I read this and started to worry: “define dementia as
“the loss of cognitive functioning — thinking, remembering,
and reasoning — and behavioral abilities to such an extent
that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities.””
Then I realized that I’ve been that way for as long as I can
remember.
…
…
…
Uh-oh.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
What I don’t see taken into account is how BUSY
you are. How many interruptions are you dealing
with? The average person can only do and
take care of so many things at a time. The
plate is full. To add one more thing, something
else needs to come/fall off. Priorities are set,
priorities are rearranged.
Are you eating meals? Doing laundry?
Earning money? Paying bills? Pay a
modicum of attention to your SO?
I think that covers most of the more
important things in life. IOW, don’t
worry. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
And it’s all small stuff.
(Quote from someone)
Do you forget what you were about to do often?
Do you forget peoples’ names?
Is it easier to remember what you were doing
as a kid than yesterday?
If you don’t answer yes to those questions,
you don’t have dementia.
If you feel you do though, go see a doctor.
While there is currently no medicine to cure it,
there are some that can tremendously slow down the progress.
If you were going into dementia your work here would visible suffer and we
would know something was up. My sister-in-law (brother’s wife) is in some
stage of dementia. It’s getting so bad my brother sold their house and moved
them into an assisted living facility. My sister-in-law was always kind of a
space cadet so I cannot imagine what she’s like now. Both her parents died
with dementia so it was to be expected. It doesn’t run in my family so I figure
I’m safe. If you’re worried about it see a Doctor. There are tests they can run
to see if you’re going into one of the forms of dementia (apparently there are
multiple ways you can lose your marbles). I got my VA shrink to promise me
that if I ever asked him he would have me evaluated, no questions asked.
PC; it largely depends on the degree of interference that it produces
in your life… To an extent; this is also true of ADHD, as the symptoms
are quite similar… (I should know, I HAVE ADHD…)
I have always been proud of my verbal skills, and my ability to
remember all kinds of words, names, places, etc. But now I
find myself stymied by a search for some common word that
I can’t bring to mind, no matter how hard I try.
I know what you mean. I had a pair of baby strokes in
’09 and for a couple of weeks I had two left legs.
My verbal IQ is very high but lately I sometimes
struggle to get a word, always a noun.
Very frustrating!
Here is an oddity. I developed problems with my wrists and went in for
testing, etc. The doctor asked when I had my stroke. (This was about
1996.) After a lot of testing, etc., they were pretty sure I suffered a
stroke when I was 18 months old, in a coma, in the hospital trying
hard to die from measles. I have always had some funny problems.
I can’t smile with the right side of my mouth, for example. And I went
back to all the photos I could find as far back as around 4, and it has
always been true. And it explained some other oddities in my
background. But that doesn’t explain why I can’t, for the life of me,
think of words I have known all my life.
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
Awww….looks like the NCO misplaced the toe poppers.
Bad NCO. This will reflect poorly on his NCOER (not!)
The toe popper missed……and hit the terrorist’s
knee instead.
ROFLOL!
Not an NCO, a basic trainee. Good training.
He figured that was the most likely spot for someone to stop for a drink.
The other popper is where people are most likely to go to after the first
one goes off.
acting NCO… while in boot camp, squad leaders or fire team
leaders were referred to as the rank in the field.
IE squad leader was Sargent. and fire team leader was corporal.
but, not in the field ‘acting’ was added to title..
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
How DARE these invaders call Teresa
a “whore”! As far as PC has let us know,
she’s been so busy (and brought up so
properly) that’s she’s had no time to
even think about sex, much less dance
the “horizontal mambo”.
Even if she has, that has nothing to do with it.
To a “true Muslim” all women are whores, no
matter who they are. That’s why they cut them,
make them wear the outfits, and have the rules
about their hair and who does what to them.
The real kicker for me was if a woman is ra-ped,
SHE is killed, NOT the ra-pist. Because she used
her “whore ways” to seduce him, no lie. It”s
their “culture”, not the written laws.
Either they want to fortify the building, or they are planning
to collect up those kids and take them back to Jerico. I hope
so anyway.
More like Mo-HAMSTRUNG, he’s not going far with that! It
shocked me he knew enough that water was going to make
them sick, I wound up in the ER with an IV because of how
dehydrated I became. Even with the meds, it took a week
just to get the less spoken parts of dysentery over with.
My father just laughed and told me about what happened to
him in Korea…
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight
Korea…..I tried to be careful of what I ate
and drank in my one year there.
No tap water, no ice even (made from the
same tap water, duh!)
Nothing from the street carts.
yes,, yes they did…
but it was more “clear” than clean,.
500 bc Hippocrates made a crude one.
1600 sir Francis Bacon made one.
1700 Joseph Amy first ‘patented’.
1800 first city water treatment.
