memory book

[Guest guest]

I wish to suggest to others who may have memory problems that you may

consider making a " memory book " . I have specific type of memory problems due

to stroke type events and TIA's and I am hard pressed to come up with

strategies to assist me. I have in my memory book anything, everything that

I need to remember on a non daily basis and then I have it on my " daily to do

list " to look at it daily. Going over it daily can remind me of problems

that have already been resolved, but I have " forgotten " what the solution was

or even if there ever was one! For example, it is so obvious to us that

because of how I am affected as well as how my youngest is affected that I

can never be functionally income productive ever again. No, we don't have a

magical solution to how to handle such if something should ever happen to my

DH or if he should become incapacitated, and we don't have any ideas if I

should get significantly worse, but we do have an idea of how we may at least

not starve to death! I have rehashed this subject over and over again

repeatedly because I can never remember that we have come up with a few

ideas. That is in my memory book along with other " normal " memory reminders

like our anniversary, passwords, pin numbers, etc.

Just thought I'd share in case someone else can't " remember " how to problem

solve!

Cheri