missing student found

Early in September, my roommates and I went down to the Pace campus for dinner and we saw a bunch of signs for a missing student.  One of the girls said, without hope and a hint of sadness, “i’m sure she’s dead.”  I am happy to report that said student is alive and, for the most part, well. This article was in the New York Times the other day. Check this out.

After her rescue, while she was recovering from hypothermia and dehydration at Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, she was told that she was suffering from dissociative fugue, a rare form of amnesia that causes people to forget their identity, suddenly and without warning, and can last from a few hours to years.

You forget who you are, but remember all the details of how to do day to day stuff. Apparently she logged into Gmail while she was missing but had no idea who the emails were to or from; it was just a response cuz she did it at the computer all the time. That’s so scary. Somebody even asked her if she was the missing Pace student, and she denied it, not knowing that she actually was! How bizarre.

Edited: March 2nd, 2009