who you?

Add names to  my can't keep straight list

     Saw an old friend last week and said, "Sandy, how are you doing."  She said, "Fine.  I'm Helen."
     I knew she was Helen!  I have called her Helen every tine I see her.  I know her daughter got married on a beach in the Caribbean, her husband passed away a year ago, and she used to volunteer on Fridays but she went to work and had to move her volunteer day to Thursday.
     But I called her Sandy.
     I only know one Sandy, and I went to grade school and high school with her!       That was a while ago.
     Is it a disease?  A mental conditon?  Laziness??
     I forget names, reverse numbers, and lately if there are four similar products on the shelf, I can't find the right one!
     Damn, aging is not fun.
     So, if I called you the wrong name within the past week, and I know I did one person because I called him by his brother's name, even though I knew he was not his brother, I apologize.
     Life would be so much easier for me if everyone was named George and Martha.
     But somehow I think I would mess that up too.
     Maybe sleep will improve my ability to distinguish between people.
     But I doubt that too.
     By the way, as I write this it is 17 degrees.  17.  Nov. 9.   Could be a long winter.
     Time for the winter blanket.  Nov. 9!!!!