(April 22, 2025 at 12:48 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I went today for my Welcome to Medicare physical not sure of how in depth it would be.

I learned that it's not a huge surprise that Trump passes his mental acuity tests.  My test was - for memory I was given three words...sunshine, rain, cloudy.  Then I was handed a piece of paper with a circle drawn on it and was told to put in the numbers of a clock face.  Then draw hands to show the time of 5:20.  Then asked the three words I was supposed to remember.

Good lord...if that's the threshold I have to wonder just how far gone you have to be to fail.

The words are generally not that closely related. Many years ago, I was present with my wife when she took her mother to the doctor for a checkup. He specialized in geriatrics and dementia. He gave her five words; I only remember "truck" and "green". Of course, it was about 8 years ago, but at the end or a half-hour session she not only couldn't remember any of the five words, but didn't remember being asked, either. It was terrible to watch her steady descent.

I remember some things well but other things really poorly. I'm bad at faces. And the arbitrary word lists leave me guessing. My father had a touch of Alzheimer's and I think I do, too. Anything over two years and I can really struggle to remember things. I have trouble remembering the names of my high school friends.

(April 22, 2025 at 12:59 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I remember some things well but other things really poorly.  I'm bad at faces.  And the arbitrary word lists leave me guessing.  My father had a touch of Alzheimer's and I think I do, too.  Anything over two years and I can really struggle to remember things.  I have trouble remembering the names of my high school friends.

It’s odd that I can recall events from my childhood in vivid detail, but can’t recall what I ate yesterday.

Boru

(April 22, 2025 at 12:56 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(April 22, 2025 at 12:48 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I went today for my Welcome to Medicare physical not sure of how in depth it would be.

I learned that it's not a huge surprise that Trump passes his mental acuity tests.  My test was - for memory I was given three words...sunshine, rain, cloudy.  Then I was handed a piece of paper with a circle drawn on it and was told to put in the numbers of a clock face.  Then draw hands to show the time of 5:20.  Then asked the three words I was supposed to remember.

Good lord...if that's the threshold I have to wonder just how far gone you have to be to fail.

The words are generally not that closely related. Many years ago, I was present with my wife when she took her mother to the doctor for a checkup. He specialized in geriatrics and dementia. He gave her five words; I only remember "truck" and "green". Of course, it was about 8 years ago, but at the end or a half-hour session she not only couldn't remember any of the five words, but didn't remember being asked, either. It was terrible to watch her steady descent.

I suppose they need to establish a baseline.  I was just a bit surprised...I probably shouldn't be as I have an insane memory for detail.  That's probably why I have done well as a bookkeeper.  Ask me what our phone number was when dad was in college - I can tell you.  Ask me the address of the house we lived in for two years in the mid-60s.  Got that too, right on the tip of my tongue.  (And yes, most of the time I can remember why I just walked into a room.)

My boss says my biggest contribution to the company is being organized and remembering things.  

The old body is going to hell in a handbasket but the mind is still functioning fine.

My family hasn't dealt with dementia; we just get all the bodily stuff that falls apart.

(April 22, 2025 at 12:56 pm)Fireball Wrote: The words are generally not that closely related. Many years ago, I was present with my wife when she took her mother to the doctor for a checkup. He specialized in geriatrics and dementia. He gave her five words; I only remember "truck" and "green". Of course, it was about 8 years ago, but at the end or a half-hour session she not only couldn't remember any of the five words, but didn't remember being asked, either. It was terrible to watch her steady descent.

I have a sister-in-law with dementia who is now 76. The last time I talked with her and her husband, she couldn't even remember having written a book on poets, which was a major achievement in her life.

Wow, there is a movie with John Travolta and Bruce Willis from 2022 that I haven't heard about. Is this like a little Pulp Fiction reunion?

(April 23, 2025 at 1:46 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Wow, there is a movie with John Travolta and Bruce Willis from 2022 that I haven't heard about. Is this like a little Pulp Fiction reunion?

No.

Boru

Evidently, in Japan, pancakes are as thick as regular cakes are here.




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Also, given that Timothy Chalamet sang a total of 40 Bob Dylan songs in A Complete Unknown, I wonder how they translated They’re just subbing it. No dubs, just subs.

The special Features Disc of Gladiator is apparently a bottomless pit of information about the film. I don't know how long it is, but I know I've gotten through a minimum of seven fucking hours' worth of featurettes with no sign of it actually ending.