I wonder if this man would have regained his memory on his own had he not been recognized by someone who knew him and being brought back to his family? Also, at link below there is another man who has been missing since March and it's thought that he may have amnesia.
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Joe Bieger, 60, lived most of his life in Oklahoma City, but moved with his wife, Patricia, to the Dallas area in 2005. (he was eventually diagnosed with
global amnesia, a condition that essentially wipes the brain clean of all memories.)
Last Oct. 6, wearing a T-shirt and shorts, he left the house before 6 a.m. to walk his dogs. He remembers feeling ill, even worse than two bouts of dizziness and disorientation he had suffered in the weeks before that.
A couple of hours later, the dogs were found a mile away, their leash tangled on a street sign. But Bieger didn't come home.
Bieger has only tiny snippets of memory from the 25 days he was missing.
He remembers waking up on a school playground one chilly morning. He found a sweat shirt and cut off the sleeves to put over his legs to stay warmer.
He recalls sleeping under a construction trailer one night and at a coin laundry another. With no money on him, he has a faint memory of eating discarded french fries off the table at a restaurant. Jelly packets and part of a bagel were discovered in his pockets when he was finally found.
One unusual recollection he retained was stopping at a bowling alley and talking to a man who was in the midst of rolling a perfect game. Once he was questioned by police investigating a pizza restaurant robbery.
Another memory that came back to him weeks later is stopping at a red brick church. He even remembered the name and that it was a mostly African-American congregation. He and his family later tracked down the church and stopped there to talk to people who remember their encounter with Bieger.
"They said I walked up on their Halloween carnival. I talked about my grandkids and that I had lost my car keys," Bieger said. They said he also claimed he was a volunteer at a nearby Habitat for Humanity work site, which wasn't true.
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More at link:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=594166
