When NOT to have a sudden lapse of memory.
I went to the doctor's the other day to get a repeat prescription for tablets to monitor my blood pressure and cholesterol. The doctor decided we could do better on the cholestrol front by a change of medication. He recommended Lipitor and after I asked if there was anything I should know about it, being as we sometimes hear daily of medications that have this or that adverse effect, he proceeded to tell me that it had recently come to light that some people suffered loss of memory on it.
After a bit of jocularity (or was that a nervous giggle on my part?)I decided to give it a go.
He then went on to tell me that he had come from a practice in a town near to where Fee lives. I immediately said "Oh, my daughter and her husband live near there in ...... um ........" and I knew that I had forgotten the name of her town. It was irretrievably lost. All I could think of were other towns which started with the same initial, but which I knew were not the right ones.
I made some inane comment about it not being a good thing to have a sudden lapse of memory when speaking to your doctor who has just prescribed medication that may cause loss of memory (and this is before I'd taken the blasted things), and scuttled out of his office.
NOTE: I told my husband that if I woke up one morning and said "Who are you?", or if I started to ask "Who's Unredeemed? and what is it?", he should get in touch with the doctor and get me taken off the tablets. After all, if I forget, then I won't know that I should know, but have forgotten!
NOTE # 2: I had to wait until I had asked my husband for the name of Fee's town before I could say "That's it, I remember now"
Yes.
After a bit of jocularity (or was that a nervous giggle on my part?)I decided to give it a go.
He then went on to tell me that he had come from a practice in a town near to where Fee lives. I immediately said "Oh, my daughter and her husband live near there in ...... um ........" and I knew that I had forgotten the name of her town. It was irretrievably lost. All I could think of were other towns which started with the same initial, but which I knew were not the right ones.
I made some inane comment about it not being a good thing to have a sudden lapse of memory when speaking to your doctor who has just prescribed medication that may cause loss of memory (and this is before I'd taken the blasted things), and scuttled out of his office.
NOTE: I told my husband that if I woke up one morning and said "Who are you?", or if I started to ask "Who's Unredeemed? and what is it?", he should get in touch with the doctor and get me taken off the tablets. After all, if I forget, then I won't know that I should know, but have forgotten!
NOTE # 2: I had to wait until I had asked my husband for the name of Fee's town before I could say "That's it, I remember now"
Yes.