Glad it as just a memory lapse, Max. Yes, going into an MRI & the noise therein: interesting time, as they say.
Doug
> On Jan 1, 2016, at 2:18 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Max better keep your dog with you!!'transient global amnesic event' blimey 'global ' means we all had it!!
> take care you old dog person cheers P
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Max Richards
> Sent: Friday, January 1, 2016 4:19 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cricket poem - hard to find - memory problems
>
> No it wasn’t me, guys.
>
> Nor do I recall it
>
> nor have advice on how it might be found.
>
> (Just back from a night and a day in hospital after what they suggest was
>
> a 'transient global amnesic event' - or episode -
>
> no, no big dreadful memory loss, just half an hour went missing!
>
> during which I reached, walking with our senior Lab
> the marker where I turn back for home,
>
> and made it safely through busy intersections
> without on my part any conscious decisions that would
> usually have lodged in my memory.
>
> Don’t say it happens to everyone, please.
>
> This seems a first for me at 78, and not just a fit of absentmindedness,
> of the sort with which I imagine everyone is familiar.
>
> The important thing was for the hospital to check it wasn’t a mini-stroke,
> and they reckon it wasn’t.
>
> Ever been rolled into a big metal tube while fitted into
> a sort of open coffin with a mask over one’s face? - While the MRI
> machine goes clank and knock and bash bash around one…
>
> No wonder they ask beforehand whether you suffer from claustrophobia.
>
> Engraved on my memory.
>
> Happy and memorable new year 2016, everybody…
>
> from Max in Seattle
>
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> On Dec 31, 2015, at 8:28, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> with my memory and over 10 years of snaps and what thousands of poems I open it up to the group -perhaps one of our keen sports poets or at least a memory!!cheers P
>> wasn't you Max???
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton
>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 2:21 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Long on - a cricket poem
>>
>> I don't, Pat. Remind me ...
>>
>> On Thursday, 31 December 2015, Patrick McManus <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Bill do you rember we had a poem snap some years????? ago about long on? I
>>> remeber that was when I was forced to play the game my favourite
>>> (favorite!!) position -safe!!
>>> new years greetings
Douglas Barbour
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