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(Pssst) <whispering> Hey Dennis.... I'm FINALLY admitting (reluctantly!) that forgetting words, names, etc. is NOT always caused by PD. That type of memory loss is ALSO due to (shuddering at the thought of poor Dennis being having to come to grips with this...) <wee smirk> the encroaching years. So maybe you're just... uhhhhhh... getting... ummmmm... OLDER, m'friend (and you'd be in such GOOD company, Dennis, if you permit your august YEARS (I know... I'm being bad.. just can't RESIST tweaking ya) <grin> as the reason you're having memory lapses every so often. Look at it this way... it's NATURAL to forget things occasionally as one ages, and EVERYBODY does THAT ... even kings, presidents, beauty queens, and the man on the street. Ya know.. it's almost comforting to know that one's having a touch of memory loss because of something as normal as aging than being caused 'cause you're the unwilling host of Parkinson's Disease. Barb Mallut (who's gotta few years on ya and drops a word now and then) [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Dennis Greene Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 8:31 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: knowing left from right Kathrynne, Hi; how're you doing, long time no see. You wrote, in regard to telling left from right: > Dennis,I don't know what causes it, either, but it's the same for me. > Only I've been that way all my life. and later: > You're the first other person I've ever heard of who's mentioned having > this problem. I'm sort of glad I'm not the only one. Kathrynne I am happy to be able to report that there are at least three of us. A friend of mine of 30 years standing has always had difficulty with left and right. He happily admits that to this day (and like me he is pushing 50) if someone says left he thinks "watch", if the instuction is right he thinks "no watch", then he actually looks at his arms to check which has the watch. I suspect that the number of people who have always had trouble with L and R is higher than just the two of you. I also wonder whether my losing my automatic response to L and R is in any way the result of PD or possibly my pallidotomy. I am one of those lucky people who was born with a built in sense of direction and that seems, at the moment, to still be working well. Its the words that have gone walkabout. I also have this recent tendancy to write or say west even if I mean east (I have not as yet substituted east for west). So far north and south are securely nailed down. Petty as all this seems, it occurs to me that these could be early signs of cognative disfunction, and I intend to discuss the possibility with my neuroligist at our february meeting. Hopefully all I am looking at is normal absent mindedness. Either way, I'm not a good source of directions unless whereever you're going is to the north or south. or directly in front of or behind me. Dennis. ************************************************* Dennis Greene 48/10 [log in to unmask] http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ **************************************************