I am an idiot!

[donnabrain]

Got to Lupus unit at 8-45 for a 9am appt. this morning

Good, I am early, I thought.

Yes! one whole month early, my appt is Thursday 20th MARCH!

[Manofmendip]

That sounds like the kind of thing I would do. Good old APS cooking the brain again.

Dave x

[Lure2]

When such things happen I usually laugh at myself. But it can cost a lot of wasted time and Money and then it is more difficult to laugh!

Anyway you are not alone. Do not forget to write down the new date!

Best wishes from Kerstin in Stockholm where we have snow for one day. Gone tomorrow.

[donnabrain]

thanks guys, lol I made it worse by falling asleep on the tube and missing my stop on the way home,something I do almost evertime I have an appt. there

[overnighthearingloss]

Its worse when you forget something is in the oven, especially if like me you have no sense of smell. Too easy to forget and set the house alight. I am getting used to indoor barbecues

[Suzypawz]

LMAO! that's still tickling me now! we've all done it...I've been to numerous docs / dentists appointments & done it too.....sometimes I've made it out that it's their fault as I felt so stupid!!!

It's what the Hughies do!! x

[tassie]

I've taken little one out of school for an appointment and turned up at the appointment to discover I was at the wrong surgery. The one I was supposed to be at was on the other side of town and impossible to get to in time.

I've also turned up to a doctors appointment a day early but I'm sure it wasn't my mistake .... that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

[JanBad]

I have travelled from Manchester to St Thomas's, with a hotel stay paid for, and found out I was a week early!

I have lost count of the number of times I have turned up at the wrong local hospital or the right hospital on the wrong day.

You're not alone.

[donnabrain]

OMG,at least I hadn,t traveled that far, I am still smarting from the seventeen pound travel card!

[donnabrain]

Using the iron to do my sons school shirt, then going to do the same the following morning only to find it has been on a whole 24 hours, burn,t saucepans (usually containing carrots)...

[jetjetjet]

I forgot my SERVICE dog Casey @ staples a office supply store went and got him after the whole store was calling to me --then tried to leave with out my glasses or car key's. i even got an applaud when i finally left with everything !!!! I was a little red in the face needless to say -- but still just laughed it off -what else can we do but laugh.I once wrote a check to a food store {super market ] and went to leave made it past all the registers and everyone was yelling -SIR -SIR _SIR-- I turned to see all eye's on me and the cashier said would you like your groceries-- so I replied you mean you don't deliver -- well the entire store started laughing - talk about feeling stupid --- you could look the word up in the dictionary and my picture is there !!!!! jet

[tassie]

I've thought I was cooking dinner too and either forgot to add the food to the oven or forgotten to turn the oven on many times.

[stillwaiting]

You know the "flash" key thing that opens your car? I have often tried to use it to open my front door - lol! Thing is, I stand there swearing under my breath at how stupid IT is (rather than me)! This always happens when my INR is low.

Lynn.x.

[donnabrain]

Oh what are we like! I am glad I am in good company,my friends and family(except my younger son who"gets it")think it,s just me that is like this

[thomas_tz]

I've done the same, one week off... Fully sympathetic.

[Lexi_Img]

My I NR was very low for me this past week 106. I chalk this crazy week to putting 11/2 pills of a different med in my medicine container instead of my warfin. Things I did we're crazy. I still am not there yet in my cob web brain. It is good we can identify these things or it maybe something else going on. You have to laugh. Thanks

[Lexi_Img in reply to Lexi_Img]

Thanks everyone

[catno1]

Brilliant! Blame the Lupus, I do, we have to be crazy at times to live with it.

Managed to get on the wrong train line once & wondered why couldn't find my stop. Idiot that I am!

The most annoying thing similar is, you fill the kettle then run around doing three chores at once desperate for a cuppa only to get back to it, make the tea/coffee. But . . .you'd forgotten to actually turn the kettle on. Drive myself nuts with that regularly!

You'll be paranoid you'll wake late or forget the appt on the 20th March now!

All the best,

Sue

[daisyd]

I took my son to a birthday party a month to early, school summer holidays and invitation given out early.

What's worse we bumped into them as they came home, my son is thirty three and still talks about it.

[tim47]

Clearly you are not alone, this is something we all relate to!

[MaryF Administrator]

The muffled and urgent ringing of my naughty errant mobile phone from the depths of the fridge says it all, alongside the plate of sandwiches which I put on top of the car for my husband to eat outside, a friend of mine even more dotty than myself who tells the longest shagging dog stories in the history of the universe, decided to drive me out for a drink at the pub on the estuary, he drives very very slowly, and much to my surprise even though it was five miles, they were still there, and duly eaten but not by my husband, who spent many an hour looking for them! MaryF

[Bell990]

I once got on the bus for my 1-hour commute to work. When I arrived, as I was carefully manipulating my dizzy self down the steps of the bus, I saw that I had my slippers on. I got back on the bus and went home to get my shoes. On another occasion, I took the laundry out of the washer and started to fold it. I was almost done before I realized I had not dried it.

[donnabrain]

I would have gone in with my slippers lol

[Lexi_Img]

I was staring at my dishwasher after opening it not knowing what to do. My husband ask me if he could help? I was so upset and then laughed later. My INR gets adjusted today for sure. The day before I was trying to pay the speaker at the drive thur at Mc Donald's. I just laughed at myself.

[Lhrlovesmar]

Donnabrain, please don't talk bad about yourself or call yourself names. There is enough people that will do that.

Be a fighter!

[JanBad]

Came out hospital appointment in Manchester yesterday afternoon, then decided I needed the loo. Stopped at big huge supermarket on way home, went, had a walk round, did some shopping, went to the loo again, filled the car with fuel and set off home again

After 30 minutes of rush hour traffic I realised I was almost back at the hospital, I had taken a wrong turn out of the supermarket petrol station. Got turned round and set off home again. More rush hour traffic.

21 mile journey took nearly 2 hours

That's not just brain fog - that's Lupus Brain Fog

[happee1]

OMG...this thread is hysterical...so many are me too...thank goodness for us people wouldn't have anything to talk or laugh about...lol

[happee1]

i want to add one more..

years ago i took some clothes to the dry cleaners to be cleaned..i got my kids out of the car ...grabbed my clothes walked up to the door opened it and walked in..

only problem is it was somebody's apartment..they converted the dry cleaners into an apartment months earlier and i forgot..

needless to say the homeowner wasn't to thrilled with me...of course that is the "fun" conversation at holidays when my kids want to try to embarrass me....lol