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Carer's sleep [1-25-05]
10 Mar 2005
From:   ParkiePhD (Original Message) |
Sent: 1/25/2005 1:24 PM |
Hi Everyone. I last posted over a year ago concerning some research I am doing into the impact of sleep disruption in carers and was touched by the responses I received.
I have recently had a discussion with a friend whose partner has YOPD. We started talking about things she did, or rather did not do, which she put down to her exhaustion during years of disrupted sleep. Her long list included things like not being able to recall if she'd put particular ingredients into a recipe, being unable to recall the pattern of the previous night, forgetting where she'd put a cooked chicken, being unable to recall a word for something, forgetting why she'd gone into a particular room, minor accidents and many more. These were things we all do but she felt it was so much worse when she was sleep deprived.
It occurred to me that, if I was able to catalogue examples of everyday slips and errors like these it might give me some clues as to what is going on in the brain when we suffer from disrupted sleep.
Please can I ask whether you recall any examples of such things, say over the last 12 months? |
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This sounds like you are describing my life. Yes, I do believe I am worse when sleep deprived--which, is the better part of my life. 
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| From: SLT250 |
Sent: 1/28/2005 8:40 AM |
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My doc is getting ready to do a sleep study on me because my short term memory is frighteningly bad. My kids look at me like I have a third head when I cant answer their questions or I lose my train of thought mid sentence
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| Thanks for these posts. From talking to the few carers I know, I too feel sure there is a serious problem. I think a way forward might be to catalogue specific, real descriptions of memory failure or other kinds of 'slip' - descriptions of actual events, no matter how random or weird they seem. One contact I have had described 'losing' a cooked chicken. She took it out of the oven, went to attend to her husband and could not find the chicken when she returned. It was in front of her but she just couldn't see it. Examples don't need to be this strange, they couldbe everyday lapses. Can you recall anything like this happening to you? | |
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Ever loose the coardless phone and find it in the 'fridge? GUILTY!!
justan indian | |
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I've never lost phone and found it in frige, but I have lost a gollon of milk, and later found it in the coat closet.
Ron Moore
Justan-Indian <johnnie_indian@yahoo.com> wrote:
Carers' sleep
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| From: Justan-Indian |
Ever loose the coardless phone and find it in the 'fridge? GUILTY!!
justan indian | |
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if ive done that, then i havent found whatever it was id misplaced yet
gem | |
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I've lost my head and after looking for it for 30 minutes, found it attached to my head. Ha :>
It's about that bad. Several times a day, I look and look for something ]keys, phone, glasses, cup of coffee, etc] that I JUST had in my hand. SO EXASPERATING !!!!!
Ron | |
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