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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

26 posted on 12/16/2008 2:18:37 PM PST by HungarianGypsy
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