An amnesiac [possibly Australian] woman is turning to the Internet in the hopes that someone can identify her after a large tumor left her with no memory of her family or friends.

Called "Sam," the woman was found in Southern California by firefighters in February and immediately taken to a local hospital, where she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer [...] Doctors told her a volleyball-sized ovarian tumor may have left her with few memories of her earlier life, according to the page.

[...] Dr. Alan Lerner [...] said ovarian tumors have been known in rare cases to cause memory loss or psychiatric problems for patients due to anti-bodies or proteins produced by the tumor. “[Proteins] can bind to the cells in the brain in areas that are important in memory.”

The woman had to have emergency surgery to remove the tumor [...] She also wrote that she had memories of being aboard a boat for months, explaining it was “not a cruise ship but smaller boat with a crew.”....
Reply
#2
stryder Offline
One of her sisters has identified her about 4 day ago.

Turns out she was a local but visited Australia a lot.
Reply


Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Article Lab-grown ‘ghost hearts’ work to solve organ transplant shortage C C 1 84 Aug 13, 2023 10:37 AM
Last Post: confused2
  Leprosy: the ancient disease scientists can't solve C C 0 62 Jan 30, 2023 07:38 PM
Last Post: C C
  Free will is not an illusion (Denis Noble tries again) C C 5 186 Oct 26, 2022 01:30 PM
Last Post: C C



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)