memory

Before the stroke, when I read something, I would get a sense of it being resident in long term memory. That is now gone. I still read things only to find later I have no recall of them. It must be said however, that the more I tried to remember, the better the memory has gotten. Do not be in a hurry to rehabilitate your memory, thats frustrating. Try each day to memorize something. Start simple, say with objects, and work out to relationships of objects and complex verbs. I had the advantage of University pushing me, but others can avail themselves of those around them for this. It took months to get the days of the week in order, so that when I laid down to sleep, I knew what day tomorrow was going to be called. After 7 years it seems a simple thing to say, at the time it frustrated me to no end. Even now my short term memory is very bad. Like I have said, do not be in a hurry, it is not a race!