To: who_would_fardels_bear
Dimentia is strange; they're alert one time and forgetful the next. There is
very seldom any short term memory. They're sharp one minute, confused the next.
We just had a new furnace and air conditioner installed. Dad would ask repeatedly why the workmen were there, sometimes two minutes after asking it before.
But, his long term memory works like a librarian's.
People with this problem should not drive a car/truck/train, etc.. They will forget what they are doing while on the freeway. Not good.
13 posted on
12/16/2008 2:01:41 PM PST by
Loud Mime
("Only the dead have seen the end of war" Plato)
To: Loud Mime
“They will forget what they are doing while on the freeway.”
Not much different from somebody with a cell phone.
My mom is 90 and so far she’s still pretty sharp.
14 posted on
12/16/2008 2:04:48 PM PST by
PLMerite
("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
To: Loud Mime
"People with this problem should not drive a car/truck/train, etc" Mr. Falk pulled up to the book signing in a rather nice sports car.
I guess he'll have to sell that.
21 posted on
12/16/2008 2:13:21 PM PST by
who_would_fardels_bear
(The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
To: Loud Mime
They will forget what they are doing while on the freeway. I sometimes forget what I am doing on the freeway, too. Seriously. It scared me for a while there and I'm too young for Alzheimer's. I'd forget exactly where I was on my way to.
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