Polio-related problems

[larryjkueneman]

In 1949, at age 17, I contracted polio. Just one year later, at age 18, I began to notice a couple of things I live with today. One was that in verbal speech I would forget nouns (names, etc.). The word forget is used here as common one, but here it is an error. The fact is, I would fail to recall the word. There was nothing wrong with my memory. Only a few minutes later the word would come back, and even today, at age 86, this is the case. The memories are intact and vivid. It is just in attempting to recall the memory that is a problem. Perhaps this is also your porblem.

I am keenly aware that medical literature does not separate memory and recall. They all seem to consider a failure to recall as a failure of memory. Sorry guys, in my case, the entirety of the memory is there, including smell.