We all misplace things from time to time, but this is ridiculous! Over the past week I’ve lost a winter jacket that never leaves my home unless I’m wearing it, so where could it be? My wife and I have looked in every conceivable location, but no jacket has been found.

If this were the only lost item, I could learn to live with the loss; however, there’s more. One of my favorite blue wool shirts is also missing and I like wearing it when the temperature is low. For example today’s temperature when I got up about 5 AM was -2.2 f. I know the shirt would feel good today. Again, we’ve searched, but no shirt.

I’ve been working on creating shorter segments of my appearance at a Diabetes Camp for adults last September. I’ve been working at the studios of CTSB-TV in South Lee, MA. I’m a volunteer with this community cable station and I used their equipment to record the event. To view the complete video (55 minutes), please visit http://vimeo.com/30083339. Given the length of this video, I’m nearly complete on breaking it into 2-4 minute segments by topic and will let my readers know when these shorter segments are available. As you might expect, I had a folder with many notes relating to my video editing experience and that’s the third item that I’ve lost. I backtracked on my travels on the day after I’d been to the studio, but no folder. Where can it be?

Finally, I did misplace one of my good leather gloves and in frustration gave up my search after looking in many places and making phone calls to places I’d been on the day the glove disappeared. Later that day, I came home from the studio and to my great surprise, the glove was on the shelf by our front door. I immediately knew that my wife had found the glove. Later she told me it had become mixed up in a basket of slippers we keep near our front door for use by our guests. So, I’ve got 1 of the 4 missing items back.

I’m upset by all of this and know that being upset raises my sugar level, so I need to let these items go. I wonder if I’m just getting old and forgetful? Is this related to my diabetes in any way? As I ponder reasons for loss, I’m surmising that I’m probably not paying attention to the details of my day to day activities.

Please comment on your experience with losing things.