Hi Marlene,
I too, am doing the menopause thing-- yup it sucks there is no way around that.
At least the ranger doesn't have that to deal with, Thank God. Ranger has a lot of issues with the memory thing.. Some of it is meds, some of it PTSD, some of it is ..
I am sorry to hear it is soooo frustrating for you. ranger gets that way as well and then he gets mad

and yells. The poor dogs come and crawl under my chair lol. He's not yelling at them -- just in general. I usually attempt to determine what the cause is and then go from there.
It would be frustrating to feel like you are losing the information that you are so acustom to recalling.
It sounds like it's not really gone, but a little slow in coming back to you..Hopefully that will be encouraging that it is there.
Any way Hang in there, I wish I could say or do something to help.
Take Care
Donna
aka/wildcritter