One sunny Saturday morning, Sheldon was in the living room doing his physics homework next to his mother, Mary Cooper, while Missy was playing outside with Georgie. Missy and Georgie were being very loud outside, so Sheldon was getting very distracted. After a long time of not being able to get his work done with the noise, he went outside to tell them to be quiet. He walked outside and began to go on a long tangent about how they are being to disruptive and how they should be doing something more productive with their time. As he is talking angrily, he doesn't notice the rake on the floor right in front of him. Therefore, he trips on the rake and it hit him in the face, causing him to fall in the street and bang his head very hard. Georgie ran in to tell Mary what had happened, and she quickly ran outside to check on him. He was knocked unconscious, so he was not being responsive. She asked George, who was in his bedroom, to take care of Missy and Georgie as she rushed Sheldon to the hospital. The hospital took Sheldon in to look at him and see what the incident had caused and to see what would happen to him. While Mary had some time alone in the hospital, Connie, her mother, called her from the bowling alley where she enjoyed hanging out with her friends. Mary answered and told her what had happened. Connie told Mary that she was on her way and she came to the hospital as soon as she was able to. They waited for what felt like an eternity waiting for Sheldon. Then, they were finally finished with Sheldon and told his mother and grandmother that Sheldon was ok and that they could come inside to wait for him to wake up. They were thrilled that Sheldon was ok and safe, and went to wait. After a little while, he started to flutter his eyes open and move around a little bit. Mary leaped out of her seat to stand next to Sheldon. He woke up and regained consciousness. Without letting him speak, Mary immediately explained to Sheldon what had happened to him. She gave him a big hug and told him how scared they all were when this had happened. While Mary was doing this, Sheldon was looking around the room, very confused. When his mother was finished speaking, he turned to her and said, "Who are you?" He said this sounding very confused and scared, which worried Mary and Connie. Then the doctor came in the room to see how he was doing now that he was awake. He noticed Sheldon looked confused. Mary told him that he doesn't remember who she was. She stepped back as the doctor asked him a few questions to try to see what he remembers. He came to the conclusion that he was going to be ok, but it seemed like he had lost his memory. He didn't know if this would be temporary loss of memory or permanent, but that he was okay to go home but they should come back if anything bad happened. Mary worriedly took him home and Connie drove back to her house. Normally Sheldon is very talkative whenever he is driving anywhere, and talks about his interests such as physics, quantum mechanics, and Albert Einstein. But now he was being very quiet and reserved. When they got home, Mary got Sheldon into bed and told him to relax for a little while. Sheldon felt very disoriented, and didn't even remember where his room was when he came into the house. She walked out of his room and went to the living room to talk to George. She told him what the doctor said, and that he was going to be okay but that she was very worried about his memory loss. She was scared that this was going to be a permanent thing, and that he would never remember who any of his family was. George gave her a hug and comforted her. Sheldon ended up sleeping through what was left of the day. The next morning, everyone got up and went to church, as they do every Sunday morning. Mary had to get Sheldon up and remind him about church. When they got to church, pastor Rob began talking. Sheldon stayed quiet, which is very unusual for him to do. Pastor Rob then asked a question about the Bible, which Sheldon usually knows all of the answers too. He called on him to answer the question, and Sheldon just looked around the room with everyone looking at him and said he doesn't know the answer. This was surprising to everyone in the room, because everyone in the town knew about how smart of a kid Sheldon was, and that he never says I don't know to a question asked. When the family got home, George said to Mary that it seems like Sheldon has forgotten at least some of the facts he has known before, and maybe he isn't a genius kid anymore. They went to talk to him and ask him questions that most kids his age wouldn't know, but things that they knew he was interested in. Sheldon failed to answer all of the questions they asked about things that he typically could talk forever about. This got them very worried, and they realized Sheldon wasn't a genius kid anymore. He was now going to be just a regular kid. They didn't know what to think of this, and left the room. The next morning, George had to go to work and decided to take Sheldon along with him to stay by his side. He watched as his dad coached the high school football team. Sheldon was fascinated by watching them play, and told his dad he wanted to try. George was hesitant, but let him play. Sheldon was doing surprisingly well. He managed to score a touch down against the other players who were much older than him. George was pleasantly shocked and let him keep playing. He was scoring a lot of points, which made the players on his team very happy. George asked Sheldon if he wanted to play on the team, because he was very good, and he accepted. This was very different from Sheldon's typical interests. Normally he hated sports and wanted nothing to do with them, and definitely wasn't good at them. But it seemed the loss of his memory made him forget his past interests and find the potential he had for football. George took him home and took him outside to throw the foot ball around. He was doing very well at it, which he normally couldn't throw the ball correctly or catch it at all. Georgie saw them outside and was very confused. He went out to talk to them and see what they were doing. George told him what happened when he was with him, and Georgie did not believe it. He took the ball from his dad and threw the ball at Sheldon, not even expecting him to catch it. To Georgie's surprise, he not only caught the ball, but he threw it back at him with perfect form. Georgie still didn't believe what he was saying, and started playing football with Sheldon. He couldn't believe how good Sheldon was at something he had never been good at or taken any sort of interest in. Sheldon joined the football team at his school and George, Sheldon, and Georgie played outside every day as practice. They began to form a new kind of bond and closeness that Sheldon never had with his dad or brother before. Sheldon never used to share any interests with them before, which made it difficult at times to talk to them, be with them, and form a close bond with them. But now, he had football that he shared with them as a common interest. Sheldon seemed like a completely different person now. His teachers in high school started noticing he couldn't keep up with the lessons and tests, which he normally excelled in. After they saw this, the principal called his parents in for a meeting, and they told the principal that he had memory loss and isn't as smart as he used to be anymore. They came to the decision that they should put him back into his old school, with Missy and other kids his age. This felt sad for his family because they felt like they were losing who their son used to be, but they knew that this is what they had to do. When Sheldon was put into school now with other kids his age, he was not only doing much better in school despite him still not remembering everything, but he was socializing with the other kids, which he used to hate doing and be terrible at. He was now able to bond with his brother and father, and with other kids and people.