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Man with amnesia starts doing housework after accident
Man with amnesia starts doing housework after accident
A Turkish man who developed amnesia after falling and hitting his head on a sidewalk in 2014 cannot remember anything about his past life. But his wife enjoys the new habits he developed, such as cooking and cleaning the house.
Serdar Mete, a 38-year-old pharmaceutical representative, was hospitalized after falling twice in the district of Derince in Turkey’s northwestern province of Kocaeli. Bumping his head on the side of the pavement, he was unable to remember his family members, home address and job.
“I could not recognize my wife of five years. She started shaking me, saying ‘How dare you don’t know me,’ but the doctors warned her that I could have been suffering a concussion. I stayed in hospital for about two-and-a-half months,” Mete said.
“I lost 34 years in two seconds,” he added, saying that he started his new life by learning how to use a phone, computer and search engines on the internet.
His wife, Nurşah Mete, told Demirören News Agency that she convinced him of their marriage by showing their family record booklet. Telling her way of finding was a relief, she said: “He used to try and crack an egg into a pan with its shell, that sort of a guy he was. After the accident he turned to be a man cooking diced lamb fried on iron plate. I was about to cry with joy … ‘You used to cook, do the cleaning, wash the dishes,’ I always told him. Was he doing them? Never! But now, he does all of them.”
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