I visited my parents at the weekend.
My mother's memory is starting to go and so she repeatedly shares the same news and asks the same questions.
We took a drive out to visit some old haunts. She kept commenting it seemed a long time since we had been to them.
I could tell her when and the circumstances of our last visits.
Before I began this process of remembering every day that passes, I would have been almost as uncertain as her. Was it just last year? At another place, was it really two years ago?
This is the payback for the effort of developing these skills.
It is becoming easier with time. I am more routinely using the full-date tagging approach I have blogged on previously. When I recall the image for today it will be associated with 14 January 14.
Knowing the year is becoming more important as they begin to mount up. For a while, I was losing my way between years, but this technique seems to have resolved that problem.
My mother's memory is starting to go and so she repeatedly shares the same news and asks the same questions.
We took a drive out to visit some old haunts. She kept commenting it seemed a long time since we had been to them.
I could tell her when and the circumstances of our last visits.
Before I began this process of remembering every day that passes, I would have been almost as uncertain as her. Was it just last year? At another place, was it really two years ago?
This is the payback for the effort of developing these skills.
It is becoming easier with time. I am more routinely using the full-date tagging approach I have blogged on previously. When I recall the image for today it will be associated with 14 January 14.
Knowing the year is becoming more important as they begin to mount up. For a while, I was losing my way between years, but this technique seems to have resolved that problem.
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