I’m hearing from my extremely smart, middle-aged women friends that staying sharp is becoming more difficult the closer we get to menopause. One of them is recovering from “chemo brain” (cancer-free for 4 years) and blames her cognitive decline on that, but since she’s in her late 50s, I wonder…
I remember a joke about an elderly woman’s interest in the “hereafter” — as the old saw goes, she goes to another room to get something but once there she asks herself, “What am I here after??”
I’m constantly writing things down these days, but it’s kind of ironic when I have to search for pen and paper and then can’t remember what I was going to write down!
Fuzzy-brain is what I call it. Some days are worse than others. I need to start keeping a journal so I can correlate factors such as a sleepless night or eating certain foods. That way, whenever I feel mentally sharp I can hopefully figure out how to make it happen again!
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