Lumosity in keeping it postive

When I was in kindergarten, the school gave us IQ tests. I tested in the genius range - enough of us did in the four classes, to make a special class for gifted kids. When I was an adult, in the late 1970s, I used my grade school test score for entrance into Mensa.

Lately, I have found my mental acuity slipping. The year I retired from teaching, I realized I could no longer remember the names of students I’d had in prior years. I have been having word retrieval issues for a while. At first I thought it was menopause - the brain uses estrogen to operate and when that level dips, there is a problem. Also for many years, I would forget information - to the point that I MUST write things down - and I used to be able to remember phone numbers, etc. without any props.

Last year I took a series of tests of mental ability for a medical study on memory loss. The person who conducted the test was impressed - everything was normal, one test above normal and one “superior”. I was jazzed with the results till I thought about them again a few weeks later. NORMAL? My brain used to be far above normal!

I saw an ad for Lumosity - brain exercises - and took their pre-test (to establish a base line). One of the tests was above normal; the other two were dismal (for me).
I bought the two year package - about $100. I’ll see if it makes a difference. I love using the computer, so that part won’t be a hardship.