Funny thing...

[devon]

They say that one symptom of ESRD and the buildup of toxins is that your memory gets foggy.  I thought I was doing pretty good until this morning.  Driving into work, I notice that my eyes are not focusing as well as they should. Everything's a bit blurry.  I think perhaps it's the sun and that I should put my shades over my glasses.  I'm too lazy to do that.  After all, it's only 7am and I'll be to work shortly.  So I pull into the parking lot, get out of the car and look at the surroundings.  Geeze, everything's still blurry.  What's happening with my eyes?  Maybe I've got a serious problem that need attending to.  Perhaps my glasses need cleaning.  I reach up to pull them off and check.   Alas, no glasses!  I am laughing my way across the parking lot and still chuckling as I enter the building! 

Only my friends and family at IHD would understand this moment!

More related news follows in another post...

-Devon

[Romona]

Oh yes I do. I wondered why I couldm't see at all going through a tunnel. Still had my sunglasses on.

[oleboy]

My story is when I was at the store and I pulled money out of my pocket and started counting the one dollar bills, I tried four times and would get to 8 or 9 and I would forget where I was at in the count,finally gave the money to the wife to pay the bill.

[paris]

I had one of those moments in Chicago.  Jess21 and her mom were in the back seat and for some reason I said our oldest son's birthday was Nov. 2nd.  Well it is Nov. 4th.  My husband couldn't believe I didn't know my son's birthday.  He kept saying "you don't remember?"   Nope, I didn't.   I am sick of hearing people say "don't you remember?"  If I did, would I be acting so stupid?    I hate feeling old and stupid.  But I seem to be in very good company

[twirl]

my husband and I had to take children to different basketball games one Sat morning
he called me all upset b/c he could not find his glasses
which happens all the time
I gave him this lecture -  where I know where mine are
I always put them in the same place every night
my friend, who is now the social worker at the Huntsvillle, Texas Davita unit, asked me when did I get new glasses?
I had on my husband's glasses

[MIbarra]

   You must have close to the same prescription as your husband, Twirl.

[monrein]

    I can't tell you the number of times I've driven home with prescription sunglasses on cuz I forgot to take my regular ones.  I'm planning to tell the cop man if he pulls me over that I'm a movie star and didn't want to mobbed.  

[MIbarra]

That would work! You look like a movie star.

[jbeany]

My problem is that when I forget where I left the glasses, I need a pair of glasses on in order to look for them!

[pelagia]

I just love when my husband can't find his glasses anywhere and they are on his head.

[kitkatz]

I forget words in conversations, names too of people I have known for years.

[Cincygrandma]

I can definitely relate to the memory thing........more than forgetting my eyeglasses, but I usually discover them missing when I start to back out the driveway.  I also can't remember names of people I worked with for over 30 years.   But the worst was just last night when my sister asked me my great-granddaughter's name and I couldn't remember it.  I was sure it would come to me within minutes, but didn't recall it until this morning.  That not only worried me, but made me feel terrible!

[kellyt]

I got up in the middle of the night to let the dogs out (like I do every night) and when I went to disarm the house alarm I just stared at the panel.  I couldn't remember the code.  It took me a couple of tries, but I finally got it with a code that I was sure wasn't correct.  Thankfully it worked and the alarm didn't go off.     whew!

[twirl]

I was always calling students their brother or sisters names that I had already had- they got used to it and would answer by their brother or sister's name
God I miss teaching
Chris ---- watch out
you are fixing to get a homework assignment

[MIbarra]

I do this too! I always get siblings of past students since I'm ESL. I called one of my students Michael all year and he corrected me all year, "It's Aaron!" He didn't get too upset when I did it, but any other teacher and he'd yell at them!

[KT0930]

I'd be in the middle of a sentence and completely forget what I was talking about. Not a clue. Ugggh, memory loss was probably one of my least favorite side effects of dialysis.

[boxman55]

What are we talking about??  Boxman

[kitkatz]

Huh? 


That train left the station quickly without a return ticket!

[pelagia]

There's a lot of short term memory loss in my business.

[pelagia]

There's a lot of short term memory loss in my business.


 

[Joe Paul]

What are we talking about??  Boxman

Not sure, but it sounds like some pretty good "green leafy" stuff to me 

[twirl]

I started to inquire as to what business you are in
then I figured it out
  comedy

[dkerr]

Now I understand . . . I was running all over the house looking for my glasses try to go to work yesterday ... finally stopped and said a prayer and found them.  Sometimes they're just on my head ... wow I didn't know it could be my kidneys.