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147426 tn?1317265632

Embarassing Moments from og Fog

Okay, this is an important question, because some people are too embarrassed to talk about it.

What is (are) the most embarassing things that have happened to you because of not being able to think clearly or thinking too slow?

Quix
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199980 tn?1233797404
I would have to say the constant word mix up's.......
one time I refered to swallowing a pill to swallowing a pillow in a fairly large meeting.
I often ask my clients the same questions minutes after already asking them, thank god most of them know about my ms and we just chuckle togeather.
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april
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333021 tn?1207759633
When this all started three yrs ago, major fog.  One day I was on the phone with one of my mother's nurses. I had never met the woman , never even talked with her .. so I didn't know her from Adam . In saying good bye after our two minute conversation. I said " Good-bye , I'll see you real soon and am  going to miss you so much "  ?????    What did I just say and to who ..  ????  OMG I have never been so embarrassed.

A couple of days later I said something just as ridiculous to a friend ,  she was great about it and we laughed.

I knew I was in big trouble , physically ..  I knew I must be pretty sick.  . I had passed out the week before and so I already had an inkling that something was up.

I try not to talk with too many people ,  or for very long .  I 'm am still  nervous about it happening again


When I met my new pcp last fall .  I said " Hello , L_____( His last name )  Doctor "  Instesd of   Doctor L _______.   I was very red faced that day too.    

You want more    :))     Jo         PS I always have cog fog   .   Jan.- 6 -08 I did not , my one clear day.
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I recently had to have xrays taken.  When I was done and leaving the xray room the technician had to tell me I was leaving barefoot. I had forgotten to put on my sandles.

I, of course, have caught myself doing similar things before but usually when alone its concerning and when you do it in front of others then its concerning and embarrasing.

Too many times when someone has asked me a  question I'm like a Deer caught in Headlights.  Some have just given up and walked away.  
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505521 tn?1211929241
Paid for an $18 shirt at the fair with a large bill and just walked away after handed me the shirt...without my change.  Later I was wondering who this weird stalker guy at the fair was and why was he now CHASING ME!!!!!!    He was the "shirt guy" and politely handed over my change.  My family thought I was nuts!
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Ok, this one's really bad!

Speaking on the phone long distance to a highschool friend whom I had kept in touch with but only spoke to once or twice a year:  

I asked her when her baby was due - and she replied "I had him last month, remember Brian?"

Of course I did!  I even sent a gift!  I was sooooooo embarrassed!



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427279 tn?1210919821
my most embarresing is when im talking to my daughter and were talking about my grandaughter and i couldnt think of her name and last week or so ago i was talking to my dh and i was answering him and the word was like a two part word and i said last part first and first part last .......i looked at dh and said where in the heck did that come from....lol....deb
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These are too funny for words. Just gave me my laugh for the day.

My bloopers come frequently but I never really own them.   The latest was yesterday and I still don't know why.

For some reason (unknown to me) I dialled the last number on my cellphone with no idea who it was.

Ring...Ring..............Ring Ring.........................

Reply:      "Hello"
Me:          "Hello"
Reply       "hello".
Me:         "hello, who is that?"
Reply:      "who do you want it to be?".  
Me:          "Well, I thought YOU called me"
Reply:      "No, you called me"
Me:          "Well your number is on my cellphone"
Reply:      "That's strange"
Me:          Yes, and it says you called me today, I think.
Reply:      "Nope"
Me           " Who are you anyway?
Reply:       "This is Jerry"
Me           "Jerry?     Jerry who?
Reply:      "Jerry's Home Repair"
Me:           Ohhhhh! Yes. Jerry!  How are you"?
Jerry:       " I'm O.K. but did you call me for something?  (sounded a bit annoyed)
Me:          " Well I called you because I thought you called me. Sorry about that. Glad   to hear you are okay"  
Jerry:        "Okay, bye"
Me           " Sorry, Bye"

This guy Jerry had been to our house and did a tile job for us but did not clean up afterwards and I wouldn't pay him until he did. It took him two days to clean off the thinset and grout to my satisfaction. He knew I would never use him again so how embarrassing is that?   I could have choked. My husband laughed his a*** off.

