Uhg I forgot again THE SUPPORT GROUP FOR MEMORY DEFICIENT

I don't have an excuse...I thought it was still light out...I do work nights though, and havent been up but a few hours...but, enough!
I need to go put the chickens up.

Glad they are ok!  BYC is sure fascinating...I get stuck on here alot!!!

F.A.M.M...
You can do a few things to help you.
1- Set an alarm either on your cell phone or wrist watch for the time you usually go put the chickens in for the night.
2- have a friend call you OR you call them at a certain time in the early evening/late afternoon.
YOu can then have them remind you to check on the chickens.

My barn owner does this as she now lives alone and is 77 yrs old. She calls a neighbor every evening to let them know she is ok.
A very good friend AND her daughter call her every morning and they talk while she is getting her breakfast and letting the dogs out.

I sure hope this helps. I have a friend with memory issues. I am his appt'd representative and my DH and I are his and another friend's advocates.

Carol

I have managed to do the same thing a couple of times. So you are not alone. It is hard when your brain doesn't connect. I too have an old brain injury, and most days I don't forget anything. But then there are the days when I can hardly even talk. I have tried to set timers, and any number of other suggestions. Most of those things are simply one more thing to remember when the problem is remembering anything. I was so sad the other day when I found my girls huddling next to the house. The door to the coop had swung shut, and they don't like to stand in the rain. When I found them and opened the coop door, all the girls ran into the coop and I could tell that they were relieved.

Awww shucks, we all do things like that.  After being kicked in the head by a horse,  I have some short term memory issues.  I have to write reminders on post-its.  I even have a label on my steering wheel to remind me to turn off my headights.  I have to triple check myself to turn off the outside water.

Heh, we should start a club of the memory-challenged. I've had some pretty serious head injuries (enough that permanent damage is visible on scans). I forget all sorts of things.

Luckily, my husband has an excellent memory, and he's learned to keep track of me. I can't tell you how many times I've left the lights on for the car, only to have him turn them off, left the hose on, only to have him turn it off hours later. I leave things in random places, and he puts them away in their right places. When I can't find something, I can ask him, and he will know where it's at. I thank him all the time for his patience with me, and he just laughs and says it's lucky I married him so I don't get completely lost!

A body doesn't need a head injury to forget.  I leave the henhouse and head for the house 100 feet away every day.  The entire way, I am repeating to myself "Turn off the hose, turn off the hose, turn off the hose...."  NEVER fails...I get in the house, take off the boots, and remember the hose only when I notice that my kitchen sink has lower water pressure.   Sometimes DH catches it, sometimes not.