I Told You, Remember?

 

“I told you, remember?”

I don’t know about you, but I get that alot.

A-LOT.

During conversations with loved ones, I’ll ask a question and hear “I told you, remember?” as their response.

Sometimes it clicks and I’ll say…”Oh yeah.”

Other times it fizzles & peters out like a damp firecracker.

 

 

 

 

Is this the dreaded MS-related “cog-fog?”  A memory lapse?  A neurological short-circuit synapsis?

 

Call it what you want—it’s a pain in my rear end.

 

And what bothers me most is that it is happening with more & more frequency.

 

 

 

My wife says I should get my hearing checked, but I disagree that’s the problem.

 

For over 20 years, I produced lame commercials at a radio station.  So I am trained to hear clips & pops so faint a Beagle would tilt its head.

 

At church I can hear a fart from six pews back…but don’t ask me to remember what I just heard!

 

 

 

 

Some folks respond by talking to me louder…and slower.

 

Yeah that helps.

 

What am I in kindergarten?

 

Is it my day to be line-leader, I forgot?

 

 

 

Thus, my predicament must be MS-related I assume.

The Swiss-cheese myelin of my brain makes collecting a thought as porous as eating soup from a strainer.

Like wearing fish-net stockings is really chilly.  (Again, I assume.  I have no experience wearing stockings.  At least none I’ll admit publically.)

 

 

 

 

So how do we deal with this?

Grin & bear it?  Focus & listen harder?  Shrug our shoulders and shake our heads side-to-side?

I remind you with…”I told you, remember?”

And you’ll say…”Oh yeah.”