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Friday, June 9, 2023

Goines On: Forgetting remembered


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Goines found disquieting the growing number of signs that Mrs. Goines was forgetting to attend to the same things over and over again – like where she had left her glasses or her iPhone.
    But then he remembered he kept forgetting to attend to things like that too.
    It was reassuring that he wasn’t alone in it.


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2 comments:

  1. Goines was later reminded by his friend Lisa that putting one’s glasses or phone down often doesn’t even register, doesn’t leave a print in memory. So one can’t forget where one left them; one never memorized it in the first place.

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  2. "If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em!" There are some studies that I really like that say many older folks forget things, especially trivial things, not because of dementia but our brains are full up from years of experiences. Too bad we don't have "scandisc" for our noggins!

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