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So this memory thing is really becoming an issue
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 498098" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>(((((hugs))))) I know how frustrating this can be. I have to be VERY careful with my medications because I tend to lose them. Or forget which dose I have taken and which I am supposed to take. I end up setting up a month worth and then losing a week (each week is a separate box). I have had to give them to husband and have him give me one each week or I lose them. Recently I found a box iwth several weeks worth of medications in it. I know I went for a few days at a time taking the bare mnimum I can take with-o having side effects because I couldn't find my medications for that week. I am super super careful with these because they are super strong pain medications and the doctor doesn't give you more if you run out or drop them in something. This is why I brought husband into it - I was losing them and freaking out.</p><p></p><p>My family says I have a "garbage can" memory because I remember all sorts of idiotic trivia like what I was wearing when i did a certain thing or an entire conversation verbatim, but now? I am forgetting imporant things and only remembering stupid trivia stuff. </p><p></p><p>I know exactly that rather freaked out look the docs get when you ask about it. Often they seem more upset than I do, or than my mom does. We both go through it.</p><p></p><p>is it like what they describe as "fibro fog" (google the term for some good examples) or is it more serious? When I was in high school my mom had a year when she could not remember ANYTHING. I had health problems and in the morning I couldn't walk to school. It was maybe ten blocks and in the afternoon wasn't a problem, but morning were awful and my legs sometimes just locked up and wouldn't bend with-o massage and medications. So my mom drove me to school. They changed the time school started about a month into the year. We started 25 min earlier and I was late every single morning because my mom just couldn't remember we had to leave earlier. I got a lot of grief from my teacher and the attendance officer until they talked iwth my mom and my doctor sent a note. The doctor said they could either give me home bound instruction for all my morning classes or they could just relax and ignore the tardies - he was happy to make iether one happen. They didn't like him but at the time if the doctor wrote out that a student needed homebound ed for the morning but reg ed the afternoon they couldn't do anyhting but provide it. They really didn't want to, lol. </p><p></p><p>There are things you can do. My mom's motto for coping with the world is "Physical solutions for physical problems." If you cannot reach, get a stool or get someone tall to do it. If you can't remember doing something, write it down. She is a genius at finding ways to solve problems and cope with challenges. </p><p></p><p>Can you get a little notebook and keep it with your charge/debit card? I know you have a checkbook, but that is big and bulky. Maybe just get a long thin piece of paper, like from a roll of register tape? and wrap that around your credit/debit card? Each time you use the card, write the item and amt down on the paper. Then wrap it around the card and put it in your purse. If nothing else, you will know what you bought and the amt. You can find other ways to remind yourself of things. </p><p></p><p>It might be handy to get some 2 or 3 part carbonless sales forms. You write things that you need to remember down and put one copy on the wall, taped on the edge of the computer, wherever is appropriate. Then you can look through the originals left on the pad if you lose a copy. You can give difficult child lists of chores and/or stuff you need/want her to do and then you each have a copy so she can't say you didn't tell her and if it is off the wall you can see that you did tell her to do it. This can also help with the "you said it was OK!" stuff. You will have a copy of a note that you wrote saying you gave her the okay to do X and Y. If she comes in and says "you said I could do Q and Z", you will have a note where you didn't. </p><p></p><p>This was a HUGE help for my mom and I. I couldn't get away with telling her she said "okay" because she never gave a verbal okay - it had to be written to count. So if I couldn't produce a note from her, then I was in trouble. If she DID say I could, then I had the note and she had a copy of it also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 498098, member: 1233"] (((((hugs))))) I know how frustrating this can be. I have to be VERY careful with my medications because I tend to lose them. Or forget which dose I have taken and which I am supposed to take. I end up setting up a month worth and then losing a week (each week is a separate box). I have had to give them to husband and have him give me one each week or I lose them. Recently I found a box iwth several weeks worth of medications in it. I know I went for a few days at a time taking the bare mnimum I can take with-o having side effects because I couldn't find my medications for that week. I am super super careful with these because they are super strong pain medications and the doctor doesn't give you more if you run out or drop them in something. This is why I brought husband into it - I was losing them and freaking out. My family says I have a "garbage can" memory because I remember all sorts of idiotic trivia like what I was wearing when i did a certain thing or an entire conversation verbatim, but now? I am forgetting imporant things and only remembering stupid trivia stuff. I know exactly that rather freaked out look the docs get when you ask about it. Often they seem more upset than I do, or than my mom does. We both go through it. is it like what they describe as "fibro fog" (google the term for some good examples) or is it more serious? When I was in high school my mom had a year when she could not remember ANYTHING. I had health problems and in the morning I couldn't walk to school. It was maybe ten blocks and in the afternoon wasn't a problem, but morning were awful and my legs sometimes just locked up and wouldn't bend with-o massage and medications. So my mom drove me to school. They changed the time school started about a month into the year. We started 25 min earlier and I was late every single morning because my mom just couldn't remember we had to leave earlier. I got a lot of grief from my teacher and the attendance officer until they talked iwth my mom and my doctor sent a note. The doctor said they could either give me home bound instruction for all my morning classes or they could just relax and ignore the tardies - he was happy to make iether one happen. They didn't like him but at the time if the doctor wrote out that a student needed homebound ed for the morning but reg ed the afternoon they couldn't do anyhting but provide it. They really didn't want to, lol. There are things you can do. My mom's motto for coping with the world is "Physical solutions for physical problems." If you cannot reach, get a stool or get someone tall to do it. If you can't remember doing something, write it down. She is a genius at finding ways to solve problems and cope with challenges. Can you get a little notebook and keep it with your charge/debit card? I know you have a checkbook, but that is big and bulky. Maybe just get a long thin piece of paper, like from a roll of register tape? and wrap that around your credit/debit card? Each time you use the card, write the item and amt down on the paper. Then wrap it around the card and put it in your purse. If nothing else, you will know what you bought and the amt. You can find other ways to remind yourself of things. It might be handy to get some 2 or 3 part carbonless sales forms. You write things that you need to remember down and put one copy on the wall, taped on the edge of the computer, wherever is appropriate. Then you can look through the originals left on the pad if you lose a copy. You can give difficult child lists of chores and/or stuff you need/want her to do and then you each have a copy so she can't say you didn't tell her and if it is off the wall you can see that you did tell her to do it. This can also help with the "you said it was OK!" stuff. You will have a copy of a note that you wrote saying you gave her the okay to do X and Y. If she comes in and says "you said I could do Q and Z", you will have a note where you didn't. This was a HUGE help for my mom and I. I couldn't get away with telling her she said "okay" because she never gave a verbal okay - it had to be written to count. So if I couldn't produce a note from her, then I was in trouble. If she DID say I could, then I had the note and she had a copy of it also. [/QUOTE]
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