Drabble by Kevin Fagan for January 22, 2023

Don’t mind him

Welcome to the club

Walked into the kitchen, stood wondering why I was there, suddenly the microwave beeped, oh yeah, reheating coffee.

I’ve started taking Neuriva and have noticed that when I start wondering why I’m in that room, it comes to me more quickly.

That’s my everyday…

When that happens I figure while I’m up I might as well make a snack. No sense wasting a trip somewhere, just take a detour to the kitchen.

Senior tip: Always walk into a room backwards, you’ll remember more than you forget. Doorways only wipe memory when you walk through frontwards.

I had a habit of setting my timer a lot but when it goes off I forgot why I set it. That’s why I’ve started setting reminders instead

duh, to play games, what else do you use it for?

I wish my eReader had some kind of “find” feature, I’ve “lost” it several times.

Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.

My most reliable “trick” to jog my memory is to put something related to what I want to remember, in a spot where I’ll see it, but not its “rightful” spot. Of course, this is only for those of us who are “anal”… ☺

Tie a string to your finger to remember. When you see your finger turning blue, you’ll remember to take your blood flow medication.

You reached that phase in life a little early, Ralph.

A-Men

“Old Farts Disease”

The struggle is real.

It’s been scientifically proven going through a door makes you forget: New research from University of Notre Dame suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses. “Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,” Radvansky explains.

Thought just came out..why ‘Open-Area’ interiors are the current thing, less doorways for retention reset.

Describes my entire life here.

Welcome to my world

My mom is 94 and of pretty good mind for her age. She tells me that she forgets things.

I am 69. I tell mom that I forget things too. Generally we are upstairs in our home office before dinner. I ask husband what to make for dinner. I used to write down what he said as he would forget and tell me that forgot or changed it, so I had the note to show him. Now I need for me as I forget by the time I walk downstairs.

I have 2 sets of dark blue, a set of yellow and a set of light blue hand towels in upstairs bathroom. I put a dark blue set on Mondays and change it out for one of the other two sets on Thursdays. I also put a dark blue small bath towel on top of the cart husband made us to use in the bathroom as there is no counter in same (we can push it out into the hall so there is enough room to get ready for/from taking a shower) I put a dark blue towel on it on Mondays and a light blue towel on it on Thursdays. Why such a set color assortment? I can tell by looking at the colors whether or not I have changed the towels when I should. In the downstairs bathroom I have 2 sets of green hand towels with a set of pink and a set of ivory for the same reason.

Then again, my memory started going bad when I found out by accident that I have forgotten about having “a medical procedure” done in the late 1980s (I do remember a broken collar bone when I was 3, a broken toe and, separately, a torn ankle as a teen.) Husband happened to mention something about it and my sister and her husband confirmed it – though none of them can remember what exactly it was (or they do remember and are not telling me – talk about getting paranoid). But since this occurred I am constantly forgetting current things and no longer trust my memory about things in the past.