I have such a poor memory.

stormbreaker

Anyone familiar with 'ojo' 'jojo' whats your name again? posts would realise no offence was meant to anyone. I miss and forget many apponitments. I am not organised at all! I still have those doors in my attic! :eek:Pity I was not forced into a move! Or perhaps I should say, your move must have had some benifits:D jojo will know what I meant;)

DUKE

Me too aliasajo Not sure if it's chemo brain or meno brain. I had a hospital appointment for a small precedure (they don't call them operations these days do they). I got up early & began to do the housework .... then the phone rang & they asked me if I knew I was supposed to be at the hospital for 8am that morning :eek: I laughed & told them that the appointment was for the following day & I'd just check my calendar to confirm that I was right - I wasn't

Waited in all day yesterday for repair man too only to find he was coming out next Wednesday :rotfl:

sassyblue

Since having a child my mind is all over the place, it doesn't help that l co-run a business as my head's always full of things l have to do. I forget names, places and even words when l'm talking to someone, and l hate it that people laugh l'm a scatterbrain because l'm trying so hard to do lots of things! I call the cat my sons name and my son - an only child so you'd think l'd get that right - l call by his cousins name!!

It is quite frightening though and l worry it's the start of something worse but seeing this thread has pleased me to know lots of people are the same. :j

Maybe it's just that we're so busy trying to do too much. :cool:

Hubby gets snapped at though when he comments because he doesn't have to think about the washing, ironing, what to cook for tea, have we got everything in we need? etc, etc. Oh to be my husband! :rotfl:

Amber_Sunshine

Thanks Aliasojo for changing the title.

Now my own contributions. At one point I had three cats and would go through all three names before getting the right one. Much the same as with children it seems. Now I have two, and STILL get them wrong, even though they are completely different colours. At least the cats don't care.

And my prize moment - thinking it was 2013. Having realised my mistake, I mentioned it to my sister. Her response - 'Well, you were only one year out!' :rotfl:

onlyroz

Well my mum usuallly cycles through a whole list of names before she gets to mine. I think so far I'm doing OK though. My mother-in-law has alzheimers, and (before she got really bad) she would just refer to all the grandchildren (and her dog) as Little'un, regardless of their actual name.

sassyblue

Amber_Sunshine wrote: »

Now my own contributions. At one point I had three cats and would go through all three names before getting the right one. Much the same as with children it seems. Now I have two, and STILL get them wrong, even though they are completely different colours. At least the cats don't care.

You have two different colour children and the cats don't care? :rotfl:

Amber_Sunshine

LOL. I don't have children. At least I don't think I do ... probably left them somewhere ...

ska_lover

I am the same. I can watch a dvd, then a fortnight later declare that I have found a 'new' film within our DVD cabinet and sit and watch the whole thing again through new eyes. My oh will tell me that we have very recently watched it, but a lot of the time, watching it again does not jog any memory. There are lots of instances like this...

I dread to think what I am going to be like in 30 years.

candygirl

ska_lover wrote: »

I am the same. I can watch a dvd, then a fortnight later declare that I have found a 'new' film within our DVD cabinet and sit and watch the whole thing again through new eyes. My oh will tell me that we have very recently watched it, but a lot of the time, watching it again does not jog any memory. There are lots of instances like this...

I dread to think what I am going to be like in 30 years.

I'm just the same with films, and even forget who's related to who on the soaps.OH goes mad when I go "who's she?":rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Funnily enough I know everyone on Corrie, so it might be selective memory:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Savvy_Sue

dibuzz wrote: »

My eldest never missed a single day of college or uni until his last year when I just completely forgot about him and it was only when I took washing into his room and noticed he was still in bed that I remembered I should have got him up 2 hours earlier.

Ah well, by 6th form mine were responsible for getting themselves up, far safer that way! Not that it stopped me poking my head round their bedroom doors if I THOUGHT they SHOULD have gone by now ... and I'd be told they'd got a study day, or no lessons until period 4 or whatever.

dibuzz wrote: »

A few times I've forgotten if I've had breakfast or not

Now, I never forget whether I've had it or not, I just don't always remember to have it! Get to work and think "No wonder I'm famished!" There's a stock of breakfast bars under my desk for such contingencies.

lushplus4 wrote: »

There's a vitamin supplement you can take for memory loss... can't for the life of me remember what it's called!!
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Gingko Biloba, I believe! I've just learned how to spell that, I thought it was Bilboa, how long will I remember do you think?

ska_lover wrote: »

I am the same. I can watch a dvd, then a fortnight later declare that I have found a 'new' film within our DVD cabinet and sit and watch the whole thing again through new eyes. My oh will tell me that we have very recently watched it, but a lot of the time, watching it again does not jog any memory. There are lots of instances like this...

Oh yes. It's a source of huge amusement to others, when I deny all knowledge of ever having seen this before when they can remember us having watched it 3 times at least!