Good luck today Debbie.

Good luck Debbie! Let us know how it went! We're here for you.

Let us know how it goes Deb.

Got "released" after almost 2 hrs. It was all cognitive tests. He told me before we started that if I feel as if I'm doing poorly not to get bent out of shape, that the tests were meant to be hard, but I could be doing really well.

It was a list of pairs of words, he'd read them then tell me a word and I'd have to give him the pair word...the first time I did poorly, We did it 3 more times throughout the morning and by the 4th time I remembered all but one word pair.
Then there were patterns in a grid. You'd look at it and then he would place a bunch of cards with patterns on them and I'd have to put the piece in the correct box. When there were only 3 I did well, but any more than that and I couldn't remember the patterns, let alone which box on the grid they went in.

I also had to draw pix that he showed me. Towards the end of the exam he made me draw them again. Of the 5 I could only remember 2.

He didn't tell me how I did-said it's up the adjudicator in Springfield. I was exhausted afterwards. Then I hobbled to my car and came home.

I decided that what will be will be...I know I'm not up to snuff anymore. Especially when I take my inlaws to appointments I'd cancelled but didn't remember cancelling them I can't do my checkbook anymore, and I even have trouble ordering my and the inlaws' meds. This isn't even considering the fact that I can't stand for more than 5 minutes before my legs start hurting from spasms.

I'm just fortunate that my DH is still working and has insurance. I am truly blessed.
Thanks to all of you for your well wishes and friendship...as I said, I'm blessed

Now I have to take MIL for her pacemaker exam...see ya!!

Sounds like some form of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or WAIS test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsle...lligence_Scale). I took the WAIS-III about 6 years ago when I was first having my hearing loss issue and before I knew it was MS (it was part of testing for ADHD). My processing speed score was about half of my other scores. I think I have had that problem since high school since I did similarly poorly on the clerical portion of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude test that was almost identical to the processing speed tests in the WAIS.

You're right, TX...that's what it was. Blech!

Glad to hear your appointment went pretty well! If you're anything like me, you'll probably be resting today to recuperate. Thanks for "reporting"!

If those Psych guys want me, they can try to catch me. I happen to think that I'm as smart as a whip and as sane as anyone here.

I live in my little world and refuse to let anyone rain on my parade. . Of course, like so many of you, I no longer have to compete in the work world.

I exercise my little brain every day, to keep it in spiffy condition. Hardly any cog fog here.....not even senile yet..LOL

Good wishes for you, Debbie..

Not setting a very high bar for yourself are you?

Hee...hee..TX!

It's weird-I do two Sudoku puzzles a day in newspapers, and 2 crossword puzzles. I do pretty well.
But those weird grids with dots and pictures...and then when they show you a bunch of pictures and you have to choose what was on the grids they showed and then covered up, it all becomes spaghetti noodles in my brain and I can't remember a thing.
And then when he gave me some numbers and said to repeat them in reverse...if there were more than 4 numbers, I would forget the first numbers...
I graduated 8th out of 1,000 classmates in high school...had a photographic memory...now it's mush.
I'd love to work...but with my achy legs, stiffness and cog fog, I'm just afraid I'd make a fool of myself...