One Question Out Of 20

Over at Barbara's (Mastersblynn) she has a "20 Questions" thing which looks very interesting.  I'm just answering the first question now, maybe finish tomorrow.

1. A month before it happens,you're told you're going to lose your memory so how do you prepare for it and do you attempt to regain what you've lost?  I'd use my brain.  Literally.  Knowing the powerful connection between memory and our senses, I'd ask my family to videotape me doing all the things I enjoy.  Eating my favorite foods, sniffing flowers I like, playing my piano, and I'd make sure they videotaped themselves, talking and interacting with me on that tape.  I'd involve all my senses so that when my memory failed, I would view this tape to know which foods to taste - that would help revive a memory, and what flowers to sniff - again, helping strengthen my memory; and I'd listen to the voices on the tape, putting them with the faces and making connections, so that when I saw those people (who are actually my family) I would remember that tape and the sounds of their voices.  The power of the brain, this incredible muscle, this organ like no other with the ability to actually contemplate itself (that astonishes me all the time), I'd use it all I could because it's a medical fact that memory improves with use, just as the brain does.  I'd make those neural synapses till I dropped from exhaustion, and this is how I'd regain my memory, bit by bit.  Everything I've ever seen and done is imprinted on my brain and in my memory.  Should I ever lose it, I could get it back the same way.