I've also said "bye, love you" to a complete stranger on the phone and  that is definitely very embarrassing.

Oh well, it's being so cheerful that keeps me going......

Marcie


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147426 tn?1317265632
Mine was not so much an embarassing moment as a frightening moment.  It was when I was having trouble in medical practice from the cog fog of the vertigo, which is actually from mental fatigue rather than diffuse mental slowing.

I had had a hellish night on call with a C-Section at 1:30am, one t 3:30 am nd one at 7:00am.  With essentially no sleep I was called to a STAT C-section for 35 week old premies who were supposed to have mature lungs according to the lab test on the fluid. One of them was not mature and went into respiratory distress.

I was taking care of him, when his O2 saturation began to drop rapidly.  I saw it happen, but had no "alert" in me to respond to it as an emergency.  There was nothing.  It wasn't like I didn't know what to do.  I didn't even recognize it as a problem.  An alert nurse began bagging the baby's O2 back up, I turned and passed the care of it off to a colleague and went home, where I slept the next 24 hours.

I left practice becasue of that event and still break out in sweats thinking about it.

On a lighter note, I misdialed a lady recently (which I hate to do) and began to apologize for bothering her.  She said, "Oh, it's okay.  I had to get up to answer the phone anyway."

Quix :))
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335728 tn?1331414412
My biggest cog-fog screw ups have to do with who people are and their names.  My hubby and I were in Walmart about 2 months ago and I noticed that hubby was talking to a woman and she came over and said hi and asked how I was doing?  I responded that it was day to day and I asked if she was still working at the hospital? (meaning the auxiliary hospital I  used to work at)  She looked at me with a blank look and then it dawned on me that she is a friend of our friends...not the woman whom I worked with at the hospital!  I was soooo embarassed especially since this woman didn't know about my "brain farts" and what they were due to.

I hate that this cog-fog make me forget people's names the most.  I find it very embarassing that you can't remember someone's family member name the most because I think that they expect that a person would remember their son's or daughter's name and it has caused hurt feelings at different times.

Rena
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486038 tn?1300063367
This has been wonderful to read... it made my day! :) I'm 20, and going through the scariness of trying to find out what is "wrong" with me and this has been good to see that others deal with the cog-fog too!

I've forgotten my own phone number sooo many times, and have had to turn to a friend while at a church youth party and ask "what's my number?" so i could call home.

I also have forgotten my extended family members names and my friends will give me the strangest looks because I don't know how to explain that I simply can't remember dates, names or what I did yesterday!

Just recently I called somewhere and instead of asking for the person I wanted to speak to... I asked for MYSELF and the person on the other end laughed so hard she couldn't speak for a long time. Thankfully she recognized my voice and was able to explain what was going on to a totally confused ME!
~Sunnytoday~
(undiagnosed)

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147426 tn?1317265632
LOL!!  Sunny, that's Good!

I just noticed:

???        og Fog   ????
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281565 tn?1295982683
I think my scariest with cog (og lol) fog is leaving the stove or oven on. Hubby is constantly checking after me to make sure it is off. This is something I've never done in my life and even when I'm sure I did turn it off, nope it's on. So either I have a ghost in the house or my brain decided to leave the premises.

The most embarrassing was just the other day with my sister. She dropped off some perennials here that she said I had ordered. I wasn't home when she came by so hubby took them and was just going to plant them when I came in. There was a bill of $30.00 owing and I flipped saying I had never ordered them and what the heck was she thinking.

Of course I got right on the phone and proceeded to tell her off and asking her why she would think that I wouldn't say anything to her when she proceeded to tell me that I had ordered them a few months ago to help support their local park renovations. I indignantly told her that I'm sure I would remember doing such a thing and that I may have blank moments sometimes but this I wouldn't forget. She came over and low and behold it was my writing on the order. I still don't remember doing this but the perennials are now in the flower bed. haha

Moki
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400099 tn?1282954864
Sorry I've been gone a while...lots of stress with hubby's health and also in an ex... (cog fog).

