i always worry that i'm gonna do that - they send the bills so damn early and we wait till the bitter end to pay them - makes me long for the days of a mortgage and an escrow account! peace and luv, Al

re previous post:

I know I'm late but I did read it soon after it was posted, I was just unavailable (mind wise) to comment. I would not describe these as memory losses but rather as bouts of absent-mindedness. I have similar "problems" and been having them for as long as I can remember. So if it is Alzheimer's then I'm certainly a long-lasting record carrier. If I put together all the gloves I've left in buses and elsewhere, I could circle the planet. I only have one med to take (to curtail high blood pressure) and I often forget. Worse sometimes I take it and half an hour later do not remember if I have taken it or not. So I bought one of those little seven-day med dispensers. Once I take it, I leave the cover open and at the end of the week I fill all the little boxes again and close the covers. Even then, it still happens that I notice a conspicuously closed litte box and it's 4 PM...or later.

I've noticed with time some contributing factors which make things worse. When I was in my twenties, I used to drink a six-pack of beer a day because there was nothing else to do in the small town nowhere where I lived at the time. I was a teacher in high school and I often had to ask the students which day of the week we were. Also another factor is higher than usual stress and/or preoccupations, or same for long periods. These are winners, for me anyways. Goofy acts guaranteed. Ten meds a day seems an awful lot to me. I don't mean you don't need them, just that all that chemical interacting is bound to have mid or long term effects on the functioning of the mind (the synapses and those other connections). As for getting lost in familiar places, this happens to me also. I'm easily disoriented. It takes only one little landmark I'm used to being changed and bingo I'm lost. It happened just yesterday while coming back from my brother's hospital. It was the first time I was coming back from there at night and I just took the exit going west instead of the one going east. (I'll spare you the accounts of my travels by car in Europe). It will often happen also if my attention is caught (distracted) by something else, like a radio program discussion I'm listening to for example. And did I mention all the times I was looking for my keys in the morning and found them still in the lock, outside? All this to say that before talking of Alzheimer's, there a whole world of possible causes out there to explore beforehand. Maybe you just had your load of problems to deal with as of late.

Finally I never read crap or stupid stuff coming from you. Why would you insinuate such a thing? I take it was a litterary form of cathartic self-derision!

re this here post:

I'm very sorry but I can do nothing to alleviate your 'suffering'. I listened to the song (which I had never heard before) and unfortunately for you it left no trace whatsoever in my mind. Chances it gets stuck in my head are not next to nil, they "are" nil. Cultural differences I guess. It's pretty LawrenceWelky isn't it?

I wish you a very Merry Christmas. I don't know what you have planned for tonight but if circumstances make it you would happen to be alone, just remember it will only seem to be that way because I for one will be having you in my thoughts. And all those people for whom you prepare those nice hand-crafted Christmas cards will certainly have you in their hearts also. And if you do pass this night with someone, well the Flippier the Merrier (I just invented this )

Cheers! :sunny:

Today, we celebrate the birth of a child, a small, innocent baby boy who would try to teach us to love. This gift is, without a doubt, the greatest mankind has ever received. It is my hope for you that your heart, life and home will be filled with the love this Child taught us to share,
You have shared your time and love with me, and that has been a gift to me – a gift wrapped in the love of this Child – and a gift I am humbled to receive.
May you be wrapped in the warm embrace of God’s love each and every day of your life. Al