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OK, I want to tell you the story about me rebuilding myself and doing things that I
didn't think I could do. And one of them was travel. I was terrified of going to a strange
country, a strange venue, with strange people that I could not identify. I had difficulty
identifying faces. I had difficulty with spacial type things. Spacial encompasses time, face
recognition and where we as individuals are. in relationship to everything else.
But we are our brains. And when they're injured, we're in deep trouble. Now, spacial memory
and remembering where we are in relationship to everything else: a simple thing like sitting
down in a chair, which we simply take for granted, we never even think about it. It's
just a part of us, requires a lot of memory. We have to remember as we're lowering our
body, that the chair is going to stop our seat from falling forever.
But when you lose that memory completely, then you feel like you're falling off the
earth, every time you go to sit down and you can't sit anymore. You can't sit like a normal
person. You have to sneak up on the chair and feel your way into it. So, it's a horrible
affliction.
Now, mine has mostly come back where I can function. But I have a difficult time with
time. So when I say 15 minutes to you, it goes "***" in your head. It's a little chunk
of time that goes off in your head and you know distinctly how much time 15 minutes is.
So if you said, I'm going to talk for 15 minutes, you would pretty much wrap it up in a 15-minute
period just by knowing intuitively that it's a 15-minute time slot in your head. I can't
do that anymore. I can ramble on ad nauseum on a subject and not realize that I have overtalked
it because I don't realize how much time has gone by.