Health

“Find” the word. She could describe the word. She’d say something like “the thing on the wall that shows the weeks and dates” when she meant “calendar”.

The memory lapses would usually come up when we’d refer to something we had all recently done, like gone to a restaurant, and she’d argue with us when we said we’d been just a few days ago. Or she would say she hadn’t talked to so-and-so in a long time when we knew she had talked to them yesterday. It reminded me of my younger days when I would blackout after one too many vodkas.