Of the many strange news stories here is a particularly bizarre one from the Wash Post. It sounds like something from a SK short story:
"The man, called only “WO” by his physicians, woke up on the morning of March 14, 2005, at his military post in Germany. He headed to the gym, where he played a 45-minute round of volleyball, then returned to his office to answer a backlog of e-mails. In the afternoon he went to his dentist for a routine root canal treatment. He clambered into the reclining chair, donned a pair of tinted glasses, felt his mouth go numb as the dentist inserted local anesthetic.
Every day since, no matter what the actual date happens to be, WO wakes up thinking it’s the morning of March 14, 2005, believing he is still in Germany and that this is the day of his dentist appointment. His life is something of a “Groundhog Day” in reverse — while the rest of the world moves on, WO is the only person who isn’t aware of time passing. Starting from that moment in the dentist’s chair a decade ago, he hasn’t been able to remember almost anything for longer than 90 minutes. Then he forgets it, a switch flips, and he’s back to March 14, 2005, once more.
The case, which WO’s doctors Gerald Burgess and Bhanu Chadalavada dissect in a study published in the journal “Neurocase,” is indeed a medical mystery."
A baffling medical puzzle: How a man’s trip to the dentist cost him the ability to form new memories - The Washington Post
"The man, called only “WO” by his physicians, woke up on the morning of March 14, 2005, at his military post in Germany. He headed to the gym, where he played a 45-minute round of volleyball, then returned to his office to answer a backlog of e-mails. In the afternoon he went to his dentist for a routine root canal treatment. He clambered into the reclining chair, donned a pair of tinted glasses, felt his mouth go numb as the dentist inserted local anesthetic.
Every day since, no matter what the actual date happens to be, WO wakes up thinking it’s the morning of March 14, 2005, believing he is still in Germany and that this is the day of his dentist appointment. His life is something of a “Groundhog Day” in reverse — while the rest of the world moves on, WO is the only person who isn’t aware of time passing. Starting from that moment in the dentist’s chair a decade ago, he hasn’t been able to remember almost anything for longer than 90 minutes. Then he forgets it, a switch flips, and he’s back to March 14, 2005, once more.
The case, which WO’s doctors Gerald Burgess and Bhanu Chadalavada dissect in a study published in the journal “Neurocase,” is indeed a medical mystery."
A baffling medical puzzle: How a man’s trip to the dentist cost him the ability to form new memories - The Washington Post
