Is this brain fog?

[kaypeeoh]

Arrrgghh! I got the gas tank filled then left without taking the card out of the pump. Ten minutes later I realized I didn't have the card and drove back but no card. I checked inside and no card had been dropped off. The card has since been cancelled but.....Arrrggh!

[Xenos]

No brain fog here, if you ask me. It's simply a proof that you are a human being ...

[KERRINGTON]

Nah, 20 yrs ago I drove off from work, and left my briefcase in the parking lot. A block away I remembered. No one caught my error.. Whew !

[Hidden]

You may have brain fog but doesn’t every human to varying degrees? I left my car keys on the roof of my car in downtown San Francisco for the entirety of my work day and didn’t realize until I returned to my car 9 hours later. Miracle the car did not end up in pieces in Oakland. I put gas in a Diesel engine and then attempted a long drive. Oops. You are not alone! And I did these things in my twenties and thirties. Perhaps all this was an indication of my future PD? I’m aware of my deficiencies now so I’m slower and more methodical. Or I attempt to be anyways.

[Despe]

Kay,

It happens to everyone over 60!

[MarionP in reply to Despe]

And darned many of them under 60.

[Despe in reply to MarionP]

[laglag]

Just a few hours ago I realized I didn't have my debit card. I rarely use it anymore, so I'm not sure where it is. I went thru everything in the car, the house, trash bags,. etc. I told my husband when he got home and he's scoured everything also and nowhere to be be found! Arrrggh is right!

[Sapeye2020]

KPO. the fogg is as thick as pea soup, French style? but you don't want it!

Example : I was measuring out an area for a cabinet with single hole for the faucet. I had taped out the approx. location and wanted to make sure it would not stick out too far into the walking space of the large bathroom, in progress. So do you think I could remember 23 inches for the length to the door trim? No way, I looked at the tape on the floor, looked to the paper and "what was that distance, look back at the tape now coiled up.... repeat several times, , Time to admit surrender and called for help .... wife comes in and uses her management skills to clear the fogg and frustration and reboot my mathematical mind or at least some of it.

The fogg can roll in and if one is lucky out as fast, it can wake with you or keep you from getting asleep you .

Aren't Designer Diseases interesting...

For the key issue, I attempt to put them in the same place but they sometime grow legs and move in the dark...

Cheers

[kaypeeoh in reply to Sapeye2020]

My keys have their own hook. They NEVER leave the hook unless I'm returning them or leaving the house with them.

[1rocketman]

This should make you feel better... my husband has PD, I do not, but somehow we both managed to pack up for a roadtrip 1,000+ miles away and left our front door WIDE open for around 34 hours before we casually checked our house cameras and realized our mistake. Fortunately, we were able to get our son to come over and lock up when we discovered it around midnight. We live in the suburbs of a large city. The gardener came and went, so did the mailman... people walked the block with their dogs. Our house lights were lit up day and night like a beacon practically advertising that we weren't home, and not a thing was disturbed when we came back. I expected gypsies, homeless people, raccoons, stray cats, or opossums to move in -- nothing except a bunch of houseflies. I guess we live in a decent neighborhood... or we're extremely lucky! Brainfog, indeed!

[kaypeeoh in reply to 1rocketman]

IT didn't make me feel better, It made me queasy, fear of leaving the house and not closing the front door. Fear is a motivator.

[Larrydds]

I know exactly how you feel. Last night I parked in NYC and could not remember where I parked the car. It took 30 minutes to find it, brain fog or just getting old............

[kaypeeoh in reply to Larrydds]

I guess it's been a problem for some time. Once I spent an hour looking for my truck. Now when I park at the grocery store I make sure I'm close to the returned carts. When exiting I scan the lot looking for them.

[Larrydds in reply to kaypeeoh]

great idea

[JBOVERT]

PREOCCUPIED IS ALL THAT IS

DONT WORRY

[GymBag]

So I think the consensus of opinion is it is not some cognitive decline caused by Parkinson's . It is instead just something stupid you did just like almost everybody else does.

It does not happen to me of course but I would not worry about it if it did.

Well OK once , I drove to the store and walked home and then could not find my truck, I was sure it had been stolen, and the cop drove me to the store after I remembered where it was , but thats all.

[gginto]

I have friends without pd that do this from time to time... yes could be pd...but could also come with older age...25 years ago I picked up a pizza and left it on the car roof.. soon after I saw it flying off in the rear view mirror..

[MarionP]

Once heard about a guy who left the station without taking the pump from his filler tube. Uh oh. I don't think it was a brain thing though, at least, not in the formal diagnosis arena. Who hasn't blown up the odd gas station. Forget it.

[kaypeeoh]

I did that once. I assumed gas would spurt from a ruptured hose but no. I took it back the next morning and they reattached it. I was in a rush getting my daughter to soccer practice.