'Who are you?': how a sister helped her twin recover from a brain injury

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Identical twins Sarah and Abi Brooker, 38, were in a car accident on New Year’s Eve 2002, leaving Sarah, then a neuroscience student, with memory loss. She has since rebuilt her life and calls her sister her “superhero”

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The day of the accident was our dad’s birthday. We’d just been in the CBD to see him for lunch. We were driving back to Clayton in Melbourne’s south-east, and on the last street away from home there was a right-hand bend. As we were going around it, Sarah had a stroke. The car skidded in oil and hit a street pole.Sarah’s head hit the pole, which cracked her skull – and relieved the stroke. Greer hit her head on the windshield wiper and had a bad neck for ages afterwards.

I knew immediately who it was and I burst into tears. That, to me, was when I had full communication back with Sarah. I wasn’t protective of Sarah before; if anything, she was protective of me. Now I’m fiercely protective of her in every way. I am so proud of her regaining her life.I was driving Abi and Greer back to our house. It was the first rain after a very hot season. As we came around the corner, my car skidded. At that exact point in time I also had a stroke and we collided with a pole.

At the hospital I was in rehab for a couple of months, then continued at home as an out-patient and did my honours in neuroscience. I graduated and decided I had to get away from Melbourne, so I moved to Adelaide. It was there, at a dinner party in 2006, that I met Alan, now my husband. Alan took on the task of helping me settle into Adelaide and building a new life.I continued studying; Abi and I were doing our PhDs at the same time. I needed her every step of the way.

 

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