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Dementia pugilistica.
Some years before Ingemar Johansson got struck with it, he and his fiancé Edna Alsterlund were visiting New York. While there, they wanted to meet their very good friends Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Patterson, and phoned them up to invite them for dinner at a restaurant.
Floyd was answering and was very thrilled about the occasion. “Of course we come” he said.
But Pattersons never showed up at the restaurant, Edna got worried that something had happened to them and phoned them the next day. This time Mrs. Patterson answered, and she knew nothing about a dinner invitation: “Oh, you can't longer make an appointment with Floyd that way. Nowadays, he forgets everything.”
As told by Edna Alsterlund, who wrote a book of how it was to live with Ingemar while his mental health declined.
Dementia pugilistica.
Some years before Ingemar Johansson got struck with it, he and his fiancé Edna Alsterlund were visiting New York. While there, they wanted to meet their very good friends Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Patterson, and phoned them up to invite them for dinner at a restaurant.
Floyd was answering and was very thrilled about the occasion. “Of course we come” he said.
But Pattersons never showed up at the restaurant, Edna got worried that something had happened to them and phoned them the next day. This time Mrs. Patterson answered, and she knew nothing about a dinner invitation: “Oh, you can't longer make an appointment with Floyd that way. Nowadays, he forgets everything.”
As told by Edna Alsterlund, who wrote a book of how it was to live with Ingemar while his mental health declined.
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