The caretaker of a school in Rome is now working with the help of doctors and psychologists to find his way around his environment again. He had to gradually get used to cell phones, the euro and many other things again.
D’Adamo was hit by a car in Rome in 2019 and lost consciousness. When he woke up in the hospital, he was convinced that he was in 1980, that he was 24 years old and still living with his parents, as he told the newspaper Il Messaggero. He recognized neither his wife nor his son. When he saw himself in the mirror for the first time – a man with white hair – he screamed, the Roman told the Rai television station.
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At the hospital, he also asked to inform his mother. But then a supposed stranger came into the room. “She called me Luciano. And I was wondering how she knew my name.” That was his wife.
Later, a 35-year-old man introduced himself – his son. D’Adamo remembers his thoughts at the time as follows: “How can a man who was born long before me be my son? And which woman? I wasn’t married, but I was engaged, and not to this woman who almost had to be 60, but with a 19-year-old girl.”
Since then, the Italian has tried 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”. “This must be an old friend, but I don’t know who he is. So out of politeness I’ll pretend to recognize him and return the greeting.”
What he remembers, however: a sign with a drawing of a stork and the name Matteo – his grandson, who was born in 2014.
