These Two Friends Found A Touching and Funny Way To Deal With Short-Term Memory Loss

Very Sweet! I was frustrated trying to communicate with my 94 year old Aunt Marion who was in the hospital during her last few days of life. She had an oxygen mask on, she could no longer tolerate her hearing aid, couldn't sit up of course, and looked at me helplessly as I spoke to her. Suddenly I realized she was still able to SEE! So I rushed to the nurses station, got some paper and a magic marker, wrote in very large printing what I wanted to say, and held it up to her line of vision. She could answer "yes" or "no" questions and know what the nurses needed to do next. She passed away the next day, but I felt comforted knowing she was able to understand me almost to the very end of her life. Good old paper and black magic marker made our last minutes together meaningful.

This idea is very kikely taken from the movie, "Fifty first dates" where Adam Sandler's character creates a vhs tape for his love, "Lucy" ( Drew Barrymore), who suffers from memory loss. Its a great idea actually.

Basicly, this idea comes from the movie "fifty first dates", in the movie, Adam Sandler's character creates a vhs tape for his love "Lucy" played by Drew Barrymore, who suffers memory loss.

This is so familiar...I write notes for my Dad...I put them on the whiteboard and the same notes on his two calendars. I also typed up a list of our neighbors as he\'s always asking names and what happened to this one or that one. We constantly go through the same conversations that we may have had earlier that day or even weeks prior. The Docs haven\'t given a definitive diagnoses for his memory loss or than the early stages of senile dementia or Alzheimers.