Standing in front of the mirror, Naomi Jacobs didn’t recognise the face staring back. Where had the lines and grey hair come from?
Naomi is 32 but, after waking up from a nap, she was convinced she was 15.“I was in a bed I didn’t recognise and didn’t know what house I was in,” she recalls. “I thought I was dreaming.”But when she saw her face in the bathroom mirror, she knew she was awake.
Naomi says: “I expected to see a clear-skinned 15-year-old, but I didn’t recognise the face staring back at me.“I was an adult. I was old. I thought, ‘What the hell has happened?’”
That morning, on April 28, 2008, she had taken his son Leo to school and gone home to study when, tired, she decided to take a short nap.But she woke up suffering a disease, a rare temporary memory disorder brought on by severe stress.
The condition, which affects one person in 100,000, had wiped out 17 years of Naomi’s emotional memories.
She saw framed photos on the wall and noticed a young boy in many of them. “I wondered if he was my little brother because he looked so much like me.” she says. But it was her son Leo.
Naomi grabbed the phone. “This number was going around in my head, so I dialled it to see if anybody would answer.” Her friend Katie answered, but Naomi didn’t recognise her voice.
“She was a complete stranger to me,” she says. “I went into a panic again.”
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