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As my Chiari progressed my children noticed my memory worsening.

One year my husband decided our two daughters were old enough to go and help him do the shopping for my Christmas presents. They were gone several hours and I was in the kitchen making dinner when they got home.

They rushed into the back of the house and wrapped my gifts to place under the tree. After wrapping them my youngest daughter, then four-and-a-half, promptly pointed to each present and told me what they were.

"That's nice honey," I said.  "But you aren't supposed to tell me. It's supposed to be a surprise."

My daughter looked at me with wide eyes and exclaimed, "That's OK Mommy. You will forget before Christmas. You forget everything!"

-- C Jerome

 

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