TGA BLOG

On the 18th June 2025, I experienced one of the strangest things to happen to me in my life so far. After a pretty normal morning spent chatting with my Son in Australia and busying myself around the house etc, I entered into what I now know to be a condition called Transient Global Amnesia. My next memory was at around 4am when I found myself sat in our local A&E department with my sister and my brother-in-law. I had apparently been to my gym class, tended to my horses and conversated with my friends. I had apparently called my daughter when I had left the gym not knowing where I had parked my car but she thought I was joking around as I am known to do. I drove to my horses but started to ask my friend the same question over and over, namely where my Shetland pony was who had been put to sleep around 4 weeks previously. My friend escorted me home where the same questioning continued, and becoming more concerned, my friend called my sister and her partner, an experienced paramedic, who attended me at my house. Initially, he thought I may have been experiencing a stroke, but checks carried out didn't match with that. I was taken for a CT scan, blood-works, and had chats with various doctors and staff. I presented as myself, animated, expressive even funny. But now the repetitive questioning had transformed into asking why we were in the hospital. Every few minutes, I would ask my sister why we were there and she would try to explain to me, I would laugh or look to understand and then ask the extact same thing a couple of minutes later.