As another thread got me thinking, I began to wonder if I am alone. I am redoing efforts that have already been done and it upsets me.

I get to the grocery store and have my list in my head. lets say I want celery. I am planning on some cooking and then I get home only to see last trips celery still in the drawer.

I currently have 3 buckets of cream cheese on the top shelf of my fridge, yet this last grocery store run I wondered if we were out. I simply couldnt remember.

boots! I need a pair of new boots. I am fussy about my feet. I have high arches and most boots dont fit well. I get them home and the sole inside is flat and hard and doesnt lend well to balance, yet there I sit with a cataloge in hand ordering that next pair. I cant tell you how many pairs I have gotten home only to have to send them back. How much money am I going to spend on S&H? They dont pay return shipping if you dont like them.

My kitchen cabinets are rammed full of yummy food, and yet I get to the store and rebuy items that I already have! I am wasting good money by doing these things.

Am I alone?

You are definitely NOT alone! I do the same thing at the grocery.....even after taking a meticulous inventory of what I already have and making a detailed list of what I need.

I get to the store and the cloudiness takes over. Maybe it's the noise, the lights, the crowds. Who knows. But I can walk up and down aisle after aisle and not know what the heck I need. Even with a list! This is why it takes me so long at the store.

I can make a list and send DS to the store and he comes home with everything on the list (and then some) but it's so much easier for me because my mind isn't bombarded with multiple items.

I guess this is the "brain damaged" part of MS. I don't like it. But I'm thankful I'm at least able to recognize that it's happening.

I always make lists, only way to remember anything. Tom Clancy describes it perfectly in his novels: "If you don't write it down, it never happened"