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You need to keep maps of everywhere you go. Your home, stores, mall, city, etc.

With each map has a list of everything you need, and where to find it.

IE:

Map: *House* Bedroom: Clothes, watches, etc Kitchen: Food, beer, medicine, etc..
 
You can use it as an excuse to why you forgot your husband's birthday and he'll believe you!
 
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Ugh. For me its info. Names, dates, times.

It seems to be taking a lot longer to get back to 'normal ' now.
 
Numbers are hard for me. I easily mix them up. Today I drew up one year lease with the date set to terminate 1/31/15. That wouldn't have been even one month. Thankfully I caught it in time but one of these days I won't.

I'm always afraid I will send a maintenance tech into the wrong apartment. He is a new guy so he doesn't know the residents like my old maintenance tech. The other day I showed a vacant apartment but before that I almost took her into an occupied apartment.
 
Interesting. For me numbers come easily and I can still do a sudoku puzzle in nothing flat. But names are hard. I have to get introduced to someones several times before it sticks.
Back when I was teaching I could memorize a whole classroom full of students' names easily.
 
Names are easy nd long term memory for stupid facts are really good but short term memory not so good. I also have almost no ability to read anything long such as a book.

This morning I was fixing a cup of instant coffee and was going to add my milk to it. I poured the milk in the container of instant coffee. So much for that $11.00 jar of coffee.
 
One time, I went to school (college) and didn't realize until I was on my way to class that I had forgotten my backpack at home
 
When you go shopping and remember to take your list but still forget to by half the stuff on it!

I made a sandwich this afternoon and couldn't figure out why it didn't taste right. When I got to the very last bite that's when I realized I'd forgotten to put mayo on it - lol
 
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these are great. I usually forget how to spell after a bunch of seizures that is fun. it is a challenge to look up the word if you can't spell it. it is funny when it is easy words like
easy.
knew I was having a lot of seizures when the pharmacist asked me my name and I forgot it. my name is Veronique not an easy name to forget. esp by me!
love looking at these posts thanks guys.

I started taking pictures of people on my smart phone. I will meet them again and not remember them. easier if I take pictures and put info

good thing with memory loss you can forget fights you had with people at work or they don't matter any more!
 
AlohaBird said:
Interesting. For me numbers come easily and I can still do a sudoku puzzle in nothing flat. But names are hard. I have to get introduced to someones several times before it sticks.
Back when I was teaching I could memorize a whole classroom full of students' names easily.
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it is funny what things I can remember and other things my friend will talk about and I will have a blank look on my face. the computer files of my memory have been deleted!

good question is what things are normal memory loss from age and from seizures
 
msvb19 said:
I started taking pictures of people on my smart phone. I will meet them again and not remember them. easier if I take pictures and put info
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I had a seizure recently and when I started coming out of it my husband started asking me the 'seizure questions' like - what's my name, where am I and so on.

I don't remember doing this so I must have still been having the seizure but when my husband asked me what his name was I couldn't think of it so I guess I started looking on my cell phone to see if I could find a picture of him with his name on it!
 
When I go into the kitchen to get meds for me and Alex ,And I forget why I WENT in there in the first place.
 
Forget what you ate for dinner, and you just ate it about a half-hour ago.

You go shopping with a list, and forget to look at it while you are shopping.

You constantly set reminder alarms for your alarms.
 
I forget names and now I am forgetting faces.

A few years ago, our ? flooded and I did not remember it. My husband was schocked when he mentioned it and I did not remember it.

Glad to be back everyone.
 
OK, I gotta reply to this one as I identify so much with what y'all are saying. I can Never remember where I set my cell phone down. I miss calls all the time because of that.

I get in the shower and start with my face, then arms, and get down a little bit then I can never remember, did I do the underarms...so I do them again...and I think I do that over and over till I finally finish and get out. It's always my underarms that stump me.

Last week I was mopping whole floor in house...could not remember where I'd been last. House is big enough that it would dry, then I'd go back to bucket and couldn't remember where I was or what hallway I'd done.

And the elusive word..always a noun...never a verb... oh, and forget remembering a person's name, ain't gonna happen. Isn't life grand!
 
I know nothing any more.;lol I have got to help my son graduate from high school next year.My mom is try to help me . Make it a true bucket list! write a list and as you go wipe off. Maybe it will work. I just have my family come over and help. love teresa
 
Hi, I helped my children graduate from High School. They all graduated and they all had health challenges.

What I did was when they got home from school, I spent 4 hours at home teaching them. It worked.
 
i actually just dont bother asking peoples names anymore, I know it is rude, but I also know I am not going to remember it unless I form an emotional bond with them of some sort.
 
It's bad when I lost $97.00. Maybe even worse when my husband found it in a Styrofoam cooler in the dining room and I have no idea how it happened.
 
There is so much here that I have done and its good to see and realise I am not on my own. No idea how many times I thought I was going crazy.
 
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