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Regaining My Number Processing Ability |
My Father had a small construction business, and whether from aptitude or from use he had a great facility with numbers. On the job site or doing the administration of the business he was always tumbling numbers. He made little use of a basic calculator and this was well before computers. His avocation was trading the stock market, so he used his number memory and his ability to do math in his head in almost all parts of his life. However by the end of his life he was unable to do simple addition of single digit numbers.
As for me, my undergraduate degree was in Actuarial Science, my graduate degree in Accounting. I started my professional career in public accounting, became a CPA and ultimately became a floor trader on a futures exchange. Numbers and the ability to manipulate numbers have been an important part of my life. I left trading and moved to an administrative position, which does require the use of numbers, but not as constantly as trading.
In 2007 at the age of 59, I noticed it was taking longer for me to process numbers; the processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division were slowed. By the beginning of 2008 when I would look at two, three or four numbers and try to combine them, it was as if I had reached into a blank hole. It had started as merely slow processing, but ultimately I was drawing a blank. I had not a clue as to the answer. It was as if I was trying to read a foreign language, but had not a clue as to how to decipher the words. I saw them, I recognized them, but the combination was unavailable to me.
I found this quite disconcerting, if not frightening. A calculator could have been the solution, however the loss of “processing power” which had been a source of some pride, concerned me greatly. It was as if I had holes in my brain, a part of me was gone. The memories of my Father haunted me. Was I to follow him?
I asked Sheng Li Wang if he could help me with my number memory. After I described the problem, he agreed to try. My treatments were twice weekly acupuncture and energy work, and herbal supplements. The work was sometimes delayed because of cold or flu or my travel schedule, but we persevered. After several months I realized my ability to process numbers had substantially returned. It had returned gradually and quietly. I might have missed its return because it had been part of me, something which seemed normal, the way it should be, except I had several vivid memories of times I had not been able to process numbers. Now in similar situations I realized, I could reach out and find the answers, go through the process. I cannot say I am as fast as I was when I was 30, but my experience is when I ask for a process, it happens. I no longer look at two or more numbers and pull a complete blank.
I have regained what I consider to be an important part of who I am. If it is not noticeable to the outside world, it is very noticeable and measurable to me.
Robert Buck Haworth
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