Lost Patients is about serious mental illness.

This episode mentions rape and suicide and includes descriptions of surgical procedures,

so it might be disturbing for some listeners.

One day, three generations of women rode through Seattle in a car,

trying to help one of them remember.

Carrie Davidson was in the backseat.

Carrie's mom was driving.

And in the front passenger seat was Carrie's grandmother.

My grandma has dementia.

She just turned 95.

We had taken her out, driving her around Seattle, like to the places where she used to live, just trying to jog her memory and get her talking.

Something came up about my grandpa, and I said,

gosh, I wonder what his mother's name was.

And she pipes up in the front seat, she sits up, she goes,

Lily and Massey.

And I was like, okay, I had never heard

that name before. Lillian Massey, Carrie's great grandmother. With that recovered memory,

suddenly a fourth generation of Carrie's family appeared in that car. For Carrie, it was a

revelation. Carrie knew her grandfather had been adopted,

but it was so long ago, in 1925, she didn't think she'd ever know who his birth mother was.

He struggled with alcoholism when he was alive. His kids struggled too in different ways,

as if an unhealed wound was passed from one generation to the next.

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