Posted by IsoM on March 24, 2002, at 15:41:48
In reply to Re: Memory Loss » IsoM, posted by beardedlady on March 24, 2002, at 14:54:00
Thanks Beire-dei. I've never drank diet pop - ewwwhh! what a taste. Aspertame tastes like licking an old tarnished silver spoon. I can taste it in anything, no matter how well masked.
I've actually used the trick you write about. And it does work wonders, but even things that seem to matter to me, I forget.
Just a small unimportant example here.
I missed a show I love called Farscape (the BEST sci-fi series ever, ever made!!! Can you guess I'm enthusiastic about it?). There was only 10 minutes left of the show so I said aloud to myself & my son, "guess I'll check which episode I missed." And when I watched a couple of minutes said "arrgg! It's one I haven't seen before."My son turned & looked & said "you've seen it." Of course, I hadn't seen it! I'd remember - I adore that show! And I told him so. But he said, "sure you have", "it's the one where that alien girl is actually carnivorous & spikes come out of here head." I watched more & then realised I had seen it. But the part that I'd first seen, I still don't recall.
That's what so discouraging - I forget something I even enjoyed & gave my full attention. The fact it's just a show is irrelevant. There's too many other things like that, too, that are relevant. I know it's not at all like Alzheimer's 'cause my son has been concerned about my memory & asked me to check it out. Not even remotely close & no relatives have ever had it.
What gives with me? I don't know how to overcome this memory thing. And if anything, it's getting worse. The effort to pay close attention to what others say & what I do is taxing at times. When I was younger, I moved to Quebec for a while. I had to really concentrate on what was being said in French as mine was lousy. The sheer effort of concentration exhausted me at the end of a day & it was so nice just to speak & listen in English again. That's what it feels like to me when I concentrate so hard on what goes around me.
I still do remember lots of things, but not necessarily the things I want to??!!
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