Absent-minded me

We just watched U, Me Aur Hum. If you haven't watched it, here comes the main part of the plot. Alzheimer's disease. This is what Kajol starts to suffer from after a few years in marriage. She starts to forget her address, her husband's name, the fact that she is pregnant, etc. Though this memory loss is not permanent. It waxes and wanes. Sometimes she is in perfect harmony with her life, and at other times, she walks around like a zombie.

 

I have been forgetful right from the time i remember. I have never once returned home with an entire shopping list 'ticked.' There have been instances when I have gone in my car, and come back in a rickshaw. I have left my bag in stores or parks, and just a few days back, some very important documents in a copier at Fedex-Kinko's. I have to admit that I have been lucky so far to get it all back. Imagine!!! even after 15 days. Are my symptoms pointing toward any serious cognitive problems, or am I just too careless? They say, forgetfulness is mostly since you are preoccupied and heedless to the current circumstances. Yes, a lot of times, I do tend to be preoccupied, and I do tend to multi-task, but is my brain just dumb enough not to be able to differentiate between the 'important' and the 'trivial.' 

 

The most hilarious episode that has been stuck in my grey cells so far has been the fact when mom and dad went for a vacation to Goa like 20 years back taking my younger brother along, and leaving me behind with my grandparents and my bua. They told me they are taking my brother for a tonsillectomy and I believed them all this time. How silly and absurd this sounds to me now, a tonsillectomy in Goa, i can't stop laughing. It was just last year during a family conversation time, when I came to know that it was just a 'kid-lie' and I was just a plain fool to have believed it all these years.

 

Events I remember; names and dates, safe-keeping places, I don't.

 

I am not yet roaming around like a zombie, though that could be spotted sometimes now that I have my pregnancy hormones to blame. The only problem I face with this forgetfulness is the wrath of my dear husband whose 'dates-and-numbers-memory' happens to be a lot stronger than mine. I fail to explain to him how my memory kids around with me. I hope this doesn't escalate into any serious problems later in life that probably will prompt him to go watch U, Me Aur Hum again.  He has all my sympathies.