Dragons' Teeth

[mallorys_camera]

Did an enormous amount of weeding yesterday, and 15 minutes of wrestling with the hose, since the sky, though grey, showed little intention of actually raining. Very little actual planting, and planting is the fun part.

Fuckin' nettles are like those mythological dragons' teeth sown by Cadmus! If you're not nimble enough to pull out the entire root, a thousand new nettles spring up overnight from the mutilated stump of the original nettle.

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Today I am off to the neurologist for a cognition test.

This is something I promised Ichabod I would do after the Wellbutrin overdose debacle in Ithaca last Thanksgiving.

No, I don't think my cognition is hovering anywhere near the dementia zone, but of course, I wouldn't, would I?

And I am at risk, I suppose: Both Jane and Annie, my mother's two sisters, had severe dementia at the end of their lives, and my maternal grandmother (whom I never met) was picked up smeared in feces wandering the trashcan circuit in Miami Beach a few decades back. My mother didn't have dementia, but she was definitely wayyyy eccentric, and maybe she would have developed it had she lived longer.

It's probably not a bad idea to have some sort of baseline here.

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Also, apparently, RTT can perform marriages within the City of Ithaca.

Comments

[asakiyume]

RTT appears to have made that couple very happy! Congrats, unknown couple!

Man, you're already weeding and I haven't planted anything yet. But I'm getting closer. I have seeds and li'l plants.

I'm terrified of cognition tests. I'm sure I'd freeze up and perform TERRIBLY. Or maybe it wouldn't be that i'm freezing up--MAYBE IT'S THAT MY COGNITION IS BAD

[mallorys_camera]

I was terrified, too! But I got like a perfect score on the MoCA, 30 out of 30, which the NP said she had never seen anyone do before. So no dementia. 😀

[asakiyume]

Wohoo! You rock. I will never take one. I'm sure I'd get 14. If I'm lucky.

[mallorys_camera]

Well, I don't think you need to take one, judging from yr Dad—in his 90s and perfectly compis mentis.

There is a significant history of severe dementia in my immediate family, which puts me at high risk for developing it. Dementia is something that seems unthinkable to me, but, of course, it's not. And it's not like I would recognize it in myself. My kids need to know.

[asakiyume]

Yeah, but his mom, my grandmother, had it late in life, and his dad had Parkinsons, so ... (and my mom's family, who knows: everyone dies too early)