Rhea would have spent her whole life doing exactly what she did on a normal Tuesday. The problem was, she did not remember her normal Tuesday. In fact, the last Tuesday she remembered, Rhea was at her favorite college pizzeria playing a decent game of beer pong. That was the last Tuesday Rhea remembered. That Tuesday happened ten years ago. The Tuesday which Rhea did not remember happened about a month ago, when a slightly intoxicated driver was busy texting his girlfriend when he slammed his Tacoma into Rhea's Lexus, causing Rhea's Lexus to hit the corner of a UPS truck that was making a left turn on the adjacent lane. The slightly intoxicated driver was not badly hurt, just some whiplash and a broken arm - the arm that he was using to hold his phone while texting. The UPS truck driver was badly traumatized since this was his first day on the job, luckily he did not sustain any injury due to the crash. It was Rhea who felt the worst pain.
The doctors in the hospital and forensic examiners on the scene could not determine whether Rhea's head was injured as a result of the crash, or due to the airbags which exploded on her face moments later. Either way, Rhea suffered severe brain injury. They say that different parts of the brain use memory in different ways. Some memories come from learned behavior, while others come from distinct stimuli embedded through our daily experiences from birth onward. After the crash and subsequent coma, Rhea lost memories worth ten years. She did not remember how she met her husband, when she had her daughter, or even how she landed her mid-career level job at a Fortune 500 company. Rhea simply remembered drinking too much beer on a Tuesday and waking up in a hospital attached to an IV drip on a Wednesday.
