

Friend writes 'cheat sheet' for memory loss sufferer

If you ever wake up in a hospital bed wondering where you are, what day it is – or why the floor looks so amazing – let's hope you have a friend as good as this.
The best buddy of a US woman affected by severe short-term memory loss after suffering complications in hospital wrote a "cheat sheet" answering all of her friend's most pertinent questions.
The unidentified woman, known only by her Reddit screen name JoDiegoJo, is believed to have been admitted to hospital after feeling ill for a few days, Gawker reports.
After an ER nurse allegedly administered a drug which reacted with another medicine in her body, JoDiegoJo contracted a mysterious illness which wiped her short-term memory every five minutes.
Either out of love or a frustration – perhaps a bit of both – a long-suffering friend wrote up a one-page summary with "READ THIS" scrawled across the top, which she stuck to her pal's bed.
"You're able to hold a conversation, but you go through the same series of questions again and again," the note reads. "It's like 50 First Dates."
The humorous memo goes on to explain everything from the immediate question of her recent history, medical diagnosis and her kids' wellbeing.

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But while the messages are mostly reassuring, the friend's exasperation can also be read between the lines.
Apart from swearing at her elderly relatives, the patient also appears to have developed a fixation on the quality of the "fancy" hospital floors.
"Yeah bro, I don't know what your fascination with the floor is, but you've said that like 800 times."
Sources: Gawker, Reddit.
Author: Matthew Henry. Approving editor: Emily O'Keefe.

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