For all of my life, I've prided myself on my memory. I even wrote a blog post about it.
All the stress of moving, plumbing woes, and redoing the basement after plumbing woes seem to have affected my brain. Hopefully, it will come back.
A week or so after we moved in, I got a notice in the mail that I hadn't paid a credit card bill. I don't think that has ever happened to me. Especially this one, since it's through our bank so I can just transfer funds straight from checking.
A week later, I began to panic about our Amex bill. I hadn't received the bill in the mail yet, and I was worried it wouldn't come before the due date. I know forwarding mail can sometimes delay things, so I finally just called Amex.
"Someone already paid the bill."
"Who?"
"I'm sorry; I can't tell you that."
Flabbergasted, I asked A if he had paid it. No. Then I happened to look at my check registry. Yeah, I had paid it, right before we moved.
The memory's not gone for good, is it? Is it?
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3 comments:
No it's not gone for good...when life gets way too busy and complicated because of a move (think about it..you are dealing with TWO houses!) things can fall through the cracks....but you have moved, you have had the whole basement fixed and survived it!!
Now breathe....and the memory will return!
oh yea..you should change your profile cause it says you have one house!
I find that when I get stressed, certain aspects of my memory take a temporary leave of absence. For me, the most disturbing is an inability to remember words. When I begin to have vocabulary issues, then I know I'm too stressed and likely exhausted. It mostly comes back when I return to a manageable level of stress/ exhaustion. However, I used to be great with names and dates and between my time as an EFY counselor and having 5 kids and that is mostly gone for good. I now strongly believe in the power of my iphone calendar and auto billpay/email reminders. I have a friend who never wrote anything down--not even phone numbers and addresses. She didn't even ever own an address book until her husband died when she was in her mid forties. She had to get an address book; the grief and stress just taxed that part of her brain too permanently. But really, she lasted a very long time.
I hope that your memory comes back as much as you need it to and that you are able to find coping mechanisms for the rest.
oh, no. what am i going to do?
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