I'm not crazy!

If I am honest, I'd admit that I have been a little concerned about my memory lately.  For years now, I've had a problem with forgetting the key word in a sentence, usually nouns.  I will start to say the wrong word and usually catch myself, but the really strange thing is -- the wrong word will nearly always start with the same letter -- go figure, LOL.  I've gotten used to it, and even joke about it.  But then there have been a few other oddities.  Here at work, I was working on the newsletter in Publisher and forgot how to delete extra pages.  This is something that I've done many, many times.  But on that particular morning, I couldn't for the life of me remember how to do it.  It took about 15 minutes to stumble across how it's done.  Gotta say, that was a little unnerving.  Then I showed up to work one morning an hour late - just lost an hour.  I was proud of myself for being on time - but then looked at the clock in the car as I pulled in, and saw it was NINE o'clock, not eight o'clock!  No idea what happened.  I mean, I didn't go driving off in a blackout or anything, just somehow I wasn't in the timeframe I thought I was.  It was disconcerting to be sure.  The other big thing was when I travelled to Ohio to pick up Ellen's hope chest and got lost.  I was misplaced for 2 hours.  I stopped for directions after the first misstep, and when told to turn Left, I took a right and didn't realize it.  I just kept getting further off track.  I wasn't afraid, but once I got home, I was concerned that I could get so lost even with help/directions.

But today, I took an online test and it looks ok.  So it must just be normal 47 year old brain fade, LOL!  Of course, that's what everyone has been saying, but still it feels good to find out "for sure."  I guess I'll just have to do all the normal healthy things -- eat well, get good sleep, try not to stress out over the MIL stuff.

Speaking of which, the MIL headed to the ER a week after Max's bday, at about midnight. She'd been short of breath, dizzy and headache for days.  The doctor said all these were symptoms of her AFib. They gave her a new Rx to try to control her AFib and regulate her heart rate.  We headed home about 3 am.  And by Sunday morning, she was sure that the new med was causing her all kinds of trouble!  "They make me tired, they give me a headache, they "work" on my stomach"  etc.!  At her Monday heart Dr. appt. the nurse practitioner changed her med.  On Wednesday, as I was getting home with the groceries, I got a call from Ellen at MIL's (half day of school) she was short of breath and thought she should go to ER again.  This time they admitted her.  She had a urinary tract infection, and the Dr. wanted to look more at her heart function because her kidney function numbers weren't good.  The next day the Dr. said her heart was good (still AFib, but not having Cardiac failure, heart attack or anything like that.) and they think the UTI was causing the problems.  So they kept her on the IV antibiotics and the new Rx for her AFib. 

She got out on Friday, and was able to attend G'son's graduation.  It sure wore her out though!  Her pills have been troublesome though since they added two and changed the time they want her taking the blood pressure pill.  I got her to use the pill box, setting it up on Saturday, but still having trouble getting her to take the BP pill at 5pm, she keeps taking it at noon.  She fussed at me one day after I  asked if she took her meds, and now is saying she doesn't want anyone going into the office with her when she sees her Dr.  That's a bad, bad idea.  The Dr. won't get accurate info about what is going on with her, and we will never get accurate info about what course of treatment the Dr. wants her to follow.  When I came in on Monday she said she hadn't slept well because her tummy was upset all night.  I asked if it was something she ate and her reply was "No, I know exactly what caused it and I'm going to be talking to my Dr. about it and get this fixed up once and for all."  Translation:  She thinks the pill she took before bed (her blood thinner) caused her upset tummy so she's going to try to quit taking it.  If she goes to the appt. without anyone in the room with her, she is likely to come out and tell us the Dr. said she didn't have to take it anymore - lie right to our faces and stop taking her most important pill just because she "believes" it is causing trouble. *sigh*  But I'm doing my best to encourage her, and monitor her pills unobserved, without getting completely tangled up in stress and worry.  I can not work harder at keeping her on track than she is willing to work at it herself.