Tulelake, CA— I am losing my short-term memory
Like my Mom, I am losing my short-term memory. I figure I may have a decade or less to get all the things I can get done before I get full blown Dementia. I took care of my Mom so I know some of the things I had to do for her to help her and now I will have to do some of those same things for me now.
It has been a while, so I will have to refresh my memory on the things I did for her and others who helped me with her to remember people’s names and retain and as much as my short-term memory as I can. At least I am somewhere I remember for the past decade that I have been in and out of this area. So that should make it easier with knowing where I am at, at all times, I hope.
It is good to have good friends who can help me to remember when I forget things, maybe even their names, like what happened to me today.
I took a walk to Jock’s to get some things and on the way I met up with one friend I know and remembered her name, then I met two new friends or people that know who I am and my news web site.
Then as I was coming back a city worker called out to me. We had a nice conversation but all during that conversation I could not remember his name and I have known him for years. I mentioned a name of the same person we both know but that did not help me to remember his name either. In fact, I did not remember his name until I was doing the dishes, then I remembered his name. At least I remembered it, a while later but I remembered his name.
I forgot the other day that my lunch was being delivered and jumped in the shower to get ready for the dentist but I remembered in the morning it was coming but I forgot all about it until the phone rang, then I explained what happened and told the person I was getting like my mom now. The next time I go to the doctor I will let him know too so maybe they can give some medication for it and get some other natural stuff, like I gave my mom to help her from a health store.
That is why I feel I don’t have much time left so that is why I am working so hard to accomplish all the things I can in the last chapter of my life and one thing I will never forget is what a good friend of mine once told me.
The bigger the star the nicer they are,
The smaller the star the bigger they think they are,
People who read what I write honor me and that is enough for me, as I am very humbled knowing that fact.
Then there is politics and that is hard too when I have so many people to deal with. This person does not like that person and that person does not like that person so I have to walk softly between them as they are all my friends and it makes it hard to do the news. But they all know I do not play favorites no matter who they are or how much money they have or don't have. What matters to me what is right and what is wrong in my opinion and if people don’t like what I say or do they can always change the channel or not read what I write.
It is that simple in the last chapter of my life!
Written by James Garland of Tulelake News
PO Box 772
Tulelake, CA 96134-0772
Home Phone (530) 667-4744
Cell # (530) 708-7852
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