Before my medical crisis, I had an excellent memory. I could remember the names of everyone I met and never had to write anything down. After my medical crisis, this all went to hell. Understandable as I had a stroke–a significant one. to put it bluntly, I wasn’t expected to wake up (I was in a coma). I had walkiung (non-Covid-related) pneumonia, two cardiac arrests, and a stroke. Yes, all aat the same time. The last three within twenty minutes of each other.
When I suddenly woke up a week after I had fallen in a coma, I was thrilled to be alive. This was quite the change for me (being thrilled about it, not the actual being of it), and I didn’t care about the minor issues that came with it. The complete loss of my short-term memory, my blurry vision, my inability to know what day it was. Seriously. I woke up on the tenth of September (or maybe 9th). On the 11th, a nurse asked if I knew what day it was. Uh, no. And even if I did, I don’t think the tragedy of September 11th, 2001, would have been the first thing on my mind–or the hundredth.
My vision cleared about the third or fourth day I was home. The memory loss, however, stuck around. I took it in stride because, again, I was just glad to be alive.
Lately, however, I’m really irritated with my memory as it’s getting worse. I write down important things, so it’s not that. It’s the little things that are getting on my nerves. For example, I bought three different cases for my new phone. Not because I wanted three cases, but because I didn’t understand the way the phone cases were being sold. I wanted a case with a front and back–and with a clip. The pictures on Amazon showed cases that looked as if they were front and back while saying they were double protection!
What I did not get was that the two layers of protection (usually one being a flimsy foam layer) were both for the back of the phone and not the front. So the first two I ordered were like this. I finally realized my issue and looked specifically for cases with clips (Because that usually meant it would have a front cover and a back cover). I found the OtterBox for my new phone and ordered it. When that one arrived, it was for the wronge ‘size’ of my phone. I had specified the correct size, but they simply sent the wrong one.