She took the test, so she knows the answer. I took botany and we compared fly wings with tree leaves. That's my answer and I am sticking to it...but I will not argue with her. She's the expect on the neuro-psych answers, I am not.

B2Y, the one thing the neuro at Hopkins told me in January was that getting it done gives a good baseline for cognitive functioning. So the one I had 5 years ago would be a baseline (if, in fact, it is valid) and this one would show slippage (if any).

I don't know if "hesitant" makes you sound non-compliant. I don't think that it would HELP you get diagnosed and it's expensive testing. Heck, you could be "hesitant" to get spinal surgery and that's probably a prudent response to that. So don't worry about the effect of a "hesitant" in your records for a test that's not essential to a diagnostic path.

The testing is rather interesting. It's just exhausting. And they do stop if you get frustrated or too stressed. So if you think you would want to do it, don't be afraid of it. It's a lot but it's useful if you have cognitive problems.

A good neuropsych should be able to give you suggestions on how to compensate for cognitive issues you might have. That in itself is worthwhile because it can help you make your life LESS stressful than it is right now if the cog problems are causing you stress.

But that's NOT why I know the answer. I bugged a neuropsychologist for a while and begged to know how they were similar--because I was going nuts not knowing how they were similar. Nothing made sense to me. And it was driving me crazy. The neuropsych finally took pity on me and gave me the answer. I was incredibly grateful.


I have this strange capacity for remembering odd details, meaningless trivia, strange facts. For example, water weighs 8.33 pounds per gallon. I don't know if there's a difference in the weight of a gallon of salt water. It would be fun to know that. In school, I was the one bound to remember the weird rules about things. I could recite all the strange factual scenario details from a given hypothetical problem. So it bugs me when I can't remember the speed of light (I know it now) or who wrote a certain piece of literature. I also know what a certain scientist is famous for and what that scientist died of (but the latter part wasn't part of the test--just something I threw in as a bonus).

I need a life.

ROFLMAO @ the details/memory thing! I have the same problem, only since MS, I forget WHY I know it and where I put it in my head until AFTER I need the trivial fact!

I do know the weight of salt water depends on how much salt is in the gallon of water, and a cubic foot of fresh water weighs 62.2 lbs and that there are about 7.5 gallons of water in a cubic foot! ( it pays to know your hydraulics when in whitewater!)...

(Marie Curie and radiation and aplastic anemia as a result of radiation poisoning?)

If you want the exact answer, you need to know the ratio of salt to water. According to what I researched, salt water weighs ~64 lbs/cu. ft., and fresh water comes in at about 62.2 lbs/cu. ft. There are 7.4805 gallons in a cubic foot. So a gallon of salt water weighs 8.556 lbs.

Aviation fuel weighs 6 pounds/gallon.

Oh VERY good. VERY, very, VERY good!

Either that or you've watched the movie Enchanted WAY too often!




So let me draw some conclusions here:

Most people do not know the ratio of salt to water in their salt water.
Salt water weighs more per gallon than does fresh water.
Aviation fuel weighs less per gallon than both salt and fresh water.
Aviation is more inflammable than both water and salt water.

Very good!

LMAO...never saw the movie "Enchanted"

It just popped in when you said scientist and death.

Even scarier is that I remembered WHY inflammable does not mean NOT flammable...

I wonder why none of that ever comes out when we need it in the neuropsych eval!

My boo-boo question was in free association when the dork said Katherine the Great. I said she was a queen- dork asks of what...I couldn't remember and of course...move right on to next words...all of a sudden I yell out RUSSIA...three words later...LMAO! Then I forgot the words that were just asked...and dork wouldn't repeat them OR accept Russia for Katherine the Great...grrrr.

I figured the salt water would weigh more b/c it is denser.

Years ago (before industry diluted it) you could float in the Great Salt Lake. There were picture postcards of people just sitting and reading the newspaper w/o a flotation device.

I suppose you could drown in the GSL, but there is absolutely no way to sink in it!


My brain is a sieve. Full of holes. *sigh If I hear something important, it leaks right through. Useless info somehow sticks.