Ok, I’m losing my mind.
I’m chalking this up to no sleep, menopause, drugs I have taken
(prescription ones, except for the brownies, but I don’t think they have such a
long lasting effect. Besides those were
medicinal and we all know that medicinal drugs never have bad side effects,
especially the ones with chocolate.), getting older, and chemo brain (which I
did some research on and found out it can take a very long time to end or
possibly be permanent – great.).
On a daily basis I forget everything. I recently forgot the name of one of my kids
for an hour. I was stubborn and wouldn’t
let anyone tell me what it was. Seriously, I should know what’s-her-name’s
name. everyone asks me which kid, and I
can’t remember. I can never remember the
“right” word for something (I know this is a common problem for us aged
folks). That leads to trying to describe
the word. Which reminds me of a time in
8th grade when I couldn’t figure out how to spell the word “just”
and started doubting that it was actually a word. I guess this memory thing has been going on
for awhile.
So yesterday, I stood in front of my closet and wanted to
turn on the light. I stared into the
closet and looked at the bulb and thought to myself, “how do I make that go
on?” I then remembered there was some
sort of switch. I looked around and
found that light switch right where it always is, you know, right by the
outside of the door. I concentrated
really hard on the switch to figure out what I was supposed to do to it to make
it turn on the light. Look at the
switch, look at the bulb. This switch is
one of those that you push the bottom or you push the top, not a flip one. I tentatively reached out and pushed the
bottom (which was already depressed), nothing happened. I then pushed the top. Ta-da!
There was light! I was proud of
myself for figuring it out, but at the same time confused and horrified.
I know we all can say we forget things, but have you ever
forgotten something so simple?
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