Dear Eric: I’m writing in response to “No More Reminders” because I actually believed one of the women in our lunch group could have written it.

I have been having lunch with three other women for the past four years with the same issue. This one woman in our group would write the date and location down for our next meeting and despite regular reminders via text and emails, would show up extremely late or not at all without notice. It was really frustrating and impacted the gathering.

Unfortunately, as time went on, we discovered our friend was suffering from some kind of memory loss that she was trying to hide from everyone, her family included. Despite now being under a doctor’s care, it is progressively getting worse.

We try to remember the person she was and what she meant to us fr

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