On The One Hand...

[poliphilo]

Ailz dropped a pair of tights on the stairs. "Don't forget the pair of tights on the stairs," she said. "I won't," I said. A minute later I was going downstairs and trod on something soft and slippy and my feet went from under me and the papers I was carrying went up in the air as I grabbed for the bannister and somehow or other kept myself upright (though slanted) and avoided breaking my back. 

Reactions: still pretty fast

Short term memory: lousy.

Comments

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

I have that sort of short-term memory myself sometimes.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Do you think we should be worried?

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I dunno about that "should be". I AM worried about my little lapses, which are mostly things I forgave in myself when I was twenty or thirty. I think we are just more sensitive now, watching for signs of dementia. I wonder if this constant vigilance of self might not push people into dementia sometimes? The important thing here is that I am very glad you did not fall. Broken bones in later life take such a horribly long time to heal.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed.

I may well have been just as absent minded when I was a kid. I don't know. Absent mindedness is something to laugh at when you're young.

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

Nah, not yet!! ;-)