Some Joys from the last five years....

Some time ago I started to make a list of the positive side to having memory problems. I'm finally starting to realize that it is not going to go away and reality tells me it will only get worse the older I get. Having said that, I might as well start making the best of what little memory I still have! So I'm posting this in honor of the upcoming anniversary of my brain surgery on June 28, 2004. What a wild ride it has been!

The Joys of having a Bad Memory

May 2009 (Left partial temporal lobectomy- June 2004)

You can read the same book multiple times and never remember it.

You could potentially save a lot of money, because you don’t recognize clothes from your closet.

It seems that you remember things at exactly the moment you need to remember them……well, then again, sometimes not.

People can tell you confidential things because you will forget it soon anyway.

You can’t hold a grudge no matter how hard you try.

You can watch a movie multiple times for the first time!

It’s kind of amusing to watch the funny looks you get when repeating under your breath the alphabet in an effort to recall a person’s name.

At least I really do have a GOOD excuse for my bad memory!

I’m “fun” to play a new card game with because you have to keep repeating the rules to me over and over again all night. By the next day, I have forgotten what game we played.

You can go into a new adventure in life with no prejudices, because you have already forgotten those things that would have falsely or negatively influenced you.

You can listen to a person tell you the same story on multiple occasions and it doesn’t bother you.

Déjà vu soon becomes second nature to you.

You can reserve the right to keep this list open for further additions, because you can always use the excuse that you forgot to add just one last one...........