Ed and I spent a lot of time yesterday on a verbal trip down memory lane. I talked about trips we’d taken, and focused on those moments I thought were most vivid and might have the strongest emotional context for him. Ed seemed to truly remember some of the experiences I described. After the conversation, he thanked me for talking…
Today, when I saw Ed at the facility where he lives, he was extremely lucid; and it was very painful for both of us. The first thing he said to me was that he felt as though he were in another world. He told me he didn’t want to be around people with his disease (he doesn’t remember that it’s…
Read MoreI’ve always been interested in memory and there was a time in my life when I wanted to do research on the subject. That was until I realized that statistics was a necessary part of the program. So, I altered my career goals—but my interest in memory continued. How ironic that, many decades later, I would be married to a…
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