I'm getting old. Yeah. But, it comes with a price...memory loss. This isn't easy to deal with when you have to do ten thousand things a day just to keep going. I've written a post about it on my blog (<a target="_blank" title="" href="<A HREF="http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/">http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/</A>"><A HREF="http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/">http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/</A></a>). Check it out if you're curious. Also, what do you all do to keep on top of your LIST?<br>
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How Do You Remember Everything You Have To Do?
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I'm getting old. Yeah. But, it comes with a price...memory loss. This isn't easy to deal with when you have to do ten thousand things a day just to keep going. I've written a post about it on my blog (<a target="_blank" title="" href="<A HREF="http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/">http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/</A>"><A HREF="http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/">http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/</A></a>). Check it out if you're curious. Also, what do you all do to keep on top of your LIST?<br>
I'm getting old. Yeah. But, it comes with a price...memory loss. This isn't easy to deal with when you have to do ten thousand things a day just to keep going. I've written a post about it on my blog (<a target="_blank" title="" href="<A HREF="http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/">http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/</A>"><A HREF="http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/">http://www.sickandhappy.com/tonic-and-me-traversing-the-winter-from-hell/</A></a>). Check it out if you're curious. Also, what do you all do to keep on top of your LIST?<br>
mamaScarlett
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HAH! lol<br>You sound like me. I can't wait to read your blog!<br><br>Well, having a 4 yr old and a 6wk old+Cf=amnesia. I have been thinking the same thing as you lately. I've been forgetting things too. I actually forgot my enzymes the other day, and that might not sound like a big deal to some but I have't done that in YEARS. It hurt like heck the next day.<br>I thought last night to myself-why do I feel so stressed? (besides the obvious, duh) And then a lightbulb went off-a big obvious duh lightbulb...other moms of crazy toddlers and newborns don't have to do 2 hrs of chest pt per day. Ah, thats it!!! Those are the 2 hours per day that the mom uses to brush her teeth, maybe shower and maybe even think about a nice soothing cup of coffee in the afternoon.<br>Anyway, I digress. The only way I 'do it' is by making lists. I was always a lister, even before kids. My husband always laughs at me bc if you dig around the house you'll probably find like 6 years of old notebooks with my daily lists. I make a list each morning. I write all the things I want to get done in the day, and a star next to things that absolutely must get done. AM/PM therapy, med, vits, laundry...etc. If all the musts get done thats a sucessful day. Since the baby was born the list thing hasn't been religious bc it just can't be right now. Every day is different. But I'll get back to my old ways as soon as I can.<br>I also just try to keep a simple routine. Nothing about my life is simple of course, but I really try to think ahead, plan the week out best I can, plan our meals out, things like that. It saves time, it adds up. Simplifying our home has helped too, being organized. I've accepted that my daughter could definitely have 37 stuffed animals...but she only needs 10. I could have 21 pairs of black shoes, but I only need 2...believe me, having less 'stuff' to care for and clean up saves time day to day.<br>That goes against my natural personality, I've really had to work to get my life and home organized. Now that I have, I actually have alot more time to breathe (no pun intended). <br>The other thing is sleep. I don't get much these days. So I am appreciating even more just how precious it is to the brain!<br><br>
mamaScarlett
Active member
