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Barry Holt

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Hi to you all,couple of hours ago I made my wife and myself a drink,a little while later my wife went into the kitchen and came back a moment later and asked where I had put the top from the milk,the milk was in the fridge but I forgot to put the top back on and as my wife says " another senior moment" is anyone else having " senior moments" or is it only me haha
 
Oh yes indeed, my worst one was putting the dinner in the fridge instead of the oven, DOH.
 
Not noticing that you have not put the top back on the milk bottle is not a very serious case in my opinion. You don't have much to worry about. I went through a phase of half finished tasks. Half stacked dishwasher and diverted to something more interesting or urgent and then getting diverted from that task etc. Then coming back later and wondering what happened.

I am better now, I just forget why I went into the other room etc.
 
My best one was driving 12 miles in to work to be told its your day off today and then having to drive all the way home again.
 
Barry Holt said:
Hi to you all,couple of hours ago I made my wife and myself a drink,a little while later my wife went into the kitchen and came back a moment later and asked where I had put the top from the milk,the milk was in the fridge but I forgot to put the top back on and as my wife says " another senior moment" is anyone else having " senior moments" or is it only me haha
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Yes all the time, I did write on eddies thread recently that I shouldn't be in charge of myself. About three years ago I treated myself to a pair of prescription sunglasses, I never even wore them, my teen thinks I put them in the bin, they cost over £70,:arghh: :bigtears: I could of screamed. Also the remote was found in the recycling bin as well :rolleyes:
 
Barry Holt said:
Hi to you all,couple of hours ago I made my wife and myself a drink,a little while later my wife went into the kitchen and came back a moment later and asked where I had put the top from the milk,the milk was in the fridge but I forgot to put the top back on and as my wife says " another senior moment" is anyone else having " senior moments" or is it only me haha
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That can happen to anyone. Be a bit different if you had gone in the kitchen and put a pan on a lit gas stove without putting anything in it.

We all get senior moments regardless of age.

These signs are the more significant ones.

The Alzheimer’s Association has created this list of 10 Early Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer’s:

– Memory changes that disrupt daily life.

– Challenges in planning or solving problems.

– Difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, at work or at leisure.

– Confusion with time or place.

– Trouble understanding visual images and spatial relationships.

– New problems with words in speaking or writing.

– Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps.

– Decreased or poor judgment.

– Withdrawal from work or social activities.

– Changes in mood and personality.

http://blog.aarp.org/2013/07/19/i-just-had-a-senior-moment-should-i-worry/
 
Apart from the silly ones when I go up stairs for get what I was up there for stand there for five mins come back down then remember and go up again ( at least it increases my exercise )
I think the one that still get to me is driving 45 mins home from work pulling up locking the car just about to put the key in the front door and realising I hadn't lived there for close on 30 years :wideyed::wideyed::wideyed::wideyed::facepalm:
 
All the time. I figure it must be good exercise having to walk twice as far everywhere to go back and get what I forgot on the first trip.
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What was the question again?
 
I once introduced myself to someone as Kate. My name is Kerry! No idea where that came from. Was then too embarrassed to correct my mistake. I mean, who on earth forgets their name?!
 
Names are my worst enemy. Then proper nouns.
I get in full flow until a name just disappears from my head.

In work I was calling pallets, anything except pallets, because it just wouldn't come from my memory!

Gggrrrrrrrrr!
 
I once put my reading glasses in the fridge,seached the house for them,never expected to find them in the fridge,went in the fridge for milk,and there they were.
I often go upstairs for somthing and cant remember what,but thats normal im told.
 
I normally have a pretty good memory, but since I was in my 40s (menopause time) I've had "word blocks" when I forget (for varying short periods) either a person's name or a thing's name. Fortunately my immediate boss (who was also a good friend) usually knew what I was talking about when this happened at work! . But I think for many women getting forgetful is possibly a chemical/hormonal issue as several of us at work were of similar ages, and we all seemed to get a bit doolally around the same time. I am getting a bit more forgetful now and have the occasional usually very short "what was I going to do now?" lapse which infuriates and frustrates me because I rarely forgot anything, unlike my husband who has to make lists, puts cucumbers in bread bins, and more dangerously leaves toasters and hotplates switched on.

Robbity
 
catherinecherub said:
That can happen to anyone. Be a bit different if you had gone in the kitchen and put a pan on a lit gas stove without putting anything in it.

We all get senior moments regardless of age.

These signs are the more significant ones.

The Alzheimer’s Association has created this list of 10 Early Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer’s:

– Memory changes that disrupt daily life.

– Challenges in planning or solving problems.

– Difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, at work or at leisure.

– Confusion with time or place.

– Trouble understanding visual images and spatial relationships.

– New problems with words in speaking or writing.

– Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps.

– Decreased or poor judgment.

– Withdrawal from work or social activities.

– Changes in mood and personality.

http://blog.aarp.org/2013/07/19/i-just-had-a-senior-moment-should-i-worry/
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Now I'm worried! :hilarious:
 
I once drove up into Chichester from the office then walked back and didn't remember I'd taken the car until halfway through afternoon. That was an expensive lunch hour parking. :D
 
My first senior moment I remember was when I took my second baby out in the pram, when I got home the friend who was sitting my eldest asked where the baby was, OMG Outside the newsagents one n a half miles away. Fortunately I knew the shop owners and they had taken the pram inside, I was 27 and it was 1967 so it can happen at any time
 
JAY1JAY1 said:
Apart from the silly ones when I go up stairs for get what I was up there for stand there for five mins come back down then remember and go up again ( at least it increases my exercise )
I think the one that still get to me is driving 45 mins home from work pulling up locking the car just about to put the key in the front door and realising I hadn't lived there for close on 30 years :wideyed::wideyed::wideyed::wideyed::facepalm:
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I recently had to fill in an official form and wrote the address that I lived at over 20 years ago. Doh!
 
Teen reminded me, months ago, whilst making her lunch box up, she said to me ' mum you have you put a cat food pouch in my lunch box' doh:oops: :wideyed: :hilarious:I can just imagine her face if she opened it at school lol. Also, instead if putting milk in my tea I put Fairy fabric conditioner in it, similar while bottle :oops::eek: :p
 
poohtiggy said:
My first senior moment I remember was when I took my second baby out in the pram, when I got home the friend who was sitting my eldest asked where the baby was, OMG Outside the newsagents one n a half miles away. Fortunately I knew the shop owners and they had taken the pram inside, I was 27 and it was 1967 so it can happen at any time
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Not quite so bad, but years ago my sister took her first little dog, a Sheltie, to the shops with her, and told her to sit and wait outside the shop. She did .... until my sister remembered that she'd left her and went back to find her still patiently waiting! None of my dogs would ever be trusted to wait like that though.

Robbity
 
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