(urth) My Life With Latro

[brunians at brunians.org]

Better off than this old immigrant I tended to when I was working in
nursing: poor bugger thought he was back in the concentration camp.




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> My father has gotten to the point where short-term and long-term memories
> are completely intermixed.
>  
> Reality is intermixed with fantasy. You never know what he is going to
> say. And forget trying to correct him; he gets very angry when you point
> out, for example, that he isn't the CEO of A.T. & T.
>
>
> F.P. Kiesche III
> "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble,
> scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with
> Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The
> Lensman's Children and TexasBestGrok!
>
> --- On Tue, 3/31/09, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> wrote:
>
> From: Adam Thornton <adam at io.com>
> Subject: (urth) My Life With Latro
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:07 PM
>
> So, someone important in my life is undergoing a medical treatment that,
> among
> its side effects, includes the inability to convert short-term memories to
> long-term.
>
> (This, by the way, may go some way towards explaining, if not excusing, my
> current truculence, which Brunians correctly noted; my fuse is very short
> right
> now.)
>
> It is *fascinating*.  It is also hard as hell to deal with day-to-day (in
> some
> ways harder than the person who can't remember anything), but once this
> phase of my life is over and normality has reasserted itself, I really
> look
> forward to re-reading the _Soldier_ books.
>
> Adam
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