Article - Memory loss following breast cancer treatment
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I don't have this problem and cannot imagine what I would do if I had. All I can add is my empathetic support to anything that can help, and to say that at nearly 73 (how the hell did that happen?) I don't expect to have lost my cognitive and verbal skills, let alone 20 years earlier! Utter bollocks indeed. Any of us can use help with the myriad complexities of day to day life - I have at least 20 passwords at work alone, many with a 6 week life, for goodness sake! And I have used a pill box for years, but that's not the issue. I live pretty cheerfully with my side effects but that one would floor me.2
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Ditto @Ellamary98. I will often sit back in conversations and listen so as not to appear stupid. There are times when someone will be telling me a story or similar and I just have to kind of nod and smile even though I have been totally unable to follow the thread of the discussion.
@wendy55. Went to the cheap shop to get wrapping paper, walked out of the door and thought "I'll just pop round to that nice butcher round the corner" Got in the car and drove back to Woolies. There was a time delay of about 30 seconds between the thought and getting into my car. No worries, I'll double back after Woolies. Got in the car. Drove home.
Seriously. Countless times, I walk in to a store and struggle to remember what I am there for. Half the time if I make a list I forget to look at it. I set alarms for bloody everything now.
There is no way it's "age related" I'm 46 (ok, a couple of weeks shy of 47) for goodness sake. It is also very cut and dry as to when it started.
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The password thing @fraser OMG. My partner and I and a couple of friends did a first aid course over the weekend. Yeah, a different way to spend time with your friends...
Part of the process was providing a USI (universal student identifier) so we had to retrieve them from a govt website or create one (those who haven't studied in years) I've got 4 email addresses, all used for different things. Which one was attached to my USI? Turned out to be my 'study' EA and I'd forgotten the password. Because iIforget everything. Then I had to guess which EA was the back up, remember the password for that.. Eventually got a 'reset password' link and they want a 9 digit password. 9. Why?
It used to be 4, then 6 then 8...I'm doomed if I have to come up with a whole new set of interchangeable passwords if they all change to 9. Im 'already sailing close to the hackworthy wind. I know, that's the road to ruin but I'm done with the whole business. I simply can not remember any more numbers.1 -
I currently have 39 passwords - more than half (I checked) are work passwords. I am not really doing anything that secret!! My choice is to write them down and remember to update or to use the same one for everything (deeply frowned upon). Twenty years ago you had to remember your street number and telephone number. The memory impact is serious but made impossible by the liberal application of email addresses, app urls, passwords, passwords for your password and so forth to areas of our lives that seemed to function OK before all this. The Luddites had a bad press - the introduction of new technologies for the sake of the new is not always a good thing. And don't start me on the inroads on human interaction, and the complete absence of a service responsibility, irrespective of what you pay for same.5
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Don't ask me any more details because I haven't the faintest idea, but you can set up a "vault" that assigns random complex passwords to everything you register with.
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I cried recently when Google performed a crazy update on my laptop and all my user names and passwords were no longer remembered. I couldn't access anything without 10 security steps. I rang the bank and they wanted to id me by checking to see if I could recall the 3 most recent transactions on that account. Ha! I don't think so.0
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How's this:
I walked into Subway to get myself some lunch.
I cold not find the word 'bread' and refused to look like a moron pointing at the one I wanted, one glance at the decisions needed to fill the bread came up blank too. So I turned around and walked out......
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Tonight I can't remember if I've fed the dog or not. I know I went to....but can't actually remember if I did. I think I got distracted along the way. Dog is a labrador, so he is no help. He always looks hungry and would annihilate 10 dinners in a row. Not sure what to do...think he can fast for the night anyway, he's looking a bit podgy.
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@JJ70, that is one beautiful pup!1
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@Ellamary98...lucky he is gorgeous because the naughty factor is sometimes just a little too much....just chewed up my daughter's homework book and pencilcase. He gets one side of the kitchen bench with something he knows he's not allowed to have and round and round we go.....smart fella if I am honest. 2
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I heard a doctor on ABC radio today talking about the ongoing research into general anaesthetic caused cognitive impairment. Not in any great detail other to say that it's a 'thing'. I've had a total of 13 hours under a GA from December last year to April this year. Throw in having cancer, and chemotherapy, that's three CRCI factors... Awesome.1
