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hearlady

hearlady

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Yesterday I had to do an errand for work. I drove several miles before I realized that I'd gotten on the wrong side of the highway. It's a road I drive home on every day so I rationalize that I'm so used to going that way it was habit. Maybe but it bothered me. I was not paying attention which happens more and more these days.
My mother and grandmother had dementia. When I think about retiring I remember my mother worked until she was 75. Then again she never smoked, drank or took drugs. I'm sure I've lost many more brain cells than she at this age.
I don't think technology helps. Less actual thinking these days.
Do Senior Moments bother you?
 

Oooh you were ao lucky not to have been injured in a head on , HR.... I'm glad you weren't.

I've done that before, but only after returning from overseas where they drive on the opposite side of the road.. I get used to driving on the right, and then when I return to the UK, I have accidentally got onto the left side, but thankfully only for a short way before I realise and swiftly get back over.

In reply to your question, yes sometimes even at my early 60's..I sometimes do things that makes me concerned about what's going on in my brain. Not silly things like forgetting what I went upstairs for or putting the tea in the fridge instead of the milk..that's just absent-mindedness while concentrating or thinking of something else....or as you say habit causing me to do something a certain way when I wanted to do it differently..but completely forgetting things that are important and I should remember for example..that worries me...
 
Oh no, hollydolly, I didn't drive into traffic. I just went west when I should have gone east. Nothing dangerous.
Thanks. I feel better when others have done the same things.
Sometimes it's embarrassing with young co-workers. My clients are my age and older so they understand! :)
 

My car does that
I can just dash into the grocery store
Pick up a cart full of goods
Wheel back outside
And it’s gone
Could even be on the other side of the building
It becomes more and more difficult to remain nonchalant while traveling the lots, pushing a cart, seeking what may not even be the vehicle you drove up in
My woman has even watched me do this, from afar, while waiting in the vehicle
I think she’s in on it

Before retirement, weekends, we’d be on our way somewhere, and my lady will ask ‘where are we going?’
To work, obviously
 
In all seriousness, I’m glad you are ok and nothing bad happened due to the mistake hearlady.
YES stuff like that happens to me sometimes also. Dementia can certainly be cause for concern, especially while doing something that could be potentially dangerous.
Being a woodworker I sometimes use dangerous equipment. Lathes turn at incredible high speeds, so do blades in saws.
Being present in the moment is crucial for safety so ‘yes’ senior moments worry me.
 
Keesha said:
Lathes turn at incredible high speeds, so do blades in saws.
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Yes they do
oh yes, they do

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never consider changing political parties, or have budgetary thoughts
when whirling steel is at hand...your hand
 
Ken N Tx said:
Waiting for my wife at the mall, I saw her come out and get in the passenger side of a pickup, but not ours!!
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I was sitting in the truck while mama ran in the bakery to get some french rolls and a gal opened the passenger door and had one hip all the way in before she realized that it was the wrong vehicle.....not sure which one of us was shocked the most. :)
 
Every time I go to Wallymart, I at least try to remember which DOOR I went into. Do you think I can remember when it's time to leave? Sometimes I really scare myself.

Do you ever search the house for something that you SWEAR you just had in your hand. Look, and look, and look and then WHAM! there it is right in front of you where it's been all along. You're pretty sure you've looked at the dining room table five times already.......but there it is on the table. I have a theory...and I'm sticking to it...that I have poltergeist in my house that do nothing but move my reading glasses around when I'm not looking.
 
Well, yesterday we parked in the hospital parking garage, and when we finished and got into the elevator, DH and I were arguing - "I think we're on Floor #4". "No, we're on the 'green' colored floor, and that's not 4!"

We got out at floors 2, 3, AND 4, and had to walk down the aisles to see if the car was there!

Our mix-up was compounded by the fact it was the first day of our rental 'loaner' car, so we weren't used to looking for a silver grey sedan instead of a tall metallic brown SUV!

