Onward...

[Patti]

I've been noticing some extreme short term memory loss. As we age, memory loss can be the norm but this seems to be very sudden and very pronounced. Yesterday, I went to my grandsons open house at school. One of the things I was doing there was checking out next years teachers. One I had already known the name of and the other I didn't. They have name tags outside the doors for each classroom. As I walked in I read the name, I was there for about 10 minutes, left and starting walking down the hallway and realized I forgot her name. So I went back to read it again. By the time I got home, about 10 minutes, I totally forgot it again.

Yesterday afternoon my daughter had reminded me that we have an appt this morning for her and she needs me to go with her, something I had known about for 2 weeks. Last night I totally made a another plan in my head of things I was going to do after dropping off my grandson at school. After that my daughter had asked me what time I wanted to leave tomorrow and all I could think was thankfully she mentioned it, cause I had totally forgotten!

I do believe I am a candidate for early dementia. I have forgotten things that were told to me in the past or even struggle with things I should know, like peoples names that I've known for a long time. I do whatever I can to try to help myself, but this seems so sudden that it scares me. I don't know if it has anything to do with the sub or not but it's what happening now.