For the past three months, Riley Horner, a teenage girl from Illinois, has been waking up every morning thinking it is June 11th.
“I have a calendar on my door and it says it's September. Everytime. when I see it. "What? What?" Wow! “, - says the girl.
To make matters worse, subsequently her memory is reset every 2 hours, which is why she cannot remember what she was doing and what people she met.
Riley's troubles began after she was accidentally hit in the head by another teenager during a dance class. She had no symptoms at first, but then she started having seizures.
At the same time, in the hospital, the doctors did not find signs of a concussion in her and at first they even simply sent her home, although the girl could hardly move.
Only later did the doctors begin to study Riley's problem more closely, but even then they did not reveal any abnormalities in her physical condition. The blow to the head did not even leave her a bump, but in some mysterious way managed to influence her long-term memory.
“They say that from a medical point of view there are no pathologies. And they can't find anything. She had MRI and CT and there is no bleeding in the brain and no tumors. At the same time, you will certainly not see signs of a concussion on these devices, says Sarah Horner, the girl's mother.
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In three months, Riley's condition did not improve, and during this time she had more than a dozen seizures. To memorize the events of the day, she writes everything down in a notebook, takes pictures on her phone and sets a reminder alarm every 2 hours to read these notes and refresh her memory.
To make it easy for her to find her locker at school, there is a special note on it that this is Riley's locker.
“My brother passed away last week and she had already forgotten about it. We remind her of this every day, but she forgets everything again. - says Sarah Horner.
“I understand that all this is very difficult for them, as well as for me. But other people do not seem to understand the real problem, for them it sounds more like a movie plot. And I won't even have memories of this interview by dinner,”the girl says.
“We need a doctor who really understands this area, because my daughter deserves to be helped. After all, she dreamed of becoming a doctor, and now she will not even be able to find herself any job with all her desire,”adds Riley's mother in despair.