Let's share some of our stories about short term memory...some are very funny.

I'll start...
After I was able to drive again I drove to a place I drove at least thirty times before. Well I got to this place and found I didn't remember how to get home!! So after driving around for about twenty minutes I was in a panic and stooped and called my husband. I said I'm lost and can't find my way home!! He said OK what street signs or freeway signs do you see? I read him the only sign I could see and he said "honey that's a Billboard sign" And I said "well don't you know where that is?" DUH!!!

I have also put our phone in the freezer...I could hear it ring but couldn't find it. We had to laugh...and now call them "Duh moments" and I still have them.
So please share your funny stories it makes the short term memory less scary.

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Mimi

One of my best ones was losing a mug of coffee. I knew I'd made one, and my mug was missing... Husband found it the following day on a shelf in the cupboard under the stairs

Well see now I don't feel so bad because I still do that,only it's where is my diet coke???

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Mimi

lol..
lets see, I have made a chart, so as when taking prednisone, I have the amount each day written and I would cross off as I took them. Here I thought how clever, then if I forget if took it or not I can look to see if crossed off, till one day, I couldnt remember if taken it or not, but then I noticed not crossed off, but couldnt remember if maybe I just forgot to cross it off!!! ahhhhh

Now tonight I just bought a weekly medicine holder, so I can put each day of three neurontins in, then if I wonder if took one or not, I can see in that day...as long as remember what day it is!!

hugss all, sarah

Short term memory loss seems to come in waves for me, thankfully. My best and most humbling story which made me laugh at myself was when I...who always touted my ability to remember things put the jelly in the microwave instead of the fridge and fought valiantly to prove it had not been me.

Just yesterday I placed my bag of potato chips in the fridge and was shocked to find them there when I went to get some juice....No finger pointing from me I giggled at myself and put them where they belong...in my belly..heehee.

Yeah for laughter - it helps me a lot.

All too funny... Thanks for the laughs..

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Mimi

Here is one of many,
I put on some eggs to boil in a little cast iron pot, went into the bedroom to watch TV and fell asleep this was around 8pm, my husband Dan came home from bowling around midnight to the flame still under the pot and exploded charred eggs all over the kitchen, they were black, he HATES hard boiled eggs including the smell, well he said this was really bad, he found me sleeping and just cleaned it up best he could, when he tells me about it in the am I am horrified and thankful I didn't start a fire. I always use cast iron cookware now, its so durable
Ruthie

I remember that Ruth!!! Who was it that did something with curtains?? Was it you Lynn??

OK another one was reading after the clipping when I thought I was fine..NOT!! Words and numbers were mixed up and I had to reread over and over again to understand a sentence. So I made a boxed cake...I think it called for 1/4 cup of oil or butter (still not sure) well I saw 1 1/2 cups and the cake never did really cook except to be this thing sitting in the cake pans...I cried and my husband said "honey they're fine, see!" and tried to pick up some cake to show me ...well he couldn't and I threw it in the trash crying I'm never going to bake again(kinda like that song "I left my cake out in the rain") I think I just aged myself I also left burners on all the time...to the point my husband Mike said he'll do the cooking for awhile. All normal...Lol
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Mimi

Mimi,
I made a cake like that when I was first married, it was a red jello cake and I used a large pkg instead of a small one that the recipie called for. It was like a big heavy red sponge. Dan tried to eat it just to be nice but it ended up in the trash just like yours. Then my baking fiasco was from inexperience in the kitchen not aneurysm damage, or was it starting already?? LOL Keep these coming
Ruthie

Hi. I am new to the forum and am not sure how this all works but in jumping around the site, I think I may have a little bit of understanding.
My husband had a ruptured aneurysm in October 2008. He has been home since November 2008 and actually back at work since January 2009.
My problem is that he doesnt remember hardly any conversations we have and we seem to fight over this constantly. I say something and he acknowledges it but then a little while later when I bring it up, he denies that I said it. It is both frustrating and scary for me and he takes it very lightly, like there is no problem, but that only frustrates and scares me more.
In addition, I noticed that he has gone from conversing with me to work out situations to basically telling me that this is how it is and thats that.
I feel like he will never get back to the man I met and fell in love with and being that we are only married 2 years, this is freeking me out.
I would love some imput from those out that that may be living this or have lived it.
Thank you so much,
Karen