July 9, 2018
I had my first cognitive testing at the KUMCR Alzheimer's Center. It took 3 hours.
It was stressful but not as bad as my Neuropsychological Assessment in
Florida done on
4-1-17
10-5-17
10-10-17
at three different dates.
You can see the results of my
Florida testing in my book:
I Am Waiting for When I forget I have Alzheimer's. YEAR ONE.
Update:
I had my second cognitive testing at the KUMCR Alzheimer's center. Again it took 3 hours.
Interesting, I thought I did better on the test today than I had on the prior tests.
I was on Namzaric already when I took the first KUMCR cognitive.
I took todays test and had less stress than the prior tests.
My palms were sweating after the first hour which I don't remember having before.
I was a little warm however my concentration was intense.
I have not taken
Atorvastatin 10 mg since
4-2-19.
LAB results off statin replaced with Niacin link
Perhaps that helped me with this test?
I suspect I did better after reading
Moon walking with Einstein.
I learned to build memory palaces by reading the book.
Those techniques are too slow to apply for the short term memory tests.
However I did learn enough about improving my associations with the list of words by being more imaginative in making the quick tags.
I told the tester most people can only remember 5 to 9 words on a list. She seemed surprised.
She would come back to the list periodically and I found each time I remembered more words.
I think I ended up remembering more than 10 on the list on the third effort.
This success has given me hope that I may remain in early phase of impairment for years more.
I hope now to be able to write my YEAR 3 version next year.
In any event after the difficult testing I felt I had done better than one year ago.
I took my second one hour MRI at Hoglund Scan center at KUMC.
Again it was not so arduous this year.
Clearly because I used my two memories palaces to pass the time
I would think of my list of 55 European countries.
Then I would think of my list of top 16 trips.
Finally I would use the relaxation exercise taught by Alzheimer's Society.
I would chant
Sa
Ta
Na
Ma
over and over again.