Woman, 34, woke up to find she couldn't remember the last ten years of her life

A woman who couldn't remember ten years of her life after falling into a coma has spoken of the moment she woke up - and saw her family had seemingly aged overnight.

Alisha Gerrard, 34, nearly died after she suffered complications from a medication she was prescribed for arthritis in February 2021. But when she woke up around a month later, she had forgotten a decade of her life - including her seven-year marriage to husband Philip, and the death of her nan.

Unable to ask questions due to a tracheostomy tube in her neck, Alisha said nobody knew she couldn't remember anything until the tube was removed. She then spent months coming to terms with rediscovering her own twenties, she told the Liverpool Echo.

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She said: "I couldn't speak or ask questions, so nobody knew that I didn't remember anything until they took the tube out. I remember my mum coming to see me at the hospital and saying 'your nan's been looking after you'. I thought she meant she had been visiting. It was only when she said she had been looking down on me that I realised she had died."

While coming to terms with her nan's death all over again, Alisha was further shocked to discover that she was married to a man she thought was just a good friend.

She said: "I don't remember my wedding day. When I came out of hospital I went to stay with my parents, because I felt familiar in their house. My first thought was that everyone looked so much older. There's 11 years between me and my brother, so I remembered him as being in high school, into football, and now he's got a girlfriend and a job and he drives. He's a grown man now.

"Because me and Phil were best friends anyway,