A lot of the earlier ones ring a bell with me. I agree with mokibear about leaving the stove on. Honey bear, checks the oven for me. I left the burner on once and it's a flat top electric, so that's really scary.

A few months ago, I had a credit on my grocery gas card and apparently I used it. I still to this day do not remember using it. I made a stink about it, but inmy heart, I knew they must be telling me the truth.

Word mix ups happen to me all the time, worse when I'm very tired. The other day, we were at the local health club looking into it so I can start getting into the water to strengthen my muscles. I wanted to ask the very young girl if they offered yoga classes and I said, "So, do you offer yogurt classes?" Ugh! Was I embarrassed!
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228463 tn?1216761521
You guys crack me up!!!!  I needed that laugh, sorry I can't add today since I am truly in the midst of a mental blizzard and I am lucky I can remember how to type.

Your stories made me laugh so hard I woke all the dogs up! LOL

Thanks all!
Kristin
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This has turned into a funny thread! I especially like the phone call stories, with Marcie telling a total stranger she loves her being such a hoot.

It's nice to laugh!

ess
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476834 tn?1228398709


fRIDAY i was working and had to fill out a referral for a pt for a CT anyway the pt was right next to me and I asked for his ss number,, he told me and I wrote it down,, he was watching me write it,, well lets say he said,,, 123-45.1234  I kept writing it just as (I heard him saying it)  long story short it took me 4 times to get it right.  he said "No 123 and I wrote 234, I was getting almost ill with him because I didn't realize it was ME that was writing it down wrong.. oh hell  this was sooooooooo embarrassing.. his comment to me was "your a true blonde arent you"?    I just laughed and once again underneath I was thinking ,,,, what the hell is WRONG WITH ME?

THINGS like this just keep happening.   does this sound MS related?  with all my other symptoms I'm just soooooo damned frustrated.  
Uno I have NEVER in my life thought of MS,, not till the neurologist told me that is what she was looking for on my MRI..

i'm just having a hell of a time.. My moods I could cry one minute and laugh the next..
its not like a depression, although I do have depression and take prozac and have for years.. this just seems different.

I feel like i'm LOSING MY MIND...

Ive always thought of myself as a sharp person... worked hard. tried my best.  etc
but lately I feel just plain dumb..... and this (playing like i'm ok,, and laughing everything off)  I just dont know how much longer I can do it.

anyway please Is this something I should let my neuro know or will she just think am I just plain crazy???
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398059 tn?1447945633
actually, I cannot remember right know.  But, I know there have been many situation and folks having a good laugh.
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198419 tn?1360242356
Up at the podium, reporting on a large project in front of 60+ people trying not to sound like a drunkard!
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I constantly have what I call my SHOE MYSTERY?  Because of numbness in my feet, and brain fog, unless I am looking at my feet, I can not tell you what shoes I am wearing.
I am always double checking my feet before leaving the house making sure my shoes match.
I am also a nursing student, so studying is a challenge to say the least.
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The one my kids really laughed at was when I referred to an umbrella as a light bulb.  I'm still trying to figure out how in my brain those two items could be interchangeable.
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195469 tn?1388322888
My "cog-fog," was not funny but I'll share anyway.  I was driving and pulled up to a stop-light.  Within seconds, I couldn't figure out where I was, why everyone was stopped, nor what to do when the light apparently turned green.  The honking of other driver's finally snapped me out of my fog and I realized that when the light turns green, you are suppose to move forward.

Another strange one is standing in front of the mirror and getting ready to put a rubber band in my hair.  I could not for the life of me, figure out what I was suppose to do with that rubber band.  This lasted for several seconds.  At first I was scared, then I laughed.

It was then I realized that the brain is extremely complex and sometimes the simplest of commands, can be lost momentarily in a brain that is hindered by lesions.

The screwed up speech is a story for another day, I suppose.  Gosh I have said some stupid things in my journey through MS.  I don't drink but you sure would think I was a drunk.

