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A. A. A. D. D.


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Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D... Recently, last week, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D... Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

 

I think I got it really bad. I Blogged about spring time coming a couple weeks ago, maybe just one week ago, I can't remember now and I don't have time to check. Anyway, I decided to water my grass, it's really dry here in Texas.

 

As I turned on the hose and standing in the driveway, I look over at my car and decided it needs a good washing. As I started toward the garage to move my scooter so it wouldn't get wet, I noticed the mail on the table that I got from the mail box yesterday. I decided to go thru the mail before I wash the car.

 

I laid my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can next to the table. Now the can is full. I put the good mail back on the table so I could take out the garbage first. Now I'm thinking, since I'm going out to the street near the mailbox when I take out the garbage, I may as well pay the bills first.

 

I get my checkbook off the table and notice there is only 1 check left. The extra checks are in my night stand, so I go inside the house to my night stand where I find the can of Coke I had been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I push the Coke aside so I don't accidentally knock it over.

 

I see that the Coke is getting warm and I decide to put it in the refrig to get cold again. As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye...they need to be watered. I set the Coke down on the counter and discover my reading glasses I've been searching for all morning.

 

I decided I better put them back on my night stand, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't remember where it is. I decided to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

 

I poured some water in the vase on the flowers, but quite a bit spilled on the floor( I'm a little shaky on my good side too), so I set the remote down, got some paper towels and cleaned up the spill. Then I head down the hallway trying to remember what I was planning to do.

 

At the end of the day: the grass isn't watered, the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid and there is a can of warm Coke sitting on the counter.

 

The flowers don't have enough water, there is still only 1 check in my checkbook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

 

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really, really tired.

 

I now realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check strokenet and my e-mail for any new post since my last visit.

 

DON'T LAUGH, If this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!

 

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC, I just love HUMOR ANYWHERE I CAN GET IT!!!!

 

Stay tuned for my next Blog entitled: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday. Bye ya'll, it's March madness time!!

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Fred

 

are you sure it's AAADD and not attention/concentration problems from your stroke? either way, i imagine it's VERY annoying!!

 

sandy

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Fred:

 

your blog sounded like quiz, at the end of it even I forgot where you kept your car keys. I guess I can use this blog to quiz my son about car keys :D

 

I think you can train your mind to follow 1 rule which is finish first what you have set it out to do before picking up other ctivity

 

Asha

 

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Sandy, no, I'm not sure, in fact I'll be 65 in July, Medicare eligible and in the zone for Alzheimers. With my luck, it could be arriving early.

 

I'm glad now I kept my wheelchair, high comode and the stuff I used early in my recovery process, it could be very much needed again. You know history has a way of repeating itself.

 

Sue, I'm dizzy, and if my hair don't turn blonde soon, I may get a little dye from my friend Sandy and do it my self.

 

Asha, I tried that, but you ever notice how long my replies are? I can't stay on one thing long, one second is my limit.

 

I used to say as a joke, long time ago, that if I married a woman that love sex every day, with my luck, she would stop wanting it at all. Well, guess what?, that done happen too! Soon as I declared no more weddings in my lifetime. :yadayada:

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I find myself doing the same things. It drives my husband crazy to come home to see everything I started and didn't finish. I try to keep a check list and check off sa I go.

-Amy

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Fred,

 

Not to worry. We all have problems trying to get things accomplished.

 

Remember, if you can't find your keys you have forgetfulness, if you don't remember what your keys are for you have alzheimers.

 

Keep plugging away. :D

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Fred,

 

That's definitely funny...It sounds like my typical day :happydance:. It's amazing how after the stroke that same thing happens to me or at least that's my story and I'm sticking to it. I can't believe they actually tried to diagnose your attention span...HECK they can just blame it on the stroke, we do.

 

Shelia

 

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