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Staph

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1. When I turned 65,

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 02:47 PM

Wednesday

my primary care physician gave me one of those cognitive tests. That was seven years ago - she has never had to repeat the test. My mother was given the test in her eighties, as I don't think it existed before then or wasn't a suggested test for seniors. She is now 102 - she has never had the test again!

If you are getting it annually, or even monthly (?), you have cognitive problems.

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