M – Memory / Mood: This tests whether the patient can recall both distant and recent events.( 9)
I am going to go ahead and check this box for a number of reasons. In your first book, you appear to have forgotten the mode and order in which you created everything. In the first chapter you recall creating everything from water( Genesis 1:2, 6-7), whilst in the second chapter, you change your mind and recall creating everything from some dry substance( Genesis 2:5- 6). Further, in the first chapter you remember creating man and woman simultaneously( Genesis 1:27), before which you recollect creating the birds and beasts, whilst in the second chapter, you assert that you made man first, then the birds, beasts and then women( Genesis 2:1-23). Further, in that same book, you tell Noah to take two of every animal onto his boat( Genesis 6:19-22), then you seem to have forgotten that you made this request and after he had finished circumnavigating the entire globe, which was no small feat for a man of his age, you told him that you wanted seven of the clean animals and two of the others( Genesis 7:1-5), thereby inconveniencing poor old Noah.
Although there are many other instances I could draw from, I will bring just one more example to your attention. In the New Testament, you, acting in the persona of your son, are enjoying a meal with your disciples, two of whom, hound you about where you will be going after you die. Immediately following this, you get mad at them for not asking you where you will be going after you die( John 13:35, 14:6 & 16:5). This, in addition to the previous examples I drew your attention to, indicate that you have trouble remembering events that occurred in both the near and distant past and satisfies this limb of Nelson and Good’ s test.
A – Appearance / Affect: The patient’ s appearance( e. g., dishevelled, sad faces, motor activity) can be helpful in the evaluation.( 10)
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