Korea ,, was “field use” not every day.
That was what I was saying before, when the Legion
was rescuing that boy from the Cali clowns?
You have to boil the water no less than 10 minutes
and then run it through a filter.
Few were told that or bothered with it.
Ha! Could be worse, every time my name is called at least
2 other’s ask for the last name. Michael is like the 4th most
common in the USA, or at least it was in the early 80s.
According to https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/decades/century.html
Michael is #2. Mine’s in the top 20 (and my brother,
brother-in-law and nephew are all named Michael),
but there are some in the list that are kind of surprising.
Joshua (#20) and Anthony (#14). Huh. Not where I grew up.
Never knew a Josh or Tony till I was an adult.
Still only know of a couple of each.
Yesterday I was waiting till 5pm (20:00, West Coast Time equivalent). At
5:05, no comic. Checked again at 6, 6:30, 7:40, 8:50. No comic – darn;
is PC sick? And, then, finally, remembered that it was Thursday, not Friday.
Doh! Brain fart galore.
I think such things happen to us as we age more often because like a
computer hard drive, we’re constantly putting new data into our brains.
And sometimes the search and recall functions have to go looking in
deep storage, rather than in readily accessible RAM. At least that’s my
story, and I’m sticking with it.
I have a couple of word games on my phone, a couple of Sudoku games,
and a Solitaire game. And chess, but I’m pretty rusty, and I hate losing to
a computer playing in “easy” mode, so I don’t play that very often. It’s
embarrassing – I was president of the chess club in high school. I try to play
the other games each once or twice a day, just to keep the analytical skills
exercised, at least to a small degree.
It's not the swamp that will get ya'.
Not yet, anyway.
I read this and started to worry: “define dementia as
“the loss of cognitive functioning — thinking, remembering,
and reasoning — and behavioral abilities to such an extent
that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities.””
Then I realized that I’ve been that way for as long as I can
remember.
…
…
…
Uh-oh.
What I don’t see taken into account is how BUSY
you are. How many interruptions are you dealing
with? The average person can only do and
take care of so many things at a time. The
plate is full. To add one more thing, something
else needs to come/fall off. Priorities are set,
priorities are rearranged.
Are you eating meals? Doing laundry?
Earning money? Paying bills? Pay a
modicum of attention to your SO?
I think that covers most of the more
important things in life. IOW, don’t
worry. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
And it’s all small stuff.
(Quote from someone)
Heh, then I’ve had it for the last 5 years.
SQUIRREL!!
No wait, that’s something else… 😛
If you watched the Trump / Biden debate,
Biden matches my father in speech,
mannerisms, and movements. Pretty cut
and dried.
While Kamela doesn’t match anyone I’ve ever known.
She’s just a classic “Karen”, about the
worst possible choice for a Pres.
Scary huh…….
(“Highway to Hell” starts playing)
Do you forget what you were about to do often?
Do you forget peoples’ names?
Is it easier to remember what you were doing
as a kid than yesterday?
If you don’t answer yes to those questions,
you don’t have dementia.
If you feel you do though, go see a doctor.
While there is currently no medicine to cure it,
there are some that can tremendously slow down the progress.
If you were going into dementia your work here would visible suffer and we
would know something was up. My sister-in-law (brother’s wife) is in some
stage of dementia. It’s getting so bad my brother sold their house and moved
them into an assisted living facility. My sister-in-law was always kind of a
space cadet so I cannot imagine what she’s like now. Both her parents died
with dementia so it was to be expected. It doesn’t run in my family so I figure
I’m safe. If you’re worried about it see a Doctor. There are tests they can run
to see if you’re going into one of the forms of dementia (apparently there are
multiple ways you can lose your marbles). I got my VA shrink to promise me
that if I ever asked him he would have me evaluated, no questions asked.
It was a joke.
I figure writing this story is exercising
the ol’ brain and warding off any problems.
Your fine PC, we all just worry about you sometimes.
We all got baggage, it gets heavy sometimes.
PC; it largely depends on the degree of interference that it produces
in your life… To an extent; this is also true of ADHD, as the symptoms
are quite similar… (I should know, I HAVE ADHD…)
I have always been proud of my verbal skills, and my ability to
remember all kinds of words, names, places, etc. But now I
find myself stymied by a search for some common word that
I can’t bring to mind, no matter how hard I try.
I know what you mean. I had a pair of baby strokes in
’09 and for a couple of weeks I had two left legs.
My verbal IQ is very high but lately I sometimes
struggle to get a word, always a noun.
Very frustrating!
Here is an oddity. I developed problems with my wrists and went in for
testing, etc. The doctor asked when I had my stroke. (This was about
1996.) After a lot of testing, etc., they were pretty sure I suffered a
stroke when I was 18 months old, in a coma, in the hospital trying
hard to die from measles. I have always had some funny problems.
