The condition can be temporary or permanent. dianna couldn t remember the attack or anything that happened immediately preceding the attack. the doctors had warned us, don t tell her. don t fill in those gaps. she s got to have the process of recovering this memory on her own. if you fill it in, then that s going to be her memory. after weeks in the hospital and still with great difficulty speaking, dianna was allowed to return home with her husband, kevin. but three months after the assault, something happened. as dianna and her mother were in the waiting room of a doctor s office, a series of pictures in a baby magazine triggered something she had forgotten. frantically she pointed to her stomach, apparently to indicate her pregnancy, and then she pointed to her wedding ring.