Oops - I lost a whole day and found myself in hospital!

? GrannyActivist. Rest and take care.

Goodness me - that sounds scarey! Please take care and look after yourself.

Wishing you all the very best Grannyactivist,and your DH too.
What a fright you both had.
I believe your body is telling you to slow down.

How very frightening for you GA. I hope that you can relax and rest because that is what your body needs and is telling you to do right now. Just let your body do what it needs to and very soon you’ll be able to see your doctor who will be able explain it all to you and reassure you. ?

Best wishes. Have a good rest and get well soon.

I haven’t lost a day, but I lost a few miles - driving back home one day , on a route used almost daily, and suddenly didn’t know where I was. so I stopped and gathered my senses. This happened another time, on way to drop my GC at their other grandparents’ house. Turned into the road where they live and then lost my bearings and my GC had to say that I was on the right road. I have to say, these incidents happened when I much younger and going through a painful divorce.
I’m sure your GP will have the answers

Perhaps it's a defence mechanism when the body is simply rebelling? Please try to look inwards for just a little while. The people out there who need you can wai

t a little. ?

I'm sorry you've been through this experience grannyactivist .
I went through the same on Hogmanay three years ago. It started in the afternoon when I asked DH "Have we had Christmas yet?". I thought I might be having a mini stroke and eventually ended up in A & E. Most of what happened after I left home was totally obliterated from my mind, which was unable to lay down memories at the time! Apparently I said the Prime Minister was Tony Blair. Mind you, one of my last memories was of watching The Queen on TV that afternoon and Tony was PM on that!
When I finally left hospital about 2am I was starting to "thaw" a bit. I lay in bed desperately trying to piece things together but ... zilch. It was all very weird and upsetting for DH who'd had to repeatedly answer the same questions ..."Where am I?" " Where are the kids"? "What's wrong with me ?"
I haven't had a recurrence. The hospital gave me some reassuring notes on the condition which isn't fully understood but normally passes within 24 hours.

That's frightening Grannyactivist hope you are feeling better now. As others have said this is as the name suggests a transient thing which hopefully you will not experience again. Time to relax now and let the wonderful man and your family take care of you.

Thank you all for your good wishes. ?

My family have rallied round today and attempted to ‘fill in the gaps’ in my memory. Apparently I was able to repeatedly phone my son - and each time I got through I told him exactly the same as before, so that in the end he got his wife to FaceTime me so that he could drive to me without my constant interruptions. He then retrieved my husband and together they drove me to the hospital, where fortunately, due to my complete confusion, the staff allowed my husband to stay with me.

My daughter-in-law laughingly (and I’m sure delightedly) told me today that during my conversation with her yesterday I was telling her how lovely she is and how much I love her; when my son asked where I live I told him I live with my ‘wonderful husband’ and I told the doctor who treated me that although I couldn’t see her face I’m sure she must have a ‘very lovely smile’. I’m very pleased to learn that even though I’d ‘lost’ my mind I didn’t lose touch with what’s important. ?

Reading this thread shows you are certainly not alone grannyactivist but goodness, how scary. As others have said, your body is telling you something so best listen. Time to allow yourself the same love and care you offer others. Rest well,

3 weeks before christmas i had a gp appointment at 4.30 on a wednesday, i had a small cyst on my breast and having had 2 lots of cancer over the past 3 years was worried, i remember standing outside the doctors, then nothing till the saturday, i woke up to find out i was on the infectious diseases ward, turned out i had cellulitis that turned septic, doctors said another few hours and i would have died, i came home on christmas eve and pieced together what happened from neighbours who found me walking about and called an ambulance, that missing time has really frightened me as i live on my own, i keep thinking what if. i hope they find out what was the cause of your missing day, good luck and take care.

Not on the same level as this but years ago I left a marriage guidance counselling session having been told by the counsellor the ‘your marriage is over’ and I had to stop driving and pull over to the side of the road as I couldn’t remember what side of the road I should be driving on. Grannyactivist: you’ve spent your life looking after other people, it’s time you looked after yourself. Please take care xx

Oh dear natures way ………ease up a little, stress is taking it’s toll so give in a little xxx

GA, I'm so sorry to hear about this worrying experience. I knew someone who also had this complete lapse of memory during which she apparently behaved as normal, but when she 'came to' had no idea of what she had done. These things happen for a reason and it was clear from your most recent post that you were under monumental stress. I hope that you are recovering and able to take things easy.

It must have been a very frightening experience for you. I hope you can recover as soon as possible. Please take care. xx

How frightening, grannyactivist
I hope it's a one-off occurrence as others have said and perhaps caused by the stress you have had recently. Nature's way of getting your mind to rest for a while, perhaps? ?

Thank goodness you didn't tell them all you didn't like them really ?

I had a three hour memory loss a few years ago. We were returning by train from visiting our daughter and three month old twins. Last thing I remembered was leaving her house to catch a bus and then two trains to get home, next thing I remember was getting off the train at our home town, about three hours later. According to DH I didn’t know where I was, didn’t remember the twins being born, kept asking him the same questions over and over again, and apparently getting very upset because I thought I was losing my marbles! I was relieved when it was eventually diagnosed and the consultant said it would probably not happen again. But I don’t recall being under any stress before this happened.

A frightening experience, do let the family take care of you for a bit

Goodness - I'd never heard of this before, but it seems relatively common, from reading the comments. What a frightening thing to happen.

grannyactivist I hope you are making the most of being cherished and cared for, and that you are back to your usual self before long.

Take things easy and look after yourself. .

Look after yourself as you look after everyone else.

I’m in bed now and still feeling quite emotional. After I pushed him, my husband finally allowed me to listen to just one of the voicemail messages I left him yesterday and it’s quite obvious that I was terrified. Happily I have no memory of it, but I was very sick yesterday (apparently due to shock) and my ribs are still quite sore.

My sons and their families visited me this afternoon and, being great fans of ‘Finding Nemo’, they asked if it was too soon to start calling me Granny Dory! ?

Thanks to those of you who shared your own stories, it’s helpful knowing how others coped in similar situations.

Thanks too for all your kind comments which I have taken to heart. The Wonderful Man has taken charge of my work phone and is also reading then forwarding/deleting my emails so that I don’t get drawn in to work situations. We’re also going away for a few days soon - on a mini break at a hotel, rather than self-catering as we normally do. Not sure I know how to be pampered, but I’ll give it a go. ?