Being an advocate for myself

Today I called the carrier for my cell phone. I've been getting daily calls from a company for another person. I kept telling them that I was not that person and I didn't even know who they were. But the calls still continued for several months.

Today, I tried to get the phone number blocked, but since I have a pre-paid phone that was not possible. The representative said that she would change my cell phone number for free. I told her that I had a problem with my memory, so I wanted to know if I could have a choice of my new phone number. I chose a phone number that I thought might be easier for me to remember.

I asked the representative to please be patient with me because sometimes things can be confusing for me and I sometimes have trouble following directions. Then she gave me directions on how to reprogram my cell phone to the new number. I was talking to the representative on my home phone, so I asked her if she could stay on the line to help walk me through the directions and she said that she would.

I followed her first direction and it failed, so we tried something else and it worked. I thanked her for all of her patience and help.

I don't think that I usually tell someone on the phone who I don't really know, about my memory problems, but for some reason today I did that. I guess I felt that in order for me to be successful, I needed to advocate for myself. I'm so proud of me!

Of course, this turned out very well, but a short time later, I couldn't follow a conversation that my boyfriend and I were having. He said to not worry about it. I told him to wait a minute A short time later I was able to put all of the pieces together in my brain. Then I could figure out what he was talking about. This sometimes happens, but I never seem to get used to it. I just find ways of dealing with it.