RE: Off topic for Brad25 Nov 2021 17:47
Thanks MFM, I used to have an uncle who used to say something I never understood,
i.e. "I have forgotten more than you will ever know!". A strange boast?
Watching quiz programmes on TV , I fear "I have forgotten more than I ever knew".
I'm doing well on the Guardian Cryptic crossword of late, finishing some of the setter's puzzles that I used to fail on. But my recall is nowhere where it was.
e.g. What was the name of the tribe in Suffolk and Norfolk lead by Boudica?
I used to know, but could only think of the Aztecs and Incas which I knew were wrong.
It is so annoying .... the answer will be familiar to many of you , the Iceni.
The study at Bath Uni for £15 a dose is surely excellent price , well worth trying if I am able to enlist for the trial. Will try to follow this up (if I remember :O)
I am almost sure that my problem is that I do not try to remember trivial things which I used to.
I meet dog walkers and ask some of them their name and 5 minutes later I struggle to remember what they said. And faces were always one of my fortes , but I walk past the tennis courts and get women saying "hello, not seen you for a while" and they don't even look familiar, far less , who they are. They cannot all have dementia can they? Moagi would say yes ,from his own experience of this board!
I have been taking Sertraline, an anxiety tablet for well over 3 years, a small dose , 1 per day, I wonder if I should wean myself off them and see if I improve. During my wife's fight against cancer I saw danger everywhere , I found horse racing, football, the boys trapped in the Thai caves (even after they were rescued), and many other day to day events, literally too difficult to watch!
The Dr. prescribed Sertraline and I haven't had those feelings since. They worked immediately so whether they had and still have a placebo effect on me might be worth testing. My medication is being reviewed for the third or fourth time , I'll raise it with my Dr. who thought we'd continue if there were no ill effects last time. I still have all my wife clothes pretty well where she left them - parting with them will be a good test of my mental strength I think.
A guy I know who lost his missus used to go to a casino in Bournemouth because they shared a small warden assisted home and he could not face looking at her chair without her sat in it! He had never set foot in a casino in almost 80 years before and hated gambling.
I'm not that bad but is that because of the Sertraline?
I'm rambling, thanks for your concern I really appreciate it.
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