October 30th 2024.
Luciano D'Adamo's world changed completely when he woke up from a coma five years ago. It was March 20, 1980, or at least that's what he believed. In reality, it was 2019 and he was 68 years old. The confusion and disorientation were overwhelming as he tried to make sense of his surroundings. He didn't recognize his wife or son when they came to visit him in the hospital. And when he asked to call his mother, he was told the heartbreaking news that she had passed away.
In a recent interview, D'Adamo shared his experience of waking up from the coma and how it felt like a surreal nightmare. He had no recollection of his marriage and even thought he had a 19-year-old girlfriend. To him, he was still working at Fiumicino airport in Rome and the accident that caused his coma had not yet happened.
When his wife came to see him, he couldn't believe that she was actually his wife. And when his 30-year-old son called him "dad," he thought it was a joke. How could this man be his son when he believed he was only 23 years old? It was a shock to look in the mirror and see an elderly man staring back at him. He described it as a terrifying experience, like something out of a horror movie.
The reality of losing 39 years of memories hit D'Adamo hard. He couldn't remember major events like Italy's World Cup victories or who Silvio Berlusconi was. Even his love for football and his favorite team, Roma, seemed to have disappeared from his mind. His wife tried to help him remember by showing him old photos and videos, but it was like trying to piece together a puzzle with missing pieces.
To D'Adamo, it felt like he had only lived a third of his life. He was now working in a school and had never received compensation for the hit-and-run incident. The driver responsible was never found. Despite his positive attitude and determination to move forward, he couldn't help but feel a deep sense of loss.
He compared his memory to a jukebox from the seventies, where only certain records could be played. The rest of his life was like a blank space, and it was a constant struggle to fill in the missing pieces. But he had learned that memory is what makes life worth living. And without it, everything else just flies away in the wind.
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