zespectre
Flashlight Enthusiast
I'm just venting here out of frustration (and a little shock).
About a year and a half ago I had the third (and final) of a series of serious abdominal surgeries. Not too long into my recovery I noticed something...odd... with my cognition and memory. It was very VERY subtle, but some things I found "duck soup" before were tougher to figure out and random stuff I had well memorized was just gone. Medical "professionals" deemed it "transient post-surgical amnesia" but after over a year I think there is nothing "transient" about it.
Since then I have pretty well "mapped out" the "holes" and in large adapted to my "new brain" but the combination of memory and cognitive issues were enough to utterly destroy my 20 year career as an IT/systems guy because I simply could not keep up with the constant new-tech learning curve (nor could I keep numbers in my memory).
What has been even more bizarre is coming back to CPF and discovering how much I knew and participated in flashlight conversations, and how much of it I simply don't remember. Mostly it's names, models, battery types but I've actually found a few posts, including a thread I STARTED, that I completely don't remember :shakehead
Just about the time I get used to this I stumble onto something else that shakes me up.
About a year and a half ago I had the third (and final) of a series of serious abdominal surgeries. Not too long into my recovery I noticed something...odd... with my cognition and memory. It was very VERY subtle, but some things I found "duck soup" before were tougher to figure out and random stuff I had well memorized was just gone. Medical "professionals" deemed it "transient post-surgical amnesia" but after over a year I think there is nothing "transient" about it.
Since then I have pretty well "mapped out" the "holes" and in large adapted to my "new brain" but the combination of memory and cognitive issues were enough to utterly destroy my 20 year career as an IT/systems guy because I simply could not keep up with the constant new-tech learning curve (nor could I keep numbers in my memory).
What has been even more bizarre is coming back to CPF and discovering how much I knew and participated in flashlight conversations, and how much of it I simply don't remember. Mostly it's names, models, battery types but I've actually found a few posts, including a thread I STARTED, that I completely don't remember :shakehead
Just about the time I get used to this I stumble onto something else that shakes me up.