Sorry, I was just describing the two questions on the test the doctor gave my Mom that she started showing dementia with. And the counting was the second time she was given the test.

The first test all she did not pass was drawing the clock face. She couldn't put the numbers around the clock correctly and the hands did not point to the time she was asked to show. Watching her she was confused that she did not know where to place the numbers or hands.

Another thing was it took her a couple of hours to reconcile and balance her checkbook. She would ask me to help. Just me sitting there watching and not actually doing anything she would get it right. My older brother tried to help once. He pushed her when she was slow thinking and it made her make mistakes and confused her even more. She just needed someone to tell her she was doing okay not someone to push her.

I really learned a lot about helping someone with Dementia and feel very sorry for sufferers the way most family members and professionals treat them.

My sister took care of her Father-in-law with dementia. They even built a new split level house with a basement and apartment for her in-laws. The could let him loose in the basement and not worry about him. Talking about peeing in the closet. They had their washer and dryer in that basement. You had to pre-run the washer before doing laundry because he would pee in the washer. No one ever actually caught him doing it and frankly don't know how and old man that barely could walk all bent over go to it do pee in it, but you didn't want to try a load of laundry without the pre-run. Never was a problem with baskets of dirty clothes or folded clothes or even the dryer, just the top loading washer.

I was with my dad when the doc did a preliminary mental acuity test on him. I remember that she said a word and told him to remember it. Then two or three minutes of questions. She asked him to fold a piece of paper four times. My dad did his typical exacting thing - all four parts of the paper were precisely the same size, he made excruciatingly precise, tight folds, and the result was perfect. He took so long I thought she would mark it against him, but that is the way he's been all his life (when he digs a ditch it is a work of art). After about five minutes she asked him the word - he recalled it with no problem.
But I still had to go get him a couple of days later when a LEO in the next county called and said my dad was lost.

After talking to some people I'm pretty sure my problem is stress and the resulting lack of rest.

You're retired right? Whatever it is you do that you truly enjoy... go do it and wind down a bit.

Or Aliens are controlling you brain

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1514072435.jpg

I'm trying. I hit the rower twice today.

and PA's, nurse practitioners...

anyways

Groggy is a normal side effect of ambien