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[gail]

Word(of)wisdom

Liz, about memory, boy this got me scared last week.

I was sitting down to watch TV, and I could not figure which button for the on off. Had to take my glasses out to check the remote control! And find the right button. After 3 years of using it, I had a blank. Alzheimer episode. Didn't like the experience!

[fishinghat]

word game

 

She is for a fact. What an angel!!

[TryinginFL]

game continues...

 

 

Me too, FH!  Sometimes I really have to think hard about how to operate the stupid thing

 

I can also be talking to someone and I can't think of the right word and I just stop talking - embarassing

[gail]

Game over

You make me smile FH.

[fishinghat]

over done

 

Can't remember the right word, get tongue tied, you bet all the time. I have been that way since I was born. I couldn't even talk at all then.  lol

[Ramona80]

done for

 

Nope, no fever. And these symptoms began BEFORE I started weaning down on the Cymbalta. My psychiatrist, a second psychiatrist, and two pharmacists all agreed that it's too high of a Cymbalta dose, and that I need to decrease. They've seen it in other people who can't tolerate a high dose. I am already at 80 mg, down from 90. Am going to slow my taper down now though.

[gail]

For good

I talk aloud to myself, at times I say, this is a good idea I just got. And I can't remember what the good idea was, just great!

Woodstock, you also make me smile!

[TryinginFL]

Good ideas
 
 
Gail, maybe you should try writing down those good ideas as soon as they pop into your head!

[gail]

Ideas for

Liz, they vanish in one second. Maybe they are not that great after all!♥

[fishinghat]

for tomorrow

 

If she is like me Liz, even if she writes it down she would forget where she put the paper!!  lol 

[TryinginFL]

tomorrow hopeful


I wish that I could feel that tomorrow hopeful thoughts will emerge, but no guarantees there!
Afraid I'm just like you two!

[gail]

Hopeful outcome

Great trio here. We three would do well in conversations. Memory speaking!

No guarantees in anything Liz. Except the fact that we are never alone and that we will all end up at the same place! In the light!

[TryinginFL]

outcome hilarious


If we 3 had a conversation, there would probably be more silence than talking - the outcome would be hilarious!

[gail]

Hilarious story

I can imagine it. What did you just say? What do you mean? What were we talking about? And maybe at the end, Who are you?

[thismoment]

story book

 

It's playing out like a story book-- symmetrical, with beginning, middle, and ending.

 

Regarding the memory loss issue that surely is common to us all to one degree or another-- apparently it's a "use it or lose it" kind of proposition like regular muscles, senses, and faculties. Here's a note on how doing crosswords (or similar mental exercises) hones mental acuity, and indeed delays the onset of degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

 

http://www.telegraph...emory-loss.html

[gail]

Book reading,

Good for me, crosswords nearly every day, playing cards everyday, and so on. Must be the meds.

By the way, Thismoment, are you a new member?♥

[thismoment]

reading helps

Reading helps my mind stay in motion.

I watched the CNN Special, 'Glen Campbell-- I'll Be Me'. What a talent; what a gift.

Broke my heart.

5. 3 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's, and 5.1 million are over age 65.

[gail]

Helps with

A walking encyclopedia. I remember G Campbell with his Wichita's lineman. I used to listen to him often in the early eighties.

Liz, got you covered this afternoon, and many others including myself!

[thismoment]

with Google

 

I have very few facts in my head, and no beliefs; I just go with Google for basic data.

[gail]

Google Yahoo,

Well, you got me here. No beliefs, few facts. A poet for sure, and intelligent(e) comme un singe. I know that you will understand this french expression.

The mystery remains and always will!

[thismoment]

Yahoo Serious

 

Yahoo Serious is an Australian actor best known for his 1988 comedy Young Einstein.

 

Intelligent (e) peut-etre, mais pas malin; ce n'est pas moi.

[fishinghat]

Serious TM

 

An intelligent kind and caring soul. Loads of respect for you TM.

[gail]

Thismoment,

Pas malin, I am sure. Ce n'est pas toi. It is nice to read french written words!

[TryinginFL]

Sorry, but I am confused here!

 

Where exactly are we??

[fishinghat]

nowhere, everywhere

 

Heck if I know but this will get us started again TFL

[TryinginFL]

everywhere else

 

I have looked everywhere else and couldn't find it!

Thanks, FH!

[fishinghat]

else give

 

Fight or else give up. 

[thismoment]

give gas

"Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live."

This poem is titled Resume, and it's by Dorothy Parker from The Portable Dorothy Parker.
As you probably know, Dorothy Parker was a wonderful writer with compelling and bitter-sweet material.

[gail]

Gas tank,

Know nothing about poetry, my brain cannot relate or understand.

But I know that my gas tank is half full.

[fishinghat]

tank warfare

 

"I eat my peas with honey

I have done it my hole life

it makes my peas taste funny

but it keeps them on my knife"

 

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