Aimee Rackham, with husband Nick who has to be reintroduced to their daughter Lilah every time he sees her.

A man with short term memory loss after being gravely injured in a road crash has to be reintroduced to his daughter every day.

In a situation with similarities to the Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore film 50 First Dates, Neil Rackham keeps forgetting his four-year-old daughter Lilah.

He and wife Aimee were living in the US state of Georgia in 2010, when Nick was run over by an 18-wheeler truck while riding his bicycle.

Doctors told Aimee, 32, the best thing for Nick would be if he didn't survive the first night in hospital but he pulled through.

Before the crash the couple had been trying for a baby, and a few months later Aimee discovered she was pregnant, MailOnline reported.

As a result of the crash Nick is unable to make day-to-day memories, and has to be reintroduced to Lilah every time he sees her.

"He knows Lilah is our daughter but seeing her is disconcerting for him," Aimee said.

"He knows he has a child but can't understand how this little girl who is almost five could be his daughter, because he doesn't have four-and-a-half years of memories to back that up," she said.

"Nick has no day to day memories at all and everything we do together is gone by the next morning.

"But we are still married for a reason and we are trying to break new ground.

"Nick can very slowly build some memories and now we have been back in Massachusetts for five years he just about remembers we live here."

Nick lives at an inpatient facility during the week, then stays with Aimee and Lilah on weekends. Aimee is in the process of buying a house so the family can be together.

To make some money while she cared for Nick, and to help women who couldn't have babies, Aimee became a surrogate mother to twins in 2013 and to another baby in 2014.







