Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first, I was seeing double and vomiting, but then I just couldn't remember things...like, I'd be on my way to class, and forget where I was going," Mayer says of the weeks of confusion after her injury...
...something was wrong, and Mayer returned home without taking her final exams. Diagnosed with indeterminable short-term memory loss, Mayer decided to work at home (not an easy task, she says, considering that no one wanted to hire someone with a head injury) for a semester and then joined City Year to volunteer for 10 months before returning to college...
...That was when the doubts came," Mayer says of returning to school after numerous memory tests left her eligible for class, but not the team...
...really can't take more than one ice cream bash," jokes Mayer, recalling the sense of loss she felt watching fellow students take the field during her first year back on campus...
...Instead, Mayer joined University Lutheran Church (UNILU) soup kitchen, eventually becoming administrative director and working at the Saint James soup kitchen the following summer...