Staying calm when there’s a blip in your memory
Dealing with a hole in my memory (Senior News Daily editorial staff)Like so many of my friends and contemporaries, I’ve begun to encounter those awkward moments when memory fails. The incidents happen occasionally and although bothersome, they are not occurring with a frequency that would elevate my concern. Still, I’m a bit uneasy about what might lie ahead. As I’m guessing anyone my age would be. So here’s how I deal with a lapse in memory when it unexpectedly pops up. It begins with a simple sentence, perhaps a descriptive phrase in the course of a casual conversation. I might be heading off to the grocery store with my wife, Arlene, meaning to simply add an item to the shopping list, as in “Let’s get some of those…” and suddenly, there’s a hole ...