The surgical memory
Updated On: 04 August, 2024 06:52 AM IST | Mumbai | Dr Mazda Turel
When senior citizens forget, we attribute it to old age. When they miss a step repeatedly, it’s what else, but wasting bones! In medicine, assumptions can be counter productive
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I have come all the way from the suburbs for him,” Mahrukh aunty told me, pointing to her husband who was being manoeuvred by an attendant into my office on a wheelchair. She wore a floral scarf knotted under her chin and a simple, beige dress. He wore a big smile, typifying the oblivion of why he was here. For having lived to more than 80 years, he was robustly built: broad shoulders, steel frame, firm handshake. He was 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighed 110 kg.
“He is forgetting everything,” his wife started. “Can’t remember what he has eaten for breakfast, can’t remember the names of relatives who come to visit, and now he is even forgetting things of the past such as the name of his school, college, or where he worked,” she gave a detailed description of his memory impairment. “Do you remember your wife’s birthday?” I asked Rustom uncle, trying to engage him. There was silence. He stared at me blankly for a few seconds and burst out laughing. She gently stroked his forehead trying to calm him down. I can guarantee that no other wife in the universe would have had that reaction. “This is his behaviour to most questions,” Mahrukh aunty informed me of his plight. “Doctors tell me that this is Alzheimer’s and that he has to live with it,” she lamented.
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