OLD FARTS ON THE LOUNGE.....are you a victim of CRS?

[old mark]

Can't Remember Shit.

I was trying to recall the name of a running back for the Eagles, and I know it, and I know it will come back to me, but right now it's like a block - I just can't remember. I find this happens more as I get older,maybe since 55 or so, but also more since I had serious surgery. I have noticed several things over the years since that I blame on a raction to the anesthesia or the proceedure itself.
Or maybe it's just my nearly 62 year old brain rotting happily away or maybe suffering the delayed effects from smoking all that great pot back in the 60's that yu young people will never see the like of.


Brian Westbrook!!!!

Good job, brain!


mark
:freak:

[TZ]

1. A friend of mine about your age

Used to DJ and teach dance...the name of his business was CRS ..he told people it meant "Country Rhythym and Swing" but that's not what it really meant...;). Somewhere I have a tshirt with CRS on it...

[old mark]

3. I see your sig line - it could mean

Cowboys really Suck!


:rofl:

mark

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I was going to post something but I can't remember what it was.

And then I'm going to go into another room to do something but I won't remember what I was going to do when I get there.

The pot really was good in those days, wasn't it?

[old mark]

4. VO, one morning when I was still working I was a few minutes late

and could not find my keys. Looked everywhere, finally realised I had them in my left hand....

That's when I knew......something, but I'm not sure what....

:yoiks:

mark

[fizzgig]

21. i've done that with my keys and cell phone

at least i haven't progressed to panicking about not being able to find my glasses when they're on my face

[latebloomer]

39. How about when your glasses are on your head?

That's me. :silly:

[laylah]

43. ...

:P

[Droopy]

5. I used to drive for a trucking company called CRST

Cedar Rapids Steel Transport, but more commonly known as Can't Remember Shit Today.

[Bertha Venation]

6. CRS sucks.

So does aging on the body. I once heard someone say that everytime she bent over to tie her shoes, she thought, "what else can I do while I'm down here?" LOL

Sucks, mark. :hug:

[old mark]

8. BV, Better than the alternative, about the only good thing about it.

Death seems pretty fuckin boring and long term, too....Don't see much point to it, really....:boring:


mark

[yy4me]

7. Wait until you are 67, that's when the real fun starts.

I have a list of to do's on my kitchen counter that I update daily.. Each day I do some of the stuff and transfer some to the next day. I'm not senile, do not suffer from any kind of dementia but the good old short term memory is sometimes shot to heck.

[old mark]

25. What's really wierd - I used to be a musician - I'll wake up at 3AM

and I'll remember the words to an entire song I haven't thought of in 30 years. Usually crap, too.



mark

[sarge43]

9. Oh hell yes. I love walking into a room, then asking myself,

":wtf: am I doing in here?"

On the other, it is rather blissful at times not to have a dozen things yapping away in the noggin.
If I can't remember it, it ain't that important.

[Redstone]

10. Me, too. But the four concussions helped that happen. And the ADD.

Redstone

[sarge43]

13. Four concussions. Ouch.

You should ignore the freep trolls and stop banging your head on the desk. Worked for me.

[Redstone]

14. Oh, no, I actually ENJOY the freep trolls. They're fun to play with!

Redstone

[old mark]

29. You might want to wear a helmet.

I had at least one concussion, probably two. But I really blame it on the anesthesia from my bypass surgery - maybe on the heart-lung machine...was on there for a few hours they told me...


mark:crazy:

[Redstone]

50. Oh, my wife doesn't let me do the stupid stuff I used to, so I'm safe these days.

Redstone

[abq e streeter]

11. As I always say ( when I remember to)- I paid good money for that memory loss

might as well use it

[Redstone]

15. Great phrase! (Whatever it was that you said.)

Redstone

[abq e streeter]

27. Did I say something?

Hi Redstone---I hope your health situation is/has been improving ( hey, I remembered). Memory 's a funny thing. I can still listen to the first 3 seconds of some song that made it to #34 on the charts for 2 weeks in 1964, and tell you the title and artist, but can't remember why I left my bedroom to go the living room 10 seconds ago. On edit; just noticed Old Mark's post about remembering the words to a song he hasn't heard in 30 years; same thing sort of...I guess the moral of the story is that us old musicians just... uh...forgot what I was gonna say.

[Redstone]

49. Us old musicians remember the old songs because we're musicians...that goes deeper into

the soul / psyche (and stays longer) than the damn sunglasses or whatever we went into that damn room to look for.

I honestly believe that the talent can be there or not, but if you're a musician, you're a musician, born that way.

Redstone

[rug]

12. Larry Holmes!

I got lost in Easton last might and I was trying to remember who was from there. Your post just jogged my memory.

I will not discuss how I got lost.

[old mark]

22. rug, you just jogged a memory - I saw Larry Holmes fight an

exhibition in Allentown many years ago, after he was past his prime.
He was still big, in good condition, and he was the absolute fastest boxer I ever saw. I could not even visually follow his gloves. He was not able to sustain this for long, but you could still see glimmers of what he was - he must have been a hell of an opponent.


mark

[rug]

32. I was on my way back from Allentown.

He was a good fighter but so different from Ali. It was a sad day when he beat Ali.

[TK421]

51. You got lost in Easton? how?

;-)

[femmocrat]

16. This has been happening to me since age 40!

I have found that if I do things the same way, in the same order, all the time, it helps.

For example... if I park in a different part of the mall or supermarket parking lot, forget it. I will be calling mall security to drive me around to find my car! LOL

I also make lists like crazy.

