This is Andy, an early retired anaesthetic manager, who is discussing his personal encounter with Parkinson's disease.
Here he discusses how Parkinson's has impacted his short term memory.
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Yeah, I suppose also, having said that, memory is a really dicey subject with me at the minute. And it's not like an Alzheimer's, dementia kind of memory thing, it's just like a general memory loss of something like last week. And it's like, people can say something to me six times and I'm there thinking, okay, and even after six times I still can't remember what they said. So now it's just a memory. I'll talk about memory in a little bit. Everyone, even when I was at work and stuff, everyone forgets stuff. And a lot of it was due to the fact that, particularly the last couple of months when I was in the office managing the department, People come in, say something to me, and I just didn't listen. I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, fine, fine, we'll sort that out later. Thinking, they'll come back. When it gets too bad, they'll come back, and I'll listen to them all. And then, but then, eventually, like, one person kept coming to me about pay and stuff. So I eventually, I listened to her, and I sorted it out. So now, it's not a case of I'm doing something else. I just won't listen, but I'll pretend I am. Now, it's a case of I'm listening, but I can't remember it. And that's quite strange. And also, people say to me, we're going, I took an example a couple of days ago. And then she said to me, don't forget Sunday. And I said, oh, no, I won't forget Sunday. And I'm thinking, what was Sunday? And why would I forget Sunday? It's just a day in the week. And of course, then it dawned on me that something might be happening on Sunday. So she told me, yeah, we're having barbecue on Sunday. And, you know, the friend, your English friend's going, okay, be nice. She said to me this morning, should we go shopping for the barbecue? I said, what barbecue? And so she said, she looks at me as stupid. And it's that kind of thing, even now, when I'm actually making a conscious effort to listen and remember things, I forget it. I forget stuff. And yet, if I watch a TV program I watched six years ago, I can remember lines from it. So it's a very short-term thing. Honestly, I don't think it's like an Alzheimer's things or do anything I think it's just my brain is so overloaded with stuff that's backed up then I'm thinking you know barbecue is right back at the end of the queue there in my memory warehouse it is pretty full it's a pretty full library in there and I just think our brains are slow getting it out, if that makes sense.
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