After picking up Kate at the end of her PEO meeting, we stopped for lunch. While we were eating, I started to tell her something that I had heard from my dental hygienist this morning. I told Kate she was going to interview someone in Memphis about their experience with embryo adoption. She went on to say there were all these fertilized embryos that were frozen and stored in the clinics where couples had had in vitro fertilization. There is a movement to do something positive about them. I was about to tell Kate more when she had a problem with acid reflux; so I stopped. She had trouble recovering. We ended up leaving and heading home. When we were halfway home, she said that she had recovered. I asked if I could continue my story. She said yes. I said, “So my hygienist was going to interview this couple who has adopted an embryo.” Kate immediately said, “At PEO this morning somebody told me about that. They have a lot of embryos that could be used for people who can’t have a baby on their own.” I am sure she had simply forgotten that I was the one who told her this, not someone at PEO. This is another good example of the deterioration of her short term memory. I am also noticing problems with longer term memory as well, but it is the short term that seems especially weak.
