Name: I can't remember yesterday... [CC]
Uploaded: 2020-04-15T17:50:41.000Z
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Hi, I'm Jessica, and that's the one thing I never forget. So today, I was going to do a hair tutorial and

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What not but I feel kind of pants and those take lot of energy so instead. I thought I would sit down and

How I can't remember yesterday or the day before and I'm not entirely sure what day it is today?

so I have a disability that affects my nerves and my muscles and

My hearing and various other things and causes a lot of fatigue

Which then affects memory now even though I was born with this condition

I wasn't actually diagnosed until I was 17 when my paralyzed both of my arms for a year and a half

And they rushed me into hospital. I had a whole load of procedures to check

So it can be a variety of things and one thing they checked to make sure it wasn't was a brain tumor and to do

That they had to take my spinal fluid to a lumbar puncture

Which is where they put a needle into your back and suck out some of your spinal fluid

the fluid that goes around your spine and then up around your brain and

But they hadn't realized that they left holes

And the rest of my spinal fluid leaked out through these holes into my body just not great then your brain is effectively like

Dying so although I'd previously had a few memory problems

Not anything really big you know being when I was very tired. It was quite hard to remember things

Oh my memory. Oh dear because parts of my brain

because they are so dehydrated not all of it which is good

Really part of the bit that no longer worked is the section that makes very short term

Memories so you have different types of memory you've got your long term memory

Which is you know you're thinking back to your childhood?

It's the deeply ingrained stuff that weirdly when you're super old

That's the only stuff you can remember like my grandfather started speaking

Swedish when he was over 90 because that there's memories that come back, but your midterm memory which is the stuff?

That's like you know hanging around um, but the last year the last few months

Things have been going on so you can probably remember that quite well what you're doing last month

And then you've got your short-term memory

which is right now this minute remembering what you did earlier this morning what you had for breakfast and

That's the part of my memory. It just doesn't it just it's not great

It's not great so while I know where I live

I know who my wife is I know that we're married the things that I have difficulty with are

for instance I will put my phone down and then I will have absolutely no clue

Where it is if you can imagine everyone gets that thing where they walk into the kitchen and think oh?

Why why did I come in here the reason for that is something to do with the threshold. It's because you've changed place

You've gone into a different room and your brain has switched track thinking now

We're in the kitchen so you can't quite remember the thought that you had in the hallway about why you wanted to go

Into the kitchen and that's pretty common it happens a lot

thought when I'm standing in the hallway of why I need to go in the kitchen it isn't just that I forget it when I

Enter the kitchen and it can then be remembered it's that it just is gone

Create that memory and then stick it in my brain if a memory is created. I often have a lot of difficulty with discerning exactly

When that memories from so I'm looking for something say my compact mirror

And I have a very clear visual memory of using my contact mirror

Inside a taxi sitting the back of a taxi that's great, but is that memory from earlier today?

Is that why I can't find it did I leave it there in the taxi?

How was I in a taxi anyway, or is that memory from

yesterday, and I did use my compact mirror, and then I brought it home, and then I put it somewhere within my home.

Or is that memory from last year did I just completely make that memory up. and my compact mirror is in my pocket

As a result of this I obviously then have to write absolutely everything down. I've written down my notes for this video

And I have to write it down as soon as I have the thought the thought is ou

Which I'm now saying in a video so that he knows I do actually think and intend to respond to his messages

Sorry dad so do you have to reply to my father, and I will remember this suddenly write it down

I must write it down this very second because if I do not write it down I

Will move on so my house is littered with

Scraps of paper that I have torn from something and written down the incredibly important message

important things like having to go to the bank or

Hospital appointment remember you have hospital appointment at this time, so I try to keep the pieces of paper once

So I'll know that I then have to look at the piece of paper

To remember the thing that is on but I have to remember to look at the piece of paper to remember thing that is on

But the memory I cope is with visuals with my tiny bits of paper

I have to write lists, and I have a weekly planner and I know

I forget a lot of the time that I have to look at my weekly planner

But I at least know that important things will be on my weekly planner

So if there is a nudge at the back of my brain like

I at least know to go and check my weekly planner

Where hopefully things will be written down and I always write down my weekly planner with the aid of other people

Whether that's my wife Claudia she's  wonderful or Clara who is my assistant in all things and

Okay, oh, yeah, this isn't say that. I can't create new memories that I can't make short-term memories

It's just that they don't all get created. How do I remember people's names?

They are drilled into my brain at least one of them's got to stick

Yeah, okay, probably like three or four times of this time it will stick

So Claudia will talk me through something and be like oh, yeah

This person is now dating this person, and I'm like oh

no Jessica this person is now dating this person

Yeah, it goes on. I'm not gonna do the whole thing for you

But out of those 10 probably three of the times I hear the piece of information oh

Okay right good. That's in there now routine things are the easiest to do however

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I can't remember yesterday... [CC]

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