Riley Horner who was accidentally kicked in the head on June 11 now wakes up every day and after every two hours thinking every day is June 11. unusual
The injury inflicted numerous seizures on Horner, and Doc assumed it was a mere concussion. After sending her home, Horner began suffering memory reset and this has left her doctors confused, as every test conducted have shown medical abnormality.
Riley’s mother, Sarah Horner, told WQAD: “They tell us there’s nothing medically wrong. They can’t see anything. You can’t see a concussion though on an MRI or a CT scan. There’s no brain bleed, there’s no tumor.”
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This condition has caused Riley to necessarily carry a notebook and pencil every day in school to help keep track of which locker is hers, what day it is, and what she has already forgotten.
Riley said: “I know it’s hard for them as much as it’s hard for me. And people just don’t understand. It’s like a movie.
“Like I will have no recollection of (this interview) come supper time…I’m not making memories. And I’m just like really scared.”
Sarah Horner said her brother recently died but said Riley “probably has no idea. And we tell her every day, but she has no idea about it.”
She continued: “(Doctors) told us she might just be like this forever. And I’m not ok with that.”
Sarah said she is now desperate for doctors to find out what is wrong with her daughter before it’s too late. She said she researched short term memory loss and found it can cause irreversible damage after six months.
“We need hep. We need somebody that knows a little bit more because she deserves better. I mean, she wanted to be in the medical field and now she can’t even hold a job if she wanted to.”
As for Riley, she said she just wants to find someone else who is experiencing the same mysterious illness, so they know they are not alone.
“Like I will have no recollection of (this interview) come supper time…I’m not making memories. And I’m just like really scared.”
arah Horner said her brother recently died but said Riley “probably has no idea. And we tell her every day, but she has no idea about it.”
She continued: “(Doctors) told us she might just be like this forever. And I’m not ok with that.”
Sarah is agitated and desperate for doctors to find out the problem with her daughter before it’s too late as the implication of having short term memory loss, which discovered from research, can cause irreversible damage after six months.
“We need hep. We need somebody that knows a little bit more because she deserves better. I mean, she wanted to be in the medical field and now she can’t even hold a job if she wanted to.”
As for Riley, she said she just wants to find someone else who is experiencing the same mysterious illness, so they know they are not alone.
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