Funny brain fog story :}

[Lady Lauri]

Okay! Not only do my eyes always look like I am stoned (and not), now I act like it all the time :{
The brain fog, dingyness is endless. Conversations are interesting right now and thankfully people do remind me what I was saying as I give them a blank stare in mid sentence :}
But here's a real winner (wiener!) brain fog moment.
  Finally got in for the total 'female screening/exam' (previous problems checked on, pap test, mammogram set up, labs for hormones checked, etc.) that Shands had asked for. They'd made me a special rush, no wait for 2 hours, appointment and I get the pap, and she say's "now go back to lobby and we'll call you back again'. Well I did go back to the lobby, AND out the door and into the car and drove home!  I get a message "Uh, Lauri, it's urgent you return my call'. I call and nurse say's "uhhh, where'd you go. you know you weren't done, right"??  At THAT moment I remembered and just said "oh sh*t! Yes, I know I wasn't done"! She say's "uhhh, can you come back and finish this?" I said "sure, I'll be right back there"!  I had to go back and finish appointment :{
  I am NOT a dingy woman, but starting to accept the looks I get from dingy moments , LOL.
Luckily, they know I'm in tx, laughed and took me right back again, no wait!
  I won't go into how many times I have walked out of a store and said "uh oh! WHERE did I park??"

                                                                        LL

[mayday557]

Ha Ha Ha !!  That was a great foggy story !
The rest are prtty good too!  I quit drinking coffee since a few weeks before tx.  I drink Coke Classic now when I get up.  My reasoning ?  Its easier to twist open a bottle than to make a pot and I still get my morning jolt.

A freind of mine just taught me how to knit last week.  ME !  Knitting.  I told her things must be getting a little chilly in hell 'cuz it would have been a cold day there before I started that gig.

Now I drive myself crazy tryng to count and remember my stitches.

[shayner]

Got that right. College educated,self employed, yet when I write an e-mail it looks like a 4 year old did it, and my invoices at my shop look like someone fron nasa is writing calculations for a round trip to mars. I even had one of my customers tell me that my work order looked more like a prescription and asked me to explain it to her, had to write a new one carefully as if I were doing a spelling test back in elementery school. At least I can say that with all of the brain-fogginess and bubblehead moments at least I have some moments to look back on and have a lil giggle on it all. Im at week 22 and im almost undetectable, for the most part it hasn't been that bad, yup the worst isnt feelin like you have the flu for 4 months it's listening to yourself talk when your talking to people then watching the expressions on their face when they are just agreeing with yoy when they have no idea what you said. Its like the teacher from snoopy talking.

[Lady Lauri]

   LOL..... I keep starting the d*m coffee and forgetting to put the pot under it! You know what a mess that is! And glad I do not have too many steps here :}
It is wierd, you just feel like so stoned out all day, hate that. Often think like a 10 yr. old in words, etc. There are days I simply won't even try to drive! Too worried I'll hurt someone else going thru a red light or something! I am a very like katerica, organized, control, sensible, common sense type......yet .......huh, where was I going with this???  LOL.

Teuf... I did that!! Borrowed a friends car , RED mind you, kept looking for my big silver truck! Had walked by the red car about 4 times :{ With mine I now press the alarm button on key ring, LOL.

Than I thought I had locked my keys in our rental trunk (was meeting Susan and Paso person for breakfast!), which was pulled directly behind my truck, which means I was stuck ! My son pulled up and I said "get out and give me your keys' and still made it to breakfast! THAN , triple A comes......did you know that when you 'slim jim' into a 2008 Lincoln that it goes into burgler mode , alarm going off, trunk, doors lock down !!?? Cost me $30.00 just for a special key to shut off alarm. An hour of trying to get the key pad code and so on and guess what...keys were not in the trunk! I had dropped walking to my room and were behind a curtain.

  Brain fog sucks ! especially when the people your dealing with have no idea and think your just like that :}
                                                                                      LL

                                                                      LL

[shayner]

I can relate to that Lauri. Im on week 22. I am finding myself waiting for the cofee maker to finish brewing, after 5 min's waiting wondering why im not sippin on a java I realize that I need to put water, a filter and cofee in the thing. I have been doin thing's I cannot believe like forgeting to take steps when walking down the stairs, walking across busy streets on a red light, I am A very well educated, 36 yr old male with no stresses or worries that should make me absent minded. My diagnoses is that clearly one of the side effects of this  interferon treatment is 'bubblehead-osis. To all starting this treatment, be extra aware, ive woken up on the floor from knocking mysekf out going down the stairs thinking i can hover down them. This is not true you need to take the steps, one at a time.

[Teufelhunden]

Too funny!!  Did the same thing with my car. Thought someone had stolen it after wandering the parking lot for 15 minutes and was going in to call the cops when I saw my wifes car. I thought "what was she doing here", then it dawned on me that I was using her car!  Brain fog certainly causes some "blonde" moments!

[katerika]

lol, the best thing is we can laugh. I am a control freak and very detail oriented. On treatment many times i am like a deer in the headlights  Loosing the car in the parking lot has been a ongoing occurance. Its worse that I have a silver Suburu wagon, every other car up here seems to be one. Once I had my husband drop me off at the mall, then I couldn't find him and sat on a bench hoping to get claimed.No luck he didn't know I was missing. I finally found the car.
Thanks for sharing, we all need to laugh more.
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[Forseegood]

Man, I hate getting those pap smear, poked and prodded, all of it...I got an appt lined up next week, maybe reading your post will help me to "remember" to stay there...geez, when they put your boobies into those vices....aiyeeeee, ouchy ouchy!!!! I always imagine how much it would hurt if you were more flat chested...do they have smaller vices? whatever....it hurts!

[FloridaMouse]

LMAO.

Mouse

[GrandmaA]

That's funny. Thanks for sharing. Sounds very familiar and what I went through the previous 8 or 9 months. It has just finally improved since 10 weeks post tx. Yet, some of it is permanent as I am 65 years old. Memory is not the best. My son says I remember what I WANT to remember.