Senior Moments have returned like Karma to taunt me. I confess I have had more than one chuckle over someone else’s lapse in memory. My favorite still makes me smile.
A speaker at one of our Kairos events paused mid sentence and said, “ I’m having one of those, (pause) one of those (long pause) one of those…. The poor man couldn’t remember the phrase “Senior Moments!”
Lately, it has been happening to me, more than I care to admit. However, it did hit in a very unsettling way. We were in the middle of house cleaning. I was sweeping and for a reason I can’t remember. We won’t called that a senior moment. I wanted to say something to my wife about what I was holding in my hand.
I held it up and stammered. I couldn’t call up its name. I thought and then said out loud, “I’m not doing anything else until I can remember what this is called: no matter how long it takes!
I believe it took five minutes at least. “Dustpan!” I almost shouted!
I keep telling this story so that I shall never again forget the name of that indispensable tool.
Now my wife, who is beginning to have a few herself though ten year my younger, and I have decided not to use the term anymore. Instead we call them “”Dustpan Moments.” The. We have a good laugh at ourselves and move on.
Brenda tells me not to worry. Sometime ago I had my doctor administer a simple cognition test. I passed with all the right answers. Click the test
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