Are there any life threatening diseases that could cause memory loss ?

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Diseases Causing Memory Loss?

I have a friend who keeps forgetting things as simple as what month it is. This has been going on for years now and it seems to be getting worse. For example, if you ask her something and then literally 10 seconds later she is doing something COMPLETELY different.

She is an A+ student and now she can’t even remember what paper the teacher said to do one minute after he said it. For instance, Mr. Karmaten said to take out our social studies book and she asked Dylan what paper he said to get. He didn’t say anything about a paper! She is really zoomed in class, but she is like a mini Einstein! You could ask her a simple question and she’d detail the answer.

Sometimes she gets dizzy when she walks but I never thought anything of it. Then just last week, on like a Wednesday, she didn’t look to well and she looked pale. This was just in the morning. At lunch she said she didn’t feel good so she didn’t eat breakfast or lunch. she said she felt that way after she ate the night before.
On the way to choir. She was walking with me to the drinking fountain and we were talking. Then out of nowhere she was on the floor! She had fainted! It took the principal, school nurse, choir director, two secretaries, and an L.A. teacher and hour to say that she fainted because she didn’t eat anything, when this whole thing started the night before, AFTER SHE ATE!!!!!! I still think that it was something else. She’s my best friend and I think something is seriously wrong with her but the thing is, is that I feel like i cant do anything about it.
If this helps, she is at age 12. She has constant memory loss and it is not just ordinary and it is not a stage. if it was a stage, why has she been going through this for years? Her brain is a roller coaster, half the time she is super genius, the other half the time she is a mentally challenged child.
What I want to know is what are some diseases that cause memory loss? is it a brain tumor or what? please help me.

Medicare fraud and abuse—?

Drug abusers and alcoholics are the ones who have depleted the Medicare system.
Those life styles were their own choices, which in turn caused health problems. Medicare should never have approved drug abusers and alcohol abusers for benefits—after all, most have not worked and never paid any towards Medicare. That’s where the abuse in Medicare is —those folks have not even paid into the Medicare system (or very little). Then you take someone older who has worked and paid into Medicare for years and years–and Obama is wanting them to choose hospice instead of treatment (which they paid for remember?). But its ok to take all their money they paid into the Medicare system and give it—free of cost—to drug users and alcoholics, simply because they are younger?

BoredinVA–I wrote that the elderly have paid into Medicare for years and years. I bill Medicare for hospital claims and I’ve seen it over and over, young people who can’t work or hold a job due to addictions, yet they qualify for Medicare—AND the qualifying diagnosis???? You guessed it—alcoholism or drug addiction. Those diagnosis should not qualify for Medicare, especially if they’ve never paid for Medicare.

After Democrats cut 500 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse from medicare why can’t republicans leave it alone?

Health Care Reform already fixed medicare. Hands OFF Repubs
Have you idiots even read the reforms? One is removing duplicate paper work and the other is allowing certain hospitals pool resources to get better treatment costs.