HAH! lol<br>You sound like me. I can't wait to read your blog!<br><br>Well, having a 4 yr old and a 6wk old+Cf=amnesia. I have been thinking the same thing as you lately. I've been forgetting things too. I actually forgot my enzymes the other day, and that might not sound like a big deal to some but I have't done that in YEARS. It hurt like heck the next day.<br>I thought last night to myself-why do I feel so stressed? (besides the obvious, duh) And then a lightbulb went off-a big obvious duh lightbulb...other moms of crazy toddlers and newborns don't have to do 2 hrs of chest pt per day. Ah, thats it!!! Those are the 2 hours per day that the mom uses to brush her teeth, maybe shower and maybe even think about a nice soothing cup of coffee in the afternoon.<br>Anyway, I digress. The only way I 'do it' is by making lists. I was always a lister, even before kids. My husband always laughs at me bc if you dig around the house you'll probably find like 6 years of old notebooks with my daily lists. I make a list each morning. I write all the things I want to get done in the day, and a star next to things that absolutely must get done. AM/PM therapy, med, vits, laundry...etc. If all the musts get done thats a sucessful day. Since the baby was born the list thing hasn't been religious bc it just can't be right now. Every day is different. But I'll get back to my old ways as soon as I can.<br>I also just try to keep a simple routine. Nothing about my life is simple of course, but I really try to think ahead, plan the week out best I can, plan our meals out, things like that. It saves time, it adds up. Simplifying our home has helped too, being organized. I've accepted that my daughter could definitely have 37 stuffed animals...but she only needs 10. I could have 21 pairs of black shoes, but I only need 2...believe me, having less 'stuff' to care for and clean up saves time day to day.<br>That goes against my natural personality, I've really had to work to get my life and home organized. Now that I have, I actually have alot more time to breathe (no pun intended). <br>The other thing is sleep. I don't get much these days. So I am appreciating even more just how precious it is to the brain!<br><br>
mamaScarlett
Active member
HAH! lol<br>You sound like me. I can't wait to read your blog!<br><br>Well, having a 4 yr old and a 6wk old+Cf=amnesia. I have been thinking the same thing as you lately. I've been forgetting things too. I actually forgot my enzymes the other day, and that might not sound like a big deal to some but I have't done that in YEARS. It hurt like heck the next day.<br>I thought last night to myself-why do I feel so stressed? (besides the obvious, duh) And then a lightbulb went off-a big obvious duh lightbulb...other moms of crazy toddlers and newborns don't have to do 2 hrs of chest pt per day. Ah, thats it!!! Those are the 2 hours per day that the mom uses to brush her teeth, maybe shower and maybe even think about a nice soothing cup of coffee in the afternoon.<br>Anyway, I digress. The only way I 'do it' is by making lists. I was always a lister, even before kids. My husband always laughs at me bc if you dig around the house you'll probably find like 6 years of old notebooks with my daily lists. I make a list each morning. I write all the things I want to get done in the day, and a star next to things that absolutely must get done. AM/PM therapy, med, vits, laundry...etc. If all the musts get done thats a sucessful day. Since the baby was born the list thing hasn't been religious bc it just can't be right now. Every day is different. But I'll get back to my old ways as soon as I can.<br>I also just try to keep a simple routine. Nothing about my life is simple of course, but I really try to think ahead, plan the week out best I can, plan our meals out, things like that. It saves time, it adds up. Simplifying our home has helped too, being organized. I've accepted that my daughter could definitely have 37 stuffed animals...but she only needs 10. I could have 21 pairs of black shoes, but I only need 2...believe me, having less 'stuff' to care for and clean up saves time day to day.<br>That goes against my natural personality, I've really had to work to get my life and home organized. Now that I have, I actually have alot more time to breathe (no pun intended). <br>The other thing is sleep. I don't get much these days. So I am appreciating even more just how precious it is to the brain!<br><br>
If you have an iPod, iPhone, or iPad I have found a couple of great apps that help me with remembering all my stuff. There is one called pillboxie that you can put all the names o your meds in and set reminders for the time of the day you take them and then when you do you can check them off the list for the day. This app is free! If you have diabetes there is an app called D Buddy, this one I ended up paying for because I tried the free version and loved it. It let's you keep track of your blood sugar, insulin taken, weight, carbs, blood pressure, water intake, and activity level. It will chart these things out and you can email them to yourself or your docs and you can print them too. I find it a lot easier than trying to write everything down and I can show my docs the correlation between my blood sugar and the amount of insulin I'm taking. I've been using these apps for the last month and I can honestly say I haven't missed any meds or treatments since then!
