How's your memory?

Three months ago, I would have said my memory was as good as it has ever been. Meaning that most of the time it works fine, but if I am doing too many things at once, I mislay things.

I never worry about this, as I have done this all my adult life.

Since DH was diagnosed with cancer three months ago, my memory is shot to pieces. I attribute this to stress and hope it will become easier to remember things again soon, when I have suceeded in accepting as far as possible the current situation.

Yesterday, I mislaid my Visa card three times and today once, so I have promised myself to pay more attention to where I actually put it after use!

nouns! they are the very devil

Funnily enough, I went to have memory screening a couple of weeks ago!

I have a good long term memory, but since my daughter died I have been having more and more memory lapses and trying to find the right words. Eg. My carer came and remarked on how nice the garden looked and I said "It would look much nicer if it wasn't for the wardrobe"! The word I wanted was 'wheelbarrow'! Then the evening before the screening, I was on the phone to my mum - we were discussing the fact that she hadn't been contacted by the local Link Scheme about her lift to the doctors the following day. We then tested her phone answering machine, which didn't work, so I said I would call them and try and find out what was happening, and she went off to watch some programme on the tv. I called them, they had left a message she hadn't received, so I thought, I would call her back after the programme ended. Next thing I knew the following morning she rang and said that it didn't look like she had got a lift - I forgot to call her back! I am always doing this now, and cannot remember taking my tablets for example, hence the screening.

As I expected, I went through the questions etc like a dose of salts, no issues at all, yet I still can't remember stuff! I can still even remember the name and address she asked me to memorise! Saw GP last Friday and he thinks it's the depression and anxiety that is taking it's toll, and he said 'it's not dementia' which I suppose was at the back of my mind, so at least that is one thing!

It’s awfully scary. Sometimes my family think I do it on purpose to evade a situation. My diary is jam packed with everything and anything.

I can remember what happened 10 years and more ago, just not where I usually keep simple everyday things in the kitchen that are used frequently.

I can spell, it's the computer

4allweknow

There is a plant in my garden no matter how many times I have tried to remember I have to go online to find the name. Even now I can't recall. I know it begins with G, is very common, but nope, complete blank. I call it stubborn memory loss.

Geum?

I normally forget that one
But intemembered it this time 😁

Like the apostrophe in ‘can’t’.

My friend calls it joining the ‘Craft Club’.

Cant remember a f*#king thing!

Geranium?

There is a plant in my garden no matter how many times I have tried to remember I have to go online to find the name. Even now I can't recall. I know it begins with G, is very common, but nope, complete blank. I call it stubborn memory loss.

kircubbin2000

I did try that but I was convinced her name began with S but I was wrong!

I was waiting for this comment!
The times I have forgotten a name, even my DD has, and we've been convinced it started with a particular letter and it didn't!!
I have always had a bad memory, so I'm not sure I, or anyone close to me, would realise if my memory started waning off!

Ailidh

I keep for the word "reflexology". I don't know why. I know what it is, I enjoy receiving it but sometimes in conversation I have to resort to "that foot massage thing". Odd.

Haha! I keep FORGETTING!! That was a typo, not memory loss!

www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/symptoms-and-diagnosis/how-dementia-progresses/is-it-getting-older-or-dementia

This is a link to deciding whether your memory problems are just age related or not.

I keep for the word "reflexology". I don't know why. I know what it is, I enjoy receiving it but sometimes in conversation I have to resort to "that foot massage thing". Odd.

I did a very stupid thing a few days ago. I nearly sent 1000 euro to the wrong recipient but fortunately the system flagged it up as an error. Ive been transferring money abroad with that service for about 10 years but I still made a silly mistake. Once sent it is not always possible to get the money back if you transfer it to the wrong recipient,

This thread is a huge relief to me! Thanks everyone.

And the one that grows feathery seeds .....

nanna8

We have this awful weed which I have a mental block about. Just had to ask husband its name yet again though I have dealt with it for years and years-oxalis. Every day I pull some of it out and every time it rains - there it is in full strength again, flowering as well. Hate the rotten thing. Whatever I do, I forget it’s name.

I've been pulling oxalis out of pots this morning but really, it needs to be dug out because it grows from little bulbs under the surface.

There are worse weeds in my garden! Bindweed (what's it's proper name again?)

We have this awful weed which I have a mental block about. Just had to ask husband its name yet again though I have dealt with it for years and years-oxalis. Every day I pull some of it out and every time it rains - there it is in full strength again, flowering as well. Hate the rotten thing. Whatever I do, I forget it’s name.

I also forgot my pin number when Iwas shopping. It's a number I use in most of my passwords!
I had the numbers right but in the wrong order. Luckily I had enough cash.

With me it’s often the ‘delayed-action’ thing. Something I know I know (e.g. a word I need for a crossword) will come to me many hours later.

Sometimes there’s a mental block on something. For quite a while I had trouble ever recalling the name of a very common shrub in the garden - mahonia.
Eventually the ‘block’ disappeared, I have no idea why it either came or went.

When I'm walking down the road /on the bus /shopping someone will ask , hello , how are you ?

In between visiting a friend and meeting up with another on Friday a guy came into my friend's shop and seemed to know me .
I have absolutely no recollection of meeting him before .

Walking down to meet the other friend I met three people who all greeted me as an old friend .
Luckily , I remembered their names .
The only time , I've been thoroughly embarrassed is when my companion has said , aren't you going to introduce me to your friend ?!

Nanna8 that’s what I cling on to I still do lots of puzzle games word and numbers and still good at them
(I still can’t remember the old boyfriends surname though)

My memory is dreadful and getting worse by the week so I do a lot of word games and read a lot to keep what remains. Someone told me that if you are worried you might have Alzheimers, you haven’t got it. I cling to that thought !