Yeah, we felt really dumb. LOL!
 
jujube said:
Every time I go to Wallymart, I at least try to remember which DOOR I went into. Do you think I can remember when it's time to leave? Sometimes I really scare myself.

Do you ever search the house for something that you SWEAR you just had in your hand. Look, and look, and look and then WHAM! there it is right in front of you where it's been all along. You're pretty sure you've looked at the dining room table five times already.......but there it is on the table. I have a theory...and I'm sticking to it...that I have poltergeist in my house that do nothing but move my reading glasses around when I'm not looking.
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I just did this. I got the can opener out of the drawer laid it on the table...got side tracked, then went back to get the can opener out of the drawer and could not find it ANYWHERE! Started ranting about where in the heck I could have put it, my man finally gets tired of my ranting and walks into the kitchen to help me find it. He found it right there on the table and wanted know what the prize was.:rolleyes:
 
I've done stuff like this most of my life -- comes from thinking about one thing while doing another. I think it's pretty normal and we just notice it more as we age because of thinking about the "senior moments" thing and worrying about dementia.
 
Lethe200 said:
Well, yesterday we parked in the hospital parking garage, and when we finished and got into the elevator, DH and I were arguing - "I think we're on Floor #4". "No, we're on the 'green' colored floor, and that's not 4!"

We got out at floors 2, 3, AND 4, and had to walk down the aisles to see if the car was there!

Our mix-up was compounded by the fact it was the first day of our rental 'loaner' car, so we weren't used to looking for a silver grey sedan instead of a tall metallic brown SUV!

Yeah, we felt really dumb. LOL!
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Next time activate the alarm on the remote..
 
Well, I must confess. Just about a week or so ago, I was in another room working on sorting excess yarn. I started having a craving for some caffeine. So, I left the room and went into my kitchen, made my coffee while my mind was still working on the yarn project. I started my coffee maker and while it was making I went back into the other room and continued with what I'd been doing. When I thought it had been long enough to be made, I went back into my kitchen and looked at my coffee maker. I let out a big yell, "OH NO!!!!! I forgot to put the pot in!!!!!". I thought "Oh, no, what a mess I have to clean up!!!!!" I looked on the floor and it was as clean as it could be. My coffee maker is a "pause and serve". It was waiting on me to put the pot under it so it could quit pausing! I looked at that thing and said "Oh, I'm so glad you're pause and serve". Then I put the pot under it and it made my coffee just like it was suppose to do. After I recovered from the shock, I couldn't help but laugh at myself and still do to this day!
 
AprilSun said:
Well, I must confess. Just about a week or so ago, I was in another room working on sorting excess yarn. I started having a craving for some caffeine. So, I left the room and went into my kitchen, made my coffee while my mind was still working on the yarn project. I started my coffee maker and while it was making I went back into the other room and continued with what I'd been doing. When I thought it had been long enough to be made, I went back into my kitchen and looked at my coffee maker. I let out a big yell, "OH NO!!!!! I forgot to put the pot in!!!!!". I thought "Oh, no, what a mess I have to clean up!!!!!" I looked on the floor and it was as clean as it could be. My coffee maker is a "pause and serve". It was waiting on me to put the pot under it so it could quit pausing! I looked at that thing and said "Oh, I'm so glad you're pause and serve". Then I put the pot under it and it made my coffee just like it was suppose to do. After I recovered from the shock, I couldn't help but laugh at myself and still do to this day!
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I did this at an office I worked in many years ago, but there was no pause and serve function back then. Ended up with coffee all over the cabinet and floor -- big fat mess!
 
Butterfly said:
I did this at an office I worked in many years ago, but there was no pause and serve function back then. Ended up with coffee all over the cabinet and floor -- big fat mess!
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Oh No!!!! I hope it wasn't a big pot of coffee. You did have a mess! Now I do a double check to make sure the pot is in each time I make coffee. I just hope it sticks and I keep doing the check because one day, the pause and serve could quit working.
 
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