If you have an iPod, iPhone, or iPad I have found a couple of great apps that help me with remembering all my stuff. There is one called pillboxie that you can put all the names o your meds in and set reminders for the time of the day you take them and then when you do you can check them off the list for the day. This app is free! If you have diabetes there is an app called D Buddy, this one I ended up paying for because I tried the free version and loved it. It let's you keep track of your blood sugar, insulin taken, weight, carbs, blood pressure, water intake, and activity level. It will chart these things out and you can email them to yourself or your docs and you can print them too. I find it a lot easier than trying to write everything down and I can show my docs the correlation between my blood sugar and the amount of insulin I'm taking. I've been using these apps for the last month and I can honestly say I haven't missed any meds or treatments since then!
If you have an iPod, iPhone, or iPad I have found a couple of great apps that help me with remembering all my stuff. There is one called pillboxie that you can put all the names o your meds in and set reminders for the time of the day you take them and then when you do you can check them off the list for the day. This app is free! If you have diabetes there is an app called D Buddy, this one I ended up paying for because I tried the free version and loved it. It let's you keep track of your blood sugar, insulin taken, weight, carbs, blood pressure, water intake, and activity level. It will chart these things out and you can email them to yourself or your docs and you can print them too. I find it a lot easier than trying to write everything down and I can show my docs the correlation between my blood sugar and the amount of insulin I'm taking. I've been using these apps for the last month and I can honestly say I haven't missed any meds or treatments since then!
This may sound bad, but I have been told to let some things slide. It really depends on your health, if you're healthy you should do everything possible to stay that way, but if you're more endstage it might be ok to not do some things, like why take 70 pills a day and be sick to your stomach when you could take 50 of the most important and then feel like eating and living life. That also makes it easier to remember when there's less to do. But again, It's not for everybody and I'm not encouraging people to stop treatments.
This may sound bad, but I have been told to let some things slide. It really depends on your health, if you're healthy you should do everything possible to stay that way, but if you're more endstage it might be ok to not do some things, like why take 70 pills a day and be sick to your stomach when you could take 50 of the most important and then feel like eating and living life. That also makes it easier to remember when there's less to do. But again, It's not for everybody and I'm not encouraging people to stop treatments.
This may sound bad, but I have been told to let some things slide. It really depends on your health, if you're healthy you should do everything possible to stay that way, but if you're more endstage it might be ok to not do some things, like why take 70 pills a day and be sick to your stomach when you could take 50 of the most important and then feel like eating and living life. That also makes it easier to remember when there's less to do. But again, It's not for everybody and I'm not encouraging people to stop treatments.
azdesertrat
New member
Hello! I'm a bit old-fashioned I guess. I'm not too proud to admit I resort to the ol' pen & paper. Yep, I'm a list guy! It helps, believe me. I carry a purse. Yep, a man that carries a purse. What can I say, I'm a 'Hard Keeper' as we say our west. In my purse (among lots of other necessities) is my 'Memory'. I carry an old fahsioned notebook & a pen. If its important, I write it down! I list all my anti-rejection drugs & anything else important. Hope this helps!
azdesertrat
New member
Hello! I'm a bit old-fashioned I guess. I'm not too proud to admit I resort to the ol' pen & paper. Yep, I'm a list guy! It helps, believe me. I carry a purse. Yep, a man that carries a purse. What can I say, I'm a 'Hard Keeper' as we say our west. In my purse (among lots of other necessities) is my 'Memory'. I carry an old fahsioned notebook & a pen. If its important, I write it down! I list all my anti-rejection drugs & anything else important. Hope this helps!
azdesertrat
New member
Hello! I'm a bit old-fashioned I guess. I'm not too proud to admit I resort to the ol' pen & paper. Yep, I'm a list guy! It helps, believe me. I carry a purse. Yep, a man that carries a purse. What can I say, I'm a 'Hard Keeper' as we say our west. In my purse (among lots of other necessities) is my 'Memory'. I carry an old fahsioned notebook & a pen. If its important, I write it down! I list all my anti-rejection drugs & anything else important. Hope this helps!