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She said 5 words and I said them back.
Then she had a number of easy tests, like, "What is the date?"
I said, "The day after Christmas.. so must be Dec 26, 2023."
She said, "I have been asking that all day, and no one has missed it yet."
I laughed.
Then she wanted me to remember those 5 words from 5 minutes ago.
I could only remember 3.
My wife, sitting there, asked the doctor for a referral for a more extensive test to baseline my mental decline.
And she got one:(
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Decades of voting for the lesser of two evils has gotten us just that.....
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She said 5 words and I said them back.
Then she had a number of easy tests, like, "What is the date?"
I said, "The day after Christmas.. so must be Dec 26, 2023."
She said, "I have been asking that all day, and no one has missed it yet."
I laughed.
Then she wanted me to remember those 5 words from 5 minutes ago.
I could only remember 3.
My wife, sitting there, asked the doctor for a referral for a more extensive test to baseline my mental decline.
And she got one:( "what is the date" is also a test , people with issues don't remember it. "The day after Christmas.. so must be Dec 26, 2023." : good abstraction . she evaluated you based on answer.
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Short term memory decline is a common thing, it happens with age and with many neurological disorders. I can remember things people said to me in the first grade of school back in 1965 but go to get something out of one of the drawers in the bathroom and can't remember what it was while digging in a drawer. Dangit what was it I came in here after?
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Another cognitive test the docs give is to ask the patient to count backwards from 100 by 7s. A lot of people who are having cognitive problems stumble on that one.
FWIW.
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I got to 65 and said phug this, I'd rather have dementia than do backwards math
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humans think and talk in 3's the good , the bad , the ugly life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness the son, the father, and the holy ghost we are taught to develop 3 key points in a presentation because humans block out after 3, and 2 pieces of information isn't enough to convince our logical brains
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[quote=Leanwolf]Another cognitive test the docs give is to ask the patient to count backwards from 100 by 7s. A lot of people who are having cognitive problems stumble on that one. FWIW. I'm 68 now but I'm pretty sure I couldn't have done that at 18... Math shaming is just wrong  ...
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Above a certain age I think they just look for stuff to scare you into more visits.
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How is knowing todays date any indication of a good memory?
I don't gaf what the date is anymore.
I also use a calendar on my stupid azzed smart phone like most everyone I know.
My father answered those questions with "I don't care" until they asked something he cared about.
Nurse asked him who was the president. He answered "that GD niqqer". Not sure if that helped his situation any....she was black. He then went on to tell her the difference between being black and a niqqer. Not sure that helped any either.
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If the doc had nice t*ts you could blame her for less than ideal answers.
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I just had a wonderful fried chicken, tomato, cheddar and truffle cheese, on a flour tortilla sammich for lunch.
Did I pass?
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In it is death and all you seek
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Can you repeat that blindfolded?
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She said 5 words and I said them back.
Then she had a number of easy tests, like, "What is the date?"
I said, "The day after Christmas.. so must be Dec 26, 2023."
She said, "I have been asking that all day, and no one has missed it yet."
I laughed.
Then she wanted me to remember those 5 words from 5 minutes ago.
I could only remember 3.
My wife, sitting there, asked the doctor for a referral for a more extensive test to baseline my mental decline.
And she got one:( Based on your years of posting on here , your thoughts opinions you are not close to having any form of pre dementia
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I got to 65 and said phug this, I'd rather have dementia than do backwards math Ha that’s where I stopped too.
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I just had a wonderful fried chicken, tomato, cheddar and truffle cheese, on a flour tortilla sammich for lunch.
Did I pass? grape nuts
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Another cognitive test the docs give is to ask the patient to count backwards from 100 by 7s. A lot of people who are having cognitive problems stumble on that one.
FWIW.
L.W. The hard way I'd have to do math in my head. Could do it faster on paper, even faster with a calculator. The easy way is "7", another 7", another 7". 
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Short term memory decline is a common thing, it happens with age and with many neurological disorders. I can remember things people said to me in the first grade of school back in 1965 but go to get something out of one of the drawers in the bathroom and can't remember what it was while digging in a drawer. Dangit what was it I came in here after? My brother calls that, "Thinking of the Here After" What am I here after?
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You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
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Yep, that's a hard test. Designed to test transference from short to long term memory. That's why they interrupt you with non-sense question, then ask those five words again. Any you then missed failed to make it from short to long term memory. As you deteriorate, transference from short to long term memory becomes impaired.
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