His own wedding, September 11, the fall of the Wall, two football World Cups for Italy – everything forgotten: 68-year-old Italian Luciano d’Adamo has no memory of 39 years of his life after a traffic accident.
The caretaker of a school in Rome is now trying to find his way in his environment with the help of doctors and psychologists. He gradually had to get used to mobile phones, the euro and many other things.
After the accident, the Italian thought he was 24 years old
D’Adamo was hit by a car in Rome in 2019 and lost consciousness. When he woke up in the hospital, he was convinced it was 1980, that he was 24 years old and still living with his parents, he told the newspaper Il Messaggero. He recognized neither his wife nor his son. When he first saw himself in the mirror – a man with white hair – he screamed, the Roman told Rai television.
At the hospital he also asked to inform his mother. But then a so-called stranger entered the room. “She called me Luciano. And I wondered how she knew my name.” That was his wife.
Later, a 35-year-old man introduced himself: his son. D’Adamo recalls his thoughts at the time: “How can a man born long before me be my son? And which woman? I was not married, but I was engaged, not to this woman who must have been almost sixty, but to a girl of nineteen.”
Family and friends support D’Adamo
Since then, the Italian has been trying to reconstruct his previous life, also with the help of family and friends – which, however, causes him great difficulty. It also often has to be right for photos. “Every now and then I meet someone who greets me,” he reported to “Messaggero”. ‘It must be an old friend, but I don’t know who he is. So out of politeness I pretend to recognize him and greet him back.’
Source: Krone
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