I was told yesterday about someone who has recently been institutionalized
with senile dementia at the age of 51: the poor soul, once vivacious and
successful woman, had been deteriorating for about a decade, and was now in
a condition beyond the abilities or capabilities of her family's care.
I certainly fret at any signs of poor memory retrieval in myself, I saw my
mother decline dreadfully in her later years, but I suspect I suffer in
that respect from little more than the accumulated repetitions of events
and a sometimes overloaded mind. Like maybe many here, I multi-task easily,
while also worrying at some very old bones at the same time. I think too
that old emotions, unsolved angers, balloon in background of the years:
loomily :)
On 14 September 2012 18:53, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Fri, September 14, 2012 15:33, Andrew Burke wrote:
> > Man, I am so glad someone else suffers this calendar confusion! I do it
> > often - and worry that it will only get worse.
>
> Yes. I shared a house for some years with a woman who lost her memory and
> now spend some time with another, both aging and perhaps it is to be
> expected; but it makes me see early onset of everything in everything in
> me
>
> In fact I was always like it, I think. I can remember nearly 20 years ago
> announcing things at gigs like -- suppose it were today I am speaking --
> "next week, that's February 12th"... Just dates from nowhere. It was as if
> there were a calender dial in my head which had come loose and spun around
>
> I know in May I said to a colleague that we'd be done with a project by
> September and she said But I shan't be here then. No, no, I said. I mean
> June.
>
> She's less than half my age and I'm sure she thinks I'm losing it --
> fighting it maybe, but losing it. Maybe I am
>
> > Maybe we could start a new school of poetry - The Vague Rants ...
>
> ooh that's a bit near the bone
>
> L
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