This past Tuesday, myself along with my classmates we got to go on a field trip, one that we will be making every week from now on. We visited the wonderful people at the Brain Fitness Club, a club in which all of its members live with memory loss. Like any first day at a job, or a school, it was a little awkward making introductions and finding things to ask them. But after a while we just engaged in idle chit-chat about our interests and our families. For the sake of confidentiality, I will only be using the first letter of the names of the people I was so lucky to exchange words with. We sat in a round table format with R, P, S, and B. We certainly weren't the loudest bunch, that's for certain but we did share a fair amount about ourselves despite it being our first time meeting. R and P both love to watch football. B played soccer in their youth but mostly has played and written piano music. And finally, S has a wonderful sense of humor and continues to dance as they have for most of their life. When hearing them talk you could almost automatically get a sense as to how their memory loss affects them, but despite that they are really quite unique like everyone else. I can't wait to go back and find out more about them.
Until next time.
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