xlando Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 now 18 "At 16, the Tennessee honor student and star athlete was hit from behind while playing in a routine soccer game. She fell to the ground, her head striking the hard turf. The blow knocked out just about all of Kiger's memories. " she couldn't remember her parents who they were & who she was. "With no physical trauma or swelling in her brain, doctors were positive Kiger's memory would return in a few days. But it did not. And 2½ years later, it still hasn't. Kiger -- who has no memory of her family, her childhood or her life before her injury -- has had to create new memories, rekindle relationships and relearn old skills. "The only thing I had … I could walk, write, but I didn't know what to write," Kiger said of the days after the accident. "Physically, I was OK, I guess, but mentally was a struggle." your memories wiped away by a soccer ball & having to start all over again. crazy. :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoItHeyDoIt Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 damn that's some fucked up shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackboatshoes Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 that sucks, i wonder if the person that hit her from behind was ejected. it must suck trying to become her friend again and having her deny you haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlando Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share Posted July 2, 2007 ahah, i thought about that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidflow Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 damn thats fucked up...i wonder if she'll ever remember..if she does is she gonna have memories of the stuff she did while she didnt have her old memories?...sorry if that sounds confusing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlando Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share Posted July 2, 2007 it makes sense but yeah no one knows for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidflow Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 just imagine some guy that fucked up getting with her? and now he has another chance..and they get together and when they are fucking she remembers everything... that would be some shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Fuentes Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 hey i dont know nothing about her life,but probally was on its way to become a whore,God does what he wants,no need to feel sorry,the girl is ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidflow Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 yeah shes okay but she probably tripping every day trying to remember whats up and shit like that.. i know i would.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable. Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 sad. i thought that shit only happened on tv. i know losing memory happens with getting knocked out, but that's only temporary and the only thing permanent is usually just the short segmented time period before the knockout and the unconsciousness itself of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlando Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share Posted July 2, 2007 she has a rare case of amnesia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 Ok, first, Juan Fuentes, iono if you were jokin, but thats rediculous. Secondly, I find this pretty interesting. I would venture to guess it is not so much that her memories are gone (for I am of the school of that that believes our memories themselves are actually the structure of the neural networks in our brain. Particularly in that to activate a memory is to activate a particular pathway.) I would think, in that case, that it is not the memories that are gone, but the particular mode in which we encode information. If to draw back a memory, a stimulus is encoded and then goes through a similar pathways as all thins which are associated with such stimuli, then I wonder if she just sort of reset her Hippocampus and fucked up the relationship between short term memory and construction of long term memory. Sort of like what happens to hardcore alcoholics, but in a different sense. Also, I doubt that we have the ability to see all trauma. Surely something happened. There was an event, and something changed. That means something had to change in the physical structure of her brain, but the means in which we detect such changes must not be sensitive enough to capture what changed in this case. This is a good example of the relationship between adequate theories and predictability and the technologies which drive such theories. Because we can not see what changed in her brain, we can not develope a causal theory as to what happened. Not to get all Philosophy of Science in this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlando Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share Posted July 2, 2007 thank you for that very thorough analysis but i wonder.. that soccer game.. did they win ? does she act the same as she did before? has she dramatically changed ? curiousity sucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 sarcasm, or not, your welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlando Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share Posted July 2, 2007 now that i read it over it does sound pretty damn sarcastic. but really intrigueing. even though i might have not understand a good half of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 i do what i can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILOTSMYBRAIN Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 hey i dont know nothing about her life,but probally was on its way to become a whore,God does what he wants,no need to feel sorry,the girl is ok. wow, rofl, you're a funny dude. too bad, someone doesn't knock you're ass to the turf, and make you forget about these forums. anyway, sucks for real, to have a soccer game completely wipe you're mind of all of you're memories that would suck, passwords to shit, combinations to locks, not to mention you're child hood and friends wow man that really blows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable. Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 ILOTSMYBRAIN's name is fitting for this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlando Posted July 3, 2007 Author Share Posted July 3, 2007 lots ? hah she lost her memory doing what she LOVED. haha, pretty ironic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILOTSMYBRAIN Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 ILOTSMYBRAIN's name is fitting for this thread. HAHA, i didn't even think of it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amongst Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 at one of my friends soccer games, one of his teammates testicles got twisted. thats pretty crazy too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amongst Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 but yeah, poor girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amongst Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 just imagine some guy that fucked up getting with her? and now he has another chance..and they get together and when they are fucking she remembers everything... that would be some shit haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknown_urge Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 what if.. she was in love... and she didnt remember it.. and the guy told her.. and she didnt believe it... and it killed him inside... and he cried in front of her... damn that would suck... I feel so bad.. all i can say is I hope it comes back, or they do like 50 first dates and make a tape Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KniggazInDemStreetz Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 There's a movie about a guy like this, Unknown White Male, he lost his memory all random, he doesn't remember how, check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WORDISM45 Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 A guy i went to primary school and now work with had this happen to him while snowboarding when he was 14. He has absolutely no memory of anything before he woke up in the hospital still after 6 years. The first time i saw him since the incident he said hi because he had been told that he went to school with me and i didn't know about his condition so i started asking him about mutual friends and he had absolutely no idea who i was talking about and he told me aobut what happened. He's a really cool guy, he's completely normal apart from having no memory of his childhood. He told me he doesn't like his family and feels no particular affection for his parents, which is really interesting because all the instinctive love and attachment that would have resulted from his parents nurturing him as a child has gone. He could make an absolute killing getting experimented no by psychologists i rekshn also interesting to note that he didn't remember any of his friends when he went back to high school and he didn;t form the same bonds with people that he had previous to the incident Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeping secrets Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I mean, this is some pretty fucked up shit. I hit my head on walls all the time when im drunk. I also just hit my head all the time, its really awful. What if i loose my memory.. what the fuck am i going to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidflow Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 ^^^^^^ probably start life again? and try to make it work?.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILOTSMYBRAIN Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 He told me he doesn't like his family and feels no particular affection for his parents, which is really interesting because all the instinctive love and attachment that would have resulted from his parents nurturing him as a child has gone. also interesting to note that he didn't remember any of his friends when he went back to high school and he didn;t form the same bonds with people that he had previous to the incident ya, i didn't really get into it, but thats what i ment when i posted what i did. i kinda thought most of that would happen, imagine basically being told you're history to yourself, and you had to basically digest it for what it was, god talk about an identity crisis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KARTOONKILLA Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 that must be horrible to be that girl. not ever remembering your own parents. thats crazy shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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