London _ Agencies
The 25-year-old British young woman, Fran Gil, did not know that one day she would not be able to identify her closest family members and friends, after a complicated process of a rare brain disease.
After the operation, Jill woke up "a completely different person" after her memories were erased due to a rare encephalitis, in which the body´s immune system started attacking intact brain cells, the British newspaper "Mirror " reported Saturday.
The marine biologist, from the province of Cornwall in Britain, lost everything she knew, including her five-year university education, and now has to learn how to get to know everything around her again.
"I didn´t imagine having a meeting with people I´ve known for years was like meeting for the first time," Jill said. It´s really sad. I also feel like I meet myself again, because I have absolutely no idea what I was before today ".
"People say that I am a new person, that I am different and that they are compelled to accept it. All I want is to go back to my beautiful old memories. "
The problem began with a generation of migraine headaches, which forced her to stay in bed for a week, where doctors thought the headache was caused by a muscle tightening in the neck at first.
But it evolved a few days later, when one of her friends asked her for an ambulance to take her directly to a hospital, and there was a coma in order to save her life, to ensure that no sudden movement could worsen.
A week later, after waking up in the hospital as a completely different person, Jill felt unable to read, walk or talk for several weeks, at which time she still needed to re-learn many basic life skills.
"Doing the simplest things, such as using a computer or navigating a supermarket, has become very difficult," she said.
"It´s sad that all the years I´ve spent have been wiped out just like someone licked the chalk from the blackboard," she said.
