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Dear Ida, You wrote: > I am a little worried, because your fear about general mental decline is of > course a serious one and I only joked about it Please don't feel that you need ever apologise to me for using humour. I've been known to make a joke myself. > I remember that in one of your mails after your pallidotomy I saw a > spelling error, which seemed to me so un-Dennis, that it made me anxious. Truth be told I have never been able to spell, but I used to habitually use a dictionary. What I found after my pallidotomy was that many things that I had done habitually I no longer did. This manifested itself as an apparent loss of mental capacity. Eg. I kept loosing my car in carparks until I regained the habit of noticing landmarks before leaviing it. I have discussed this at length with my neurologist who feels that it was a natural reaction to a traumatic experience (compounded in my case by having the procedure a second time a week later ) > Life is strange and a source of continuing weird observations. > Too true! Dennis. ************************************************** Dennis Greene 48/11 [log in to unmask] http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ **************************************************