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Mama is ninety-three years old. She often scolds me for being forgetful. "Lord-a-mercy, Young'un," she'll say, shaking her head at me.

I don't get angry at her for scolding me. For one thing, at my age, it's nice to be called a "young'un" and within the second place she's right. i can not remember my very own telephone number some days.

Like the other day once I wrote a check at the shop and therefore the cashier asked to ascertain my driver's licence .

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After I got up off the ground and stopped laughing, I handed her my driver's licence . She must are kidding. Right?

According to a piece of writing I read from The American Academy of Family Physicians.

 Your body also starts to form less of the chemicals your brain cells got to work. The older you're , the more these changes can affect your memory.

Could this be kind of like when your computer's hard disc needs defragmenting? i feel something happens to our memory files after we pass the forty year/five million mile marker, whichever comes first. I always say mine is neither age nor mileage. It's all those sudden stops that have worn me down. regrettable we will not just run scan disk, defrag, then reboot our brains.

I miss my mind. i actually do. I miss the old days once I could remember everything I needed to shop for at the market without making an inventory . Now I even need to take a pencil with me and mark off each item as I place it in my handcart , otherwise I click with ten jars of spread .

I saw an old flame of mine the opposite day while at the grocery . (thank goodness she wasn't injured.) We were exclaiming over how long it had been since we had seen each other . All the while I kept thinking 'Who in heaven's name is that this person?'

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I should have remembered her, except for the lifetime of me I couldn't remember her name. We chatted for a couple of minutes and promised to stay in-tuned . i assumed this is able to be the right thanks to get her name, so I said, "oh, you will need to offer me your telephone number ." She smiled and waved it away as she rounded the pork 'n' bean aisle. "I'm within the phone book. "

Some people are good with dates. I'm not. the sole date I can remember is that the one my sister set me up with. Boy was he a...oops, wrong quite date. Now where was I? Oh yes...

My birth year is about the sole date I can remember. Sometimes I even have to count backward to work out my age.

And don't you hate it when someone asks, "What was the name of that song, movie, book, person..." or whatever they're trying to remember? This makes me crazy. If that they had not asked me, I probably would've remembered it. But since they put me on the spot, my brain keeps getting a 404 page-not-found error. Then I spend the whole night in sleepless anguish, trying to recollect it. then it involves me all of a sudden when I'm least expecting it, like within the middle of a church or while I'm waiting in line at the bank. Then i buy of these funny looks from strangers once I jump up and down and yell out the solution .

My doctor's office started a replacement service a couple of months ago. Now they call the day before and ensure the appointments for the subsequent morning. I'm really glad of this for it helps me remember to not forget to point out up. However, it's going to not be a service in the least . Maybe I'm the sole one they call?

Mega Memory, a replacement product on the market developed by a gentleman named Kevin Trudeau claims to show techniques that stimulate neurotransmitters in your brain to instantly increase your memory and brain . There also are a gazillion different pills and potions and oceans of lotions that claim to assist in memory enhancement.

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I keep buying them...

I just can't remember where I put them!

Leeuna Foster may be a syndicated humor columnist from East Tennessee.  She is additionally a reporter and staff writer for The Beacon.

She has been published by the Mcfadden Women's Group, Happiness Magazine, Byline Magazine, also as various other newspapers round the country. If you'd wish to publish her column in your newspaper or magazine, you'll contact her through her website at " www.leeunafoster.com [http://www.leeunafoster.com] for more information.