Remembering things

I used to be great with names now I sometimes struggle with them and the more I try to remember the worse the block becomes. Sometimes I get a complete brain freeze when I'm trying to think of the words I want to use, it's really quite worrying. At what point I wonder, is just a bad memory really the onset of dementia

I forget all sorts of things. My friend was talking about her wedding 40 years ago. Apparently I was there but can't recall it at all. Similarly very few memories of my children when they were young. I put it down to the fact that I have done so much over the years that I can't possibly remember it all. My best friend, however, remembers everything I tell her whereas I forget things people tell me. So don't worry. You're not alone.

I find my memory improves when my inflammation is low.

If I eat carbs and sugar I can’t remember things.

Eating a low carb ketogenic diet has me remembering poems I learned in school!

My sister recalls all sorts of memories from childhood. I don’t remember all the incidents. The ones I do remember are accurately told by her, so I would think the rest are right, even if I have forgotten them.

Over 30 years ago when my sister was fatally injured in a road accident at the end of March. I was coninved that the last time I had seen her was the previous Christmas. We had been in touch by phone, but not met up since then. We had been in contact quite a bit because we had been organising weekend visits to a disabled aunt whose husband was in hospitaal

At the time DH was working in Japan and, in a time before email, I had been writing him letters that went out with his company's courier. About 10 years after my DS's death, I was tidying a drawer when I found all the letters I had written, which had been kept for some reason.

Re reading them I came across a reference to my sister coming down to my aunt's at the same time as I was there. It was brief overnight visit on her journey somewhere else. This was only 2 weeks before her death, yet the memory disappeared almost instantly, leaving me convinced i hadn't seen her since Christmas.

Since then I have been able to retrieve the odd partial memory of the event. - of her arriving quite late, of us standing in the bedroom we shared, talking, of the weather being very cold, but little else.