[Lex]

19. Yeah, after 40 I really did notice the instant recall of names of things

decreased. I will think of it after a few minutes, but it sucks to have delayed recall when I used to be able to remember most anything anytime and recall it instantly.

[Jamastiene]

17. I have Early Onset CRS.

I'll be 39 this August and I've already been suffering with CRS for several years now.

[old mark]

23. Well, OK - I feel beter now....

don't even remember being 39.



mark

[Xipe Totec]

18. I'm not sure

I can't remember shit anymore.

[UTUSN]

20. I just inserted "whassername" in a post about a well known t.v. host

I can't think of her name. You know, the Good Morning America person, rival of Bahbwah WAHWAH, spouse of Mike NICHOLS, Miss Teen Age America, aide or intern to NIXON. I can remember everything about her right now except her name.

And you're asking?!1

[JitterbugPerfume]

24. I got it bad

and that ain't good!

Do you go through the alphabet trying to remember names?:think:



by the way--I know why they call old men OLD FARTS :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Gormy Cuss]

35. !!!

:rofl:

[Iggo]

26. Oh, yes yes yes.

I'm 47 and I used to be a member of the Live Fast Die Young crowd.

Somewhere in my mid 30's I noticed I didn't remember people's phone numbers off-hand anymore.

And it was all downhill from there...lol.

I also suffer from 2 forms of CSS: Can't See Shit, and Can't Shit Sometimes.

Ain't growing old wonderful? And of course, as posted by others above, it beats the shit out of being dead.

Just keep on swingin, Mark. And remember the words my older sister tells me at times like thesae: "Rejoice, Little Brother. It only gets worse!"

:hi:

[ccjlld]

31. Try combining the CRS and CSS

(Can't See Shit) I hate bi-focals, so I have a tendency to take my glasses off several times a day to read something. Then I spend the next 20 minutes looking for them cause I can't remember where I left them and I can't see them when I'm looking for them!

[Iggo]

36. Oh mercy.

That sounds like fun...not!

:rofl:

[msanthrope]

42. I got red-rimmed glasses so I could see them.

Think Tina Fey meets Sally Jesse Raphael. Ah, the indignities of age...

[Missy Vixen]

28. I have CRS as well

I'm looking down the barrel of the big 5-0. Ewww.

I discovered that one's eyes start to go five minutes before one turns 40. I still hate wearing my glasses.

There are some interesting symptoms for women around this age as well. Grrrrr.

One benefit: There is nothing on this planet that can induce me to spend time with people I don't really like anymore.

[Iggo]

37. Damn. You got that right, Missy.

My circle of friends has become a point. (As in I have exactly one friend now...lol.)

[yy4me]

44. Your description has hit home, My circle has also become

become a point. I never thought of it in those terms but it an apt description. Sad but it is true.

[GOPisEvil]

30. Wilber Montgomery!!

I'm only 40 and I have CRS. Does that mean I'm old? x(

[Arkansas Granny]

33. I've always liked Andy Rooney's take on memory and aging.

His theory is that when you reach a certain age you know so many things that your brain is full. Therefore, anytime you learn something new, something old has to go to make room for it. Considering how often my kids tell me "Oh, Mom, don't you remember the time. . .", I must be gaining new knowledge at record speed. Woo hoo!

[spinbaby]

34. There's stuff you can take for that

I forget what it is.

[old mark]

41. I think I took too much stuff to begin with.......nt

[rrneck]

38. Sorry... what was the question? nt

[Beam Me Up]

40. I'm noun challenged.

And, I disagree that the pot was better way back then than it is now.

But I come from a long line of airheads. My mother, the only person I know who read Finnegan's Wake from cover to cover while watching soap operas, was known to loose her knitting. She had (deceased now) this habit of multitasking from her Americana rocking chair: Read, knit and watch TV. One time, after having torn the living room apart looking for it, she found her knitting right where she left it: in the refrigerator right next to the Milnot with which she creamed her coffee.

Now, me, I'll forget the names of my best friends, especially in a situation where I have to introduce them. One time, although this was some time ago, as I went to sign for a credit card purchase, I couldn't remember my own name. It is a bit confusing because I was named "Frank," because at the time my mother was pregnant with me, her mother was dying of TB (obviously this was some time ago) and she indicated that she'd always wanted a grand child named "Frank." No one else in the family liked the name, though, so they named me Frank but called me Michael. On the first day of school when the teacher called roll for the first time I didn't respond to the "Frank Wells" call. Of course she knew who I was, having taught both my older sisters. So she looked right at me and said, "What's the matter, don't you know your own name?" This brought me to tears and all the other kids to laughter. So, perhaps its a form of trauma. I've been dissociated ever since.

But otherwise my memory works fine. Why, I can remember all the way back to the womb!

[DarkTirade]

45. Hell, I went straight from puberty to senility.

Which is why I've never done any drugs. I started getting forgetful in high school.

[Lil Missy]

46. I call them brain farts. I can't remember what I ate yesterday anymore.

:hi:

[Blue Diadem]

47. Mine began in my mid 40's, after a heart catheterization.

It coincided with the heart cath I had done after experiencing severe chest pain. The Dr's told me it was stress & depression blah blah. It got worse over several months and then we found our newly installed water heater(installed the week prior to my hospital stay) had been leaking carbon monoxide. Age and the big M have not helped it. I joke about upgrading my memory and defragmenting my brain but darn, it drives me nuts sometimes.

Include me as a member of the CRS and CSS club.

[TexasLady]

48. Why did I decide to post on here?

I forget.

[Dammit Ann]

52. Hi sweetheart and yes.

My thirty seven years have a few memory holes.
I've had a shitload of fun inflicting them on myself, though!