[Jackie07]

Thank you, Jean. That is very kind of you. My poor hubbie has been taking anti-depressant for over a year now. Think about living with a wife like me - he's constantly worried whenever I am left alone in the house (or anywhere else.)

The deficits are real and dangerous sometimes - during my worse times I had a history of incidents including locking our dog outside in the hot summer afternoon(it was a toy poodle - she appeared at our doorstep in 1993, and I firmly believed that God had sent her to me); leaving the car running in the driveway (possibly over 4 hours) after I got home from work; leaving the toast burning and caused the fire alarm to go off - the fire engines came...
For a while we were worried that I'd be like the girl depicted in "50 First Dates" in which Drew Barrymore was having problems with her 'short-term' memory (she's not able to retain and lock the newly aquired information in her long-term memory.)

If any of my past employers would have kept me, I could have done a much better job after that first year because I would be familiar with the environment. (But then again, I could have burned down the building - another one of our favorite movies is 'Pure Luck' in which Martin Short set out to look for his boss'es missing daughter - an 'accident-prone' girl - who was kidnapped in South America. She caused disasters everywhere she went, including burning down the whole village where the natives had rescued and sheltered her. The kidnappers eventually begged her to leave them.) I have the hardest time in retaining names and procedures (and oftentimes, 'following rules' .

The neuropcychologist thought being a math teacher (what I thought I would pursue since my math ability is still in the superior range) would be too demanding. She thinks being a math tutor will be a more obtainable goal.