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Amnesia victim wandered for 25 days
yahoo news/AP ^ | Jan 26, 2007

Posted on 01/27/2007 8:27:07 AM PST by nuconvert

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1 posted on 01/27/2007 8:27:08 AM PST by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

He's lucky to be alive.


2 posted on 01/27/2007 8:32:03 AM PST by SIDENET (Everybody was kung-fu fighting)
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To: nuconvert

Wow.


3 posted on 01/27/2007 8:34:51 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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To: nuconvert

If it were me my butt would be in the pew every Sunday after that till the day I died...


4 posted on 01/27/2007 8:37:03 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: nuconvert
The workings of the brain are such a mystery.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Oliver Sacks

5 posted on 01/27/2007 8:39:01 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Facts are a Zionist plot!" --MarkL)
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To: Abathar

If you haven't, go to the link and click on the picture and read the caption next to it.


6 posted on 01/27/2007 8:39:27 AM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: Slings and Arrows
I've read three or four of his books.
Fascinating
7 posted on 01/27/2007 8:41:09 AM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: nuconvert

Yep, that says it all doesn't it?


8 posted on 01/27/2007 8:44:21 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: nuconvert

I've only read TMWMHWFAH, but I'm going to read more of his work. Fascinating indeed.


9 posted on 01/27/2007 8:45:05 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Facts are a Zionist plot!" --MarkL)
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To: nuconvert
Strange.


About 3 years ago there was a story of an older lady (70s, IIRC) who got lost at DFW airport. A follow up story about 3 months after her disappearance said that she still had not be found.

I never heard any more after that. Does anyone know whether she was ever found?

IIRC, she was traveling from the NW to Houston and had a lay over or flight change at DFW. She had Alzheimer's. I don't recall whether she was traveling alone or with someone else and got separated. The day she disappeared, I think the reports said she may had been seen walking/wandering south of the terminals area.

I have always wondered whether they ever found her and whether she was alive.
10 posted on 01/27/2007 8:46:38 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: nuconvert
Two thoughts: What if you got lost and nobody was looking for you?

and

Psychogenic Fugue: is that one of Bach's compositions?

11 posted on 01/27/2007 8:56:58 AM PST by Jagman (I drank François Rabelais under the table!)
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What happened to the dogs?


12 posted on 01/27/2007 8:57:26 AM PST by Temple Drake (quem timebo?)
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To: nuconvert
"he wandered the streets of Dallas and its environs a lost soul, unable to remember his name, what he did for a living, or where he lived"

I did that in college ... a lot. But it was in Cleveland. I think.

13 posted on 01/27/2007 8:57:44 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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An amazing story. . . would seem at least some aspect of memory working here; inasmuch as he ended up at 'building site' of his new home. Incredible. Like you cannot remember where you parked you car in the parking lot; and as soon as you think you cannot remember; you see you are already standing in front of it. . .hmmmm. . .a kind of parking fugue or. . .never mind. . .

(Or perhaps; the prayers of his wife and family; friends. . .moved him along safely and towards home.)

14 posted on 01/27/2007 9:02:18 AM PST by cricket (Save a Terrorist - join the Democrats/Live Liberal Free; or suffer their consequences)
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To: nuconvert

Gives me hope that I can forget my ex.


15 posted on 01/27/2007 9:07:55 AM PST by Ben Chad
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To: Temple Drake
From the article: "Bieger's dogs were found running loose within a few hours of his disappearance..."

It was a question I had as well.
16 posted on 01/27/2007 9:11:09 AM PST by mcshot ("If it ain't broke it doesn't have enough features." paraphrased anon.)
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To: Temple Drake

You asked it first.

(thanks for nuthin - mutts!)


17 posted on 01/27/2007 9:17:47 AM PST by jonno (...it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming...)
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"Bieger's dogs were found running loose within a few hours of his disappearance."

Must have been a couple "little rat dogs". A Shepard or Lab would never leave you in a time of trouble...


18 posted on 01/27/2007 9:22:22 AM PST by Harry Pothead
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To: Slings and Arrows

Thanks for the recommendation of the that book. Here is one that I picked up on Amazon used that was recommended also and it is incredible. It gave me a whole new perspective on how the human mind works.

OF TWO MINDS BY FREDERIC SCHIFFER, M.D.


19 posted on 01/27/2007 9:24:03 AM PST by FreeManWhoCan (**An American in Miami**)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I suggest "An Anthropologist On Mars".
"A Leg to Stand On" is a personal journey for Sacks, dealing with his own injury, survival and recovery.

Also, you might like books by V. S. Ramachandran, which include "Phantoms in the Brain", cowritten with Oliver Sacks.


20 posted on 01/27/2007 9:25:43 AM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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