iPod aids amnesiac

So you think your smartphone’s your lifeline, that you couldn’t do without it?

Try talking to David Dorey.

From the minute he wakes up until the second he closes his eyes at night, his hand-held device is at his side; he doesn’t know where he’d be without it. Literally.

I wouldn’t know where to go or what to do. It would feel like I was … the Markham resident pauses, searching for the right word, floating.

That’s because Mr Dorey has amnesia. Seven years ago, he had a brain aneurysm and can remember some things, but can’t retrieve new memories — via redwolf.newsvine.com