I remembered all three each time. The way to do it is to start repeating the three in one’s head and keep on with that repetition until the conversation that’s designed to divert you is over and the examiner asks you to repeat the three words. There is also the clock problem where the examiner asks the patient to draw a clock face with the time at 1110. The way to do that is to put in noon at the top and six at the bottom then fill in the three and the nine at the side. From there it becomes pretty easy to draw the hour hand and the minute hand. I am 81, and the mere fact that I am able to come up with this procedure for dealing with those questions does a pretty good job of saying that I’ve still got a lot of cognitive recognition, which is very clear Joe does not have.
But isn't the conversation to divert one of asking questions that you need to answer so that you can't just repeatedly make mental crib notes?