Because of an idiot ‘nurse practitioner’ some years ago, I was given something called “Crestor” (yes, yes, it sounds like toothpaste) to combat what she called ‘dangerously high cholesterol levels”. Within a week I realized I was just stumbling through my days, totally spaced out. Zombiefied, if you will. Google suggested that the latest fad is cholesterol, and the dangers of trying to lower what doesn’t need lowering is high.
I stopped taking the Crestor, and the zombie disappeared, but so did my short term memory. I can remember everything that happened last week, last year, or even 60 years ago. But not what happened yesterday. “Call me when you wake up”, she said, and two days later I got a call from a very unhappy friend. “doctor’s appointment tomorrow” my husband says, and Im puzzled the next day when he says, “you ready?” “?”
Crestor fries the memory cells, especially the short term ones. My current doctor thinks I should take it too, but then he’s part of the problem, not the solution.
So. If I repeat something on one of your blog pages, something I said last week or yesterday, forgive me. I’ll remember when I see it again, and blush deeply. It ain’t stupidity, it’s drug induced. Complain to my former nurse.
That photo up there, btw, is part of our driveway, taken from the top of the hill.
