Welcome to Connect @bono. I sure do need you. You have just the right words to describe my major MCI symptoms, especially the inability to multi-task and/or get big projects done. Do you use any form of messaging to yourself? I have tried sending myself messages, leaving notes on the mirror, or setting alarms to give me plenty of time to make it to my therapy appointments. My Dad went from NCI to dementia to Alzheimer's over a 10-year period.

I used to drive up to give my Mom a break. My Dad would be singing in the bathtub while he played with his bath toys. Someone had to be there or he would do things like turn off all the pilot lights on the stove.

What medications are you using? Which one or ones are the most helpful? I have had the most success with Buspirone for anxiety.

May you be safe, protected and free from inner and outer harm.
Chris

I think I posted suggestions on this string months ago. My main one is that you don't have any cognition to lose, so don't waste any. On clutter in the house or at work (if you're still working), on alcohol, on over-stimulation, on stress. The last is hard, but focus on sensory processing, not merely conceptual processing. Give your right brain a workout, esp if your left brain is balky. Go rest and relax, not fight or flee (parasympathetic, not sympathetic nervous system)--tho ultimately you need both to work together, just with the parasympathetic in the lead.

You know by now that MCI describes cognition that fits somewhere, anywhere, between dementia and that which is appropriate for your (advanced) age. When I first got the label 2 or 3 yrs ago--I forget when!--I thought it was another neuro euphemism, like "borderline" without specifying that I was on the border between average and inferior, not average and superior. But I now realize that the failure to specify degrees of cognitive impairment from mild to moderate to severe is due to the inability to measure cognition more precisely. So there's often room for some patient optimism when it comes to MCI, which, as I hope you know, does not invariably progress to dementia.

And as implied in the preceding paragraph, try to keep a sense of humor thru the process. It helps me re-energize after an incident of inattentiveness or failed memory.

Peace.

Don’t fear or be frustrated with what god has sent you…we are all humans on planet earth & at this age we will ‘have’ or ‘get’ something…no one is perfect. Far from it…embrace it all. Joyfully, Marianne