Memory Methods on the Monday NO PO Open Thread

[Z is for Zangie]

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I have some short-term memory loss, mostly things like walking in a room and not remembering why I am in there, or going into the kitchen and not getting what I actually went in there for. My biggest peeve is words I have known how to spell my whole life and then suddenly forget how to spell them. The thing with most of those things is I eventually remember, I just can't retrieve it right when I want it. this goes for movie titles and actor names etc also.

I use more things now to remember things I need to remember, like work stuff, or chores I need to do or grocery lists, or things I need to do online etc...sometimes though it might be different now that I am back to work, I can't remember what day it is. I use a lot of sticky notes, I think you retain things better, at least I do, when you write them out. I will also still make up acronyms. I also make lists, lots of lists. And sometimes I stick them on my laptop and still forget...lol..guess I get used to it being there and don't think to look at it. Do you have memory issues, how do you help yourself remember?

[Tarmaque]

I have a heck of a time with my Mom and her memory. She's pretty good about things from a long time ago, but not so good about what happened yesterday. It's worse when she's tired too.

Just yesterday I went to see her and she didn't have one of her waterproof pads on her chair (she was sitting in her wheelchair.) I asked her where they were (she's got seven of them, one for every day.) She said she didn't know, and that she couldn't find them. It took me less than 5 seconds to find them in her closet, where she had to have put them. The laundry girl doesn't usually put away her stuff. She also has a heck of a time finding her clothes. She never seems to put them away in the same drawer twice.

[Slip Shod]

Thanks, I've been meaning to pick up some ginkgo biloba, but haven't gotten around to it. 5 minutes ago I placed the order for some organic I've read a lot of good things about this stuff. Helps with the memory

[Senor Natural]

I don't remember. I'm not going to remember. No one is going to make me remember.

[Tarmaque]

Wut?

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[Z is for Zangie]

I don't remember. I'm not going to remember. No one is going to make me remember.

[Randi]

I make lists for the grocery store, then I walk off and forget them

[Slip Shod]

Ahh.. the grocery store,yep. Don't know what it is, but as soon as I walk the door of a grocery my mind goes totally blank - even though I practiced half a dozen times what I want to buy.

[Z is for Zangie]

I make lists for the grocery store, then I walk off and forget them

I have done that, I have also actually taken one and forgot to check it...lol