Kev
Senior Member
- Location
- Halifax, NS, Canada
Hi folks. I've come here to ask for some help, some input, some advice... any thoughts, stories, etc., would be welcome. Here is what brings this all on. In the last few days, something happened at work. I related the story to a very dear friend... and ... a short while later, she inquired about it. I couldn't recall whether it happened on Saturday, or Monday. And this conversation took place on Tuesday. OK, just a brain fart, right? However, as anyone who has read any of my posts will note, I frequently warn EVERYONE not to trust my memory. Hey, I'm 58 & 1/2 years old, maybe I'm just getting senile. But, in talking to this friend... she asked a question, and I started telling her about me and my sons moving from the outskirts where we originally lived to a place closer to the hub... it was on bus routes, my sons were starting to date, and the school in the new area was renowned. I'm talking a part of our history that involved a couple of years. And that is when it got very frightening for me. You see, until I was asked that question, I believe I had completely forgotten it all. Gone. Not that I couldn't remember it, but I wasn't aware I'd forgotten it. If I'd been asked that question a week or two ago, I don't know if I would have remembered it. OK? This is scaring the living bejeepers out of me. I've never been this age before... so it could be aging. It could be that I'm going senile (I'm not joking, I know 2 people with dementia/Alzheimers, and it isn't pretty). It could be the long term effect of my various meds over the years... or it could be from the disease itself... either a part of it, or just the trauma it puts you through makes everything in life surreal, dreamlike.
Anyway, kind people... I need your sage wisdom. I need a consensus. A poll. Is memory issues a part of this disease, its treatment, a side effect, or what?
Anyway, kind people... I need your sage wisdom. I need a consensus. A poll. Is memory issues a part of this disease, its treatment, a side effect, or what?