God bless.
Yup.
I have developed mild cognitive impairment. Same results as this. Disheartening…
Thanks much for the humor, Sod!! d:^)
I think your hose is still running water.
It’s kind of pleasant, sometimes. Like a distracted dance.
I’m 83. In my early sixties I felt the beginnings of what you describe beginning to squiggle up in my being. Sensing where it might lead to, whenever I sensed it I immediately headed for my recliner, and still do. I have achieved complete victory over all that blundering around. Blessings.
Cheer up, it could be worse. You could be President and not even know the difference between your wife and your sister.
I just call it “multi-tasking”.
First, have a fixed place for some things. For example, always leave your keys in the same place. ALWAY, not sometimes.
When you put something on your desk or counter that you'll need later, say out loud, "I'm putting my reading glasses on the kitchen counter." Repeat if necessary...several times.
It doesn't always work, but it sure does help.
And get rid of all clutter. Clutter is the enemy.
In fact, it's clutter in the brain that caused this problem to begin with.
I call it my Sometimer’s
My wife and I got the latest/local Covid 19 variant from attending a local family Thanksgiving dinner.
We are in our 80’s, married for 62 years and our memories weren’t that great before the Covid Variant visited us.
Since then, it has even been worse.
I have in self defense?/retaliation, started her writing in her brown binder, what she asked me to do and the time.
She was an RN most of her adult life and worked with very forgetful Doctors. So she jotted down the date, and time if and when the Docs asked her to do something. She used a mini ring shorthand binder that fit perfectly into her lab coat pocket. Now, she keeps an 8.5 X 11 inch brown binder, kept on the table by her chair.
Often, now, she is amazed that something in her handwriting is or is not in her log. She no longer argues that she didn’t ask me or tell me what to do. Also, I now, have my own spiral notebook.
Before getting our Thanksgiving gift of the latest Covid Variant, she seldom failed to jot down whatever she asked me to do. Now, it is a rare day that she jotted down 40/50% of what she claimed to ask me to do. Now, she often forgets to jot down what/when she asked me to do.
As noted above: Now, I keep a little spiral note pad that fits into my front shirt pocket or on my laptop desk. I try to jot down, the time/date when asked to do something. Also, I note if I’m not in my Lazy Boy or in another room, or often entered into notes on my Chromebook, are comments. Like if I’m headed out a door to do something outside when she says, “While you are up ~~~~~~!”
I know that I am absent minded and forget things. The joke in our family is my wife has a built in Kray computer recording everything she has ever said or had been told before the latest Covid Variant. Now, she is a normal and absent minded 82 year old.
The cure...
More wine...earlier in the day.
At my age, I find myself thinking more about the hereafter. I go into a room and mutter, “Now what did I come in here after?”