I can’t smile with the right side of my mouth, for example. And I went
back to all the photos I could find as far back as around 4, and it has
always been true. And it explained some other oddities in my
background. But that doesn’t explain why I can’t, for the life of me,
think of words I have known all my life.
Awww….looks like the NCO misplaced the toe poppers.
Bad NCO. This will reflect poorly on his NCOER (not!)
The toe popper missed……and hit the terrorist’s
knee instead.
ROFLOL!
Not an NCO, a basic trainee. Good training.
He figured that was the most likely spot for someone to stop for a drink.
The other popper is where people are most likely to go to after the first
one goes off.
acting NCO… while in boot camp, squad leaders or fire team
leaders were referred to as the rank in the field.
IE squad leader was Sargent. and fire team leader was corporal.
but, not in the field ‘acting’ was added to title..
How DARE these invaders call Teresa
a “whore”! As far as PC has let us know,
she’s been so busy (and brought up so
properly) that’s she’s had no time to
even think about sex, much less dance
the “horizontal mambo”.
Even if she has, that has nothing to do with it.
To a “true Muslim” all women are whores, no
matter who they are. That’s why they cut them,
make them wear the outfits, and have the rules
about their hair and who does what to them.
The real kicker for me was if a woman is ra-ped,
SHE is killed, NOT the ra-pist. Because she used
her “whore ways” to seduce him, no lie. It”s
their “culture”, not the written laws.
He knee-ded that
Bravo! Well played!
“Oh… The foot bone is connected to the..
Knee bone…”
Not any more.
And his troubles ain’t over yet…
Heh I bet, I meant to says was:
“Foot bone WAS connected to the knee…”
Either they want to fortify the building, or they are planning
to collect up those kids and take them back to Jerico. I hope
so anyway.
More like Mo-HAMSTRUNG, he’s not going far with that! It
shocked me he knew enough that water was going to make
them sick, I wound up in the ER with an IV because of how
dehydrated I became. Even with the meds, it took a week
just to get the less spoken parts of dysentery over with.
My father just laughed and told me about what happened to
him in Korea…
Korea…..I tried to be careful of what I ate
and drank in my one year there.
No tap water, no ice even (made from the
same tap water, duh!)
Nothing from the street carts.
Yeah they just dug a well and you crossed your
fingers I guess, they didn’t have water purifiers
back then.
yes,, yes they did…
but it was more “clear” than clean,.
500 bc Hippocrates made a crude one.
1600 sir Francis Bacon made one.
1700 Joseph Amy first ‘patented’.
1800 first city water treatment.
Korea ,, was “field use” not every day.
That was what I was saying before, when the Legion
was rescuing that boy from the Cali clowns?
You have to boil the water no less than 10 minutes
and then run it through a filter.
Few were told that or bothered with it.
Uhoh, where did Mali go?
Her turn was up, she might be sleeping.
LOL Three guys named “Mo-something or other” and one guy named “Frank”.
Great gag, Catman!
Heh, true but there always seems to be
a Frank, Bob, or Steve in any group… 😛
… well, thanks …
🙂
Ha! Could be worse, every time my name is called at least
2 other’s ask for the last name. Michael is like the 4th most
common in the USA, or at least it was in the early 80s.
According to
https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/decades/century.html
Michael is #2. Mine’s in the top 20 (and my brother,
brother-in-law and nephew are all named Michael),
but there are some in the list that are kind of surprising.
Joshua (#20) and Anthony (#14). Huh. Not where I grew up.
Never knew a Josh or Tony till I was an adult.
Still only know of a couple of each.
I don’t doubt it, John Smith has been
#1 for as long as I can remember.
#3 and coincident twin is #3… o.0
Friday’s page is ready to post at 2000. I hope you all enjoy it,
and remember, no matter how bad it gets, it can always get worse.
I just looked in the mirror, it already has!
LOL 😛
Tease!
Yesterday I was waiting till 5pm (20:00, West Coast Time equivalent). At
5:05, no comic. Checked again at 6, 6:30, 7:40, 8:50. No comic – darn;
is PC sick? And, then, finally, remembered that it was Thursday, not Friday.
Doh! Brain fart galore.
I think such things happen to us as we age more often because like a
computer hard drive, we’re constantly putting new data into our brains.
And sometimes the search and recall functions have to go looking in
deep storage, rather than in readily accessible RAM. At least that’s my
story, and I’m sticking with it.
I have a couple of word games on my phone, a couple of Sudoku games,
and a Solitaire game. And chess, but I’m pretty rusty, and I hate losing to
a computer playing in “easy” mode, so I don’t play that very often. It’s
embarrassing – I was president of the chess club in high school. I try to play
the other games each once or twice a day, just to keep the analytical skills
exercised, at least to a small degree.