Challenges with problem solving

I'm wondering if people realize that when someone has a memory impairment that if affects so much more than a person's memory. It can affect your comprehension, language skills, difficulty with problem solving and so much more! An example of how I recently had trouble with my problem-solving skills happened last night. I wanted to use my “foot bath”. After I put the water and lavender soak in, I tried several times to use the bubble feature, but I think that I had too much water in it. The water level was too high so the bubbles coming out of the foot bath. I think that I poured the water out several times. Why is it that more than twelve hours later, I realized that I could have used this foot bath without the bubbles? Why couldn't I figure this out while I was using it?