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Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #2276168

Each day feels new, and my memory of the one before is faint. Iā€™m learning to adapt.

In September 2019, a seizure revealed a lime-sized meningioma pressed against my hippocampusā€”the part of the brain that governs memory and language. The doctors said it was benign, but benign didnā€™t mean harmless.

Surgery removed the tumor, and three days later I opened my eyes to a new reality. I could walk, I could talk, but when I looked at my wife, her name was gone. I called her Preciousā€”the only word I could find. A failure of memory, yet perhaps the truest name of all.

Recovery has been less cure than re-calibration. Memory gaps are frequent. Conversations vanish. I had to relearn how to write, letter by halting letter. My days are scaffold by alarms, notes, and calendars.

When people ask how I am, I donā€™t list symptoms or struggles. I simply say, ā€œSeven Degrees Left of Center.ā€ Itā€™s not an answerā€”itā€™s who Iā€™ve become.

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