My godmother's got short-term amnesia after an aneurism
It's fucking hilarious.
My nana says things like "Oh, Am, could you remind me to take out the bins later?" and she juts her bottom lip out and goes "Are you being fucking funny?" but she's only messing about.
She loves playing charades but does Little House on the Prairie, Jaws, Brookside, and I Have Nothing (by WhitneyHouston) EVERY time.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:17, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

haha win
I don't know how bad it is, although she's travelling alone so I would assume it doesn't get in the way of day-to-day activity.

I'm not allowed to make her watch Memento though.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:23, Reply)

Haha
We'd rather not let her travel alone. She has frontal lobe damage so it also affects her inhibitions, so she likes to talk to strangers and is a bit trusting. So not only could she forget where she's going, but she culd also be taken advantage of. She occasionally gets the bus a couple of stops, but she got lost last August Bank Holiday and it was too stressful.

Her SuperSkill after surgery was linedancing. It's hardly a bionic eye, but it'll do.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:26, Reply)

That's the thing, I don't know how bad it is
apparently it was after suffering meningitis as a child, so she's had it for a long time, but I don't know how bad it is. Her family have only just mentioned it so I can only assume that means it's not like Memento bad or anything.

She wants me to take her round all the cathedrals and historical sites in Manchester, I'm wondering if I can just walk around for a couple of hours and then tell her she's seen them hehe
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:29, Reply)

Haha, just get a rolling wall of scenery
Like in Scooby Doo
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:31, Reply)

I'm imagining that rattly drum sound
like you hear when cartoon characters run.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:33, Reply)

Hahahahah

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:34, Reply)

yeah fuck the cathedral
let's go down to old Mr Willikins' factory!

Jinkies! A clue!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:37, Reply)

Pull your mask off
And within five mins she'll have forgotten anyway.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:39, Reply)

*runs*
Like this
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:40, Reply)

I'm at work
so I can't listen to that, sorry
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 9:46, Reply)