Did you all know, that if we are ever stopped for suspected "driving under the influence," that we can actually refuse to take the sobriety test, just based on the fact that we have documented MS?  (Apparently we just tell the officers that we have documented MS and cannot pass the field sobriety test)  If the officers asked me to walk in a straight line or touch my nose with my eyes closed, with my head bent back, you can only imagine how the results would present.  If we are arrested and go before a judge after failing a field sobriety test, that our "drunk driving" case would be dismissed based on having MS.  Now they can make us take the breath test, but most people with MS would flunk the field test.

Heather
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AMO
thanks for the laughs everyone! keeps the O2 flowing  HA!


I too have ended many phone  calls with respeeetionists, mechanics and insurance agents with 'i love you' .... hope i made their day.

on eof the scarey leaving stove on storties....
i make my humming bird necctar.... nice spring day, sons h.s. graduation decided to make it so it would be cooled for when we get home. Welll four hours later we returned home from the ceremonie and a party to finnd smke billowing out the windows! I was yelling 'who left something cooking???'  
Funny thing is, that was the thirdd pan i ruined with nectar ,grrr.
I am amazed my neighbors have neever called the fire dept on me , HA! LOL

I   once left the house for six hours with potatoes boiling, Beside smoking...boy those stunk!

But the best was we had a  broken garage dorr opener. The repair guys were fixing it,  i put on water  in a Revierware stainless tea kettle (gas stove) After sometime ii thought they must be soldering the garage door from the smell of it. I glanced in the gargae and funny they were gone? hum,

ENtering the kitchen the smell was stronger and I was thinking the workers must have been cooking something??  and whenn i saw the glowing red kettlee on the stove realized  it was what i ssmelled! The plastic handle annd spout cover had long melted  off and were blobs on the stovetop. After a few seconded i realized it was  me not them who put the water on.

one good thing about declining health, I do not cook like I used to, and I don't go out alone, so no fears of burning the house down any more ! HA!

this thread could go on forever huh? keep um coming
amo
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338416 tn?1420045702
Hah!  Which category do you want to talk about?  Using the wrong word?  Or totally forgetting a person's name, or calling them by the wrong name?  Or not even RECOGNIZING the person when they're standing in front of me?

I think the funniest is when I use the wrong phrase for the situation.  Like I was trying to tell my honey to "get rid of that" (throw out something nasty in the fridge,) and said instead "Get the h*** out."  He looked at me oddly, and then I realized what I had said!  Or when I told him we needed to throw the towel away, when actually I meant throw the towel in the wash.

Cog fog when you're driving isn't so funny.  Yesterday I had to drive most of the way back from Houston to Fort Worth, which is a four hour trip.  My honey wasn't feeling good, so he was snoozing in the passenger seat - otherwise I would never have taken the wheel.  When the road wasn't too crowded, it was okay.  But after two hours, I had to stop down and have him drive for a while, because I was just making too many errors.  Judgement errors, errors in concentration - I felt like I needed to slap myself in the face to wake up.  Unfortunately he started feeling badly again, and so I had to take the wheel for the rest of the trip.  Which ended up being five hours because I missed a turn!  Argh!
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OMG some of these stories are too funny.

I've had so many moments like these-my husband and I usually get some really good laughs out of some of the things I say or do.  Most commonly I combine words.

Last week I had to go to the bathroom so bad-in my head I was thinking, "If I don't go to the bathroom soon I'm going to burst"  But what came out of my mouth was, "I have to go to the birth room."  Then I was thinking of buying a new shower curtain and I said, "I'm going to get a new shurtain"  Tha sad part is-I talk like this so much my husband knows what I means.

I also stop at green lights or yellow blinking lights while driving-I just sit there in my car-don't know what I'm waiting for the lights already green.  Usually someone beeps or I see them waving their arms like a maniac.  I've even been headed home and completely turned down the wrong room.

Oh this one is really funny-I was at the store BB&B had to go to the bathroom really bad so I didn't see the urinals on the wall and while washing my hands afterwards a man came in lookat at me strange and proceeded to the stall(sp?) I said, "excuse me I think you have entered the wrong bathroom"  He said , "No I don't think so"  I opened the door and saw "MEN"  then looked back in and saw the urinals.
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