FOX6 Web Fix: Memory loss cheat sheet goes viral
TOLEDO (CNN) -- A Toledo woman still struggles with bouts of memory loss, but Joleen Delgado knows she can count on her best friend to help. After all, that friend created a memory cheat sheet for her several years ago when she was in intensive care.
Now, people are talking about the list all around the world.
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It's titled "Read This" and many across the globe are doing just that! From the Huffington Post to Gawker to countless blogging sites and even the UK's Daily Mail Online are all abuzz with this memory loss letter written by what many are calling the ultimate best friend.
"I mean I really just did it because one I didn't want her freaking out and not be able to get a hold of anybody and not knowing what's going on," Kerstyne Kromer said.
Kromer put together a thoughtful yet witty memory cheat sheet for her best friend, Delgado, who suffered severe short-term memory loss at the hospital back in 2011 due to a medication mishap.
"We've encountered a lot of like walls in my medical care and to kind of have some people being really encouraging and saying 'Hey, we care about you guys,' has been pretty nice," Delgado said.
Delgado continues to struggle with short bouts of memory loss and posted the old letter on a thread discussing this issue -- and as they say, the rest is history.
"I started calling Kerstyne like crazy like 'dude you gotta get up because it's like everywhere,'" Delgado said.
The cheat sheet's popularity can be attributed to its playful answers to Delgado's most commonly asked questions.
"I wanted her to be like reading it and laughing and not totally nervous and scared so I tried to inject a little bit of humor into it," Kromer said.
The one thing that's tickling most bloggers was Delgado's constant fascination with the hospital floors.
"So I tried to like mention that because she did she kept texting me that same thing. She kept mentioning it while I was there and I was like the floors are not that cool," Kromer said.
"Apparently they have really nice floors and apparently it was very important to me and I have no idea," Delgado said.