Can you relate?

[LovelyLadyLux]

As I'm getting older I do know that I walk into rooms and wonder why? I know that car keys also seem to have been invented just to taunt me in my dotage as to their whereabouts. Pens have always been put down and picked up as I walked through my day but I always figured that by the end of the day I'd of come full circle and probably end up with the same pen. Coffee cups dot about the house as I put them down and then forget where I left them however being bigger and given they have to put down onto a clear flat surface they're easier to spot. Course I never admit publically that I do any of these things.

Anything you've ever done that is slightly reminiscent of this following story?



Several days ago as I left a meeting at a hotel, I desperately gave myself a personal TSA pat-down.

I was looking for my keys. They were not in my pockets.

A quick search in the meeting room revealed nothing.

Suddenly I realized I must have left them in the car.

Frantically, I headed for the parking lot.

My husband has scolded me many times for leaving the keys in the ignition.

My theory is the ignition is the best place not to lose them.

His theory is that the car will be stolen.

As I burst through the door, I came to a terrifying conclusion.

His theory was right.

The parking lot was empty.

I immediately called the police. I gave them my location, confessed that I had left my keys in the car, and that it had been stolen.

Then I made the most difficult call of all,"Honey," I stammered; ( I always call him "honey" in times like these.) "I left my keys in the car and it's been stolen."

There was a period of silence. I thought the call had been dropped, but then I heard his voice.

"Are you kidding' me," he barked, "I dropped you off!!!"

Now it was my time to be silent. Embarrassed, I said,"Well, come and get me."

He retorted, "I will, as soon as I convince this cop I didn't steal your car."

Yep, it's the golden years................

[Horus]

[Grandad]

LLL, I think we do a lot of things automatically and then can't remember doing them. It is not uncommon for us to go out and after a few miles Mrs G will ask "Did I close the bedroom windows?" or "Did I turn off the gas hob?" etc. We turn around and go home to find, of course she did. It is just that things become SO automatic that when you question your actions you cannot leave things to chance and simply HAVE to check.

I think the 'going into a room and asking yourself, what did I come here for?' is very common and not a sign of something sinister. It happens to me often and perhaps, sometime I will turn the situation round, and go into a room not remembering why, but thinking 'now I am here I will do such and such' at least to make the trip worthwhile.

Something that gives me a little bit of concern is my increasing difficulty in remembering particular words. I can become quite frustrated in my mind trying to find a word that I know but it just won't come. But situations that occurred 50, 60, or 70 years ago I can remember in clear detail.....strange

[LovelyLadyLux]

Something that gives me a little bit of concern is my increasing difficulty in remembering particular words. I can become quite frustrated in my mind trying to find a word that I know but it just won't come. But situations that occurred 50, 60, or 70 years ago I can remember in clear detail.....strange

THIS - losing specific words has become my nemesis. They eventually do come to me but often I'm in the middle of telling a story and the specific necessary description word just floats away. MOST ANNOYING (to me and probably everybody else I might be talking to).

If my loss of words keeps up I figure by the time I'm 80 I'll be mute and by the time I'm 90 I'll definitely be a "DUMB" mute!

Not too sure what makes us lose words. My brain is still quick (I think) but words, particularly names are often very elusive.

[Grandad]

That makes me feel much better to know that I am not alone LLL, and as I will be 80 later this year, even more so

[Jayway]

Well, the only advice I can give to you is EAT SAGE. This herb has this name for a reason - SAGE. Oh, I do hope you can remember this word? You can grow it, you can pick the leaves and dry them to make jars of powder, you can make tea (they sell it here at the markets as a weight loss thing) you can chop it up fine into your salads (hide it in the mayo) and put it into your pots and pans for your dinners - JUST EAT IT. This I tried as an experiment at the elderly home, and after a couple of months we noticed the conversation between residents had improved.

[LovelyLadyLux]

Sage (as an herb) is not really a common one here - (for me anyway). I believe I've seen it sold in plant nurseries but that is one herb I don't use.

Will have to give it a go - If I can remember! .

I'm really big on using turmeric and coumin (my favs), pepper, chives, parsley, cilantro. Parsley is in all soups by the handful and cilantro I tend to juice (as well as parsley). I like ginger but tend to eat it mostly with sushi.

I've read about cinnamon and the benefits of eating it with real honey however trying to find REAL cinnamon here is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Mostly what is sold is the real cheap stuff that has minimal to no health benefits at all.

I personally quite believe there are mega health benefits to be found in herbs and plants that we haven't even found yet.