funny foggy moments

[suzannah16]

I was hanging the washing out this morning when I realised I had already washed it yesterday. I had picked up the basket of clean washing and done it again. Luckily no one else seemed to notice it was the same things as yesterday hanging on the line. Any one else have funny foggy moments?

[eekt]

I travelled 2 hours to a seminar...to find it was on the Thursday, not Tuesday ...I had checked and double-checked but I had a bandwidth problem xxx

[suzannah16 in reply to eekt]

done similar. consultant changed my appointment to local infirmary instead of hospital an hour away. I went to the hospital as usual 2 hours plus parking fee instead of 20mins and free parking.

[eekt in reply to suzannah16]

..I'd have gorged myself on hot cheese scones from the hospital canteen in that situation! xxx

[suzannah16 in reply to eekt]

My hospital doesn't have food that good. even if they did make cheese scones they wouldn't be as good as mine

[eekt in reply to suzannah16]

My favourite brain fog moment: rumours that a new-start's rapid rise to manager was not due to talent led me to clicking 'reply all' with links to Flickr photos of her pole-dancing naked (she had a very distinctive surname rhyming with harlot)...then I realised, too late to retrieve, that my 'reply all' included senior management, not just my close colleagues 😵 😧 😱 ...I'm sure it was brain fog 😯 <fade to 'The Beast in Me'> xxx

[Jetblack1]

I've been aweful the past few days! I left my sons coat at the park but luckily a friend recognised it and took it home until next day.

Monday I left work an hour early, thinking I'd completed my 3 hour shift... In my brain I was adiment I was right. I'm abit scared about loosing my job if I carry on with this brain fog and confusion. Some we laugh at and others well we have to deal with 🤦‍♀️

[eekt in reply to Jetblack1]

It's pretty terrible when work is affected, I didn't have an diagnosis to explain what was going on...have you a friend at work that can keep you right with working hours (my boss had told everyone it was all lies about illness so I didn't)...or someone who can give you a shout by phone at shift's end...or set the alarm on your phone...means training the brain to know to wait for a signal to go home...there's things technology can do...there's things employer should do but sometimes don't know they should...start a post and the ideas will come....All the very best xxx

[DJK99]

Hey Suzannah - how annoying was that for you? On all points... and a little er, concerning for you Im sure... however, I think youll find many many many of us do these things most days (but hopefully not a full wash load of clean clothing... that would really pee me off financially and exertion-wise ;). Im sorry though, as it is kinda frightening sometimes eh. I think its par for the course, sadly... and just something we need to keep an eye on... and if you live alone maybe keep a record of these things happening, just in case you want to let your Rheumy and or GP know. I got lost in a very familiar place the other weekend, I was just too pooped from a trip to the local hospital and really shouldnt have walked. It was frightening.. I got my friend to pick me up as my phone sat nav thang wasnt connecting so I could find my way to hers. I think its our bods way of saying were doing too much I think ie stop, rest up! I lost my washing up from supper last night as later on found I had taken it upstairs ie not down into the kitchen. Urg. My Rheumy said it is.... cognitive slowing............ Nice. At 56. Gawd. Think I prefer brain fog...! It is a good description I think - dont know about you but I feel there is a light gauze covering my brain or its been injected with custard or something... I just cannot get it to work properly anymore.. and it definitely complains with nasty headaches if I try to do too much. I have many other entertaining incidences ie purse in the fridge (common I hear!), or one week when still trying to work i got pretty much every single appointment wrong ie wrong day, wrong time etc...work and personal stuff... so if ever you need more evidence you are among friends just ask ;)... but yes,Id say keep a noteboock handy to record as soon as it happens, and let your health peeps know.. always best. Big hug x

[suzannah16 in reply to DJK99]

If I write it down someone might read it, that is if I remember to write it down. I'm just trying to find the funny side of brain fog/SLE or whatever. Humour keeps me sane even if it does sound like I'm crazy

[eekt in reply to DJK99]

It is alarming, but looking at it in perspective, I have one neighbour who unlawfully claimed £27k in housing benefit without realising she was doing wrong, another who lives below her who is convinced upstairs' neighbour's son has been living with her for seven years (that would show up in the above-mentioned court case), another who doesn't know whether it's New York or New Year any day of the week, and another whose key wouldn't let her in her house (wrong house), all without any kind of chronic illness...well, all 60+ but if we manage to that age with SLE and just minor aberrations, we're doing ok xxx

PS Guess I'm lucky to live in a weird neighbourhood! 😵 😳 😁

[Djlr]

Yes🤗🙄

All we can do is smile, and see the humor in what we have done. But The Lupus Fog can bring confusion every now and then, when I'm doing things like that, I usually know it's time to "lay down and rest" for the rest of the day 🙃

My CNS lupus is acting up for sure, and I need a little time to bring myself together.

I do like it when I can give myself a little "laugh" through little situations like that ☺️

It definitely is worse when I'm overtired, my brain almost quits functioning 🙄

My husband said I had Alzheimer's ( I was only in my late 40s) – so I got tested, the neurologist said no – it's just when I'm in a lupus flare that my brain just sort of gets a little out of whack. Because, it always comes back when I'm feeling better 😊

[eekt in reply to Djlr]

I live alone, so I'm quite happy in my own world and I don't really have much solid reality for back-up - ie my previous neighbours thought I was crazy because I grow food in my garden: 'you can buy it in the shops' - but it does lead to tricky moments, like yesterday, now where did I put that letter from OH saying I'm fit to work on the Falkland Islands...

Like you say, all you can do is have a little laugh! xxx

[suzannah16 in reply to eekt]

I'm not surprised your neighbour thought you weird for growing "food" in your garden. how do you grow battered steak pies? Or do you grow that strange English stuff called veg? [please bear in mind I live in the town that claims to have invented the battered mars bar]

[DJK99 in reply to suzannah16]

Hahahah.. v amusing missus! Thanks for that I laffed out loud. x

[eekt in reply to suzannah16]

😅 😆 😂 😅 😆 😂 (doubled up) well I might have steak pies growing with all the bits the houndrel buried, nothing sprouted yet, but I have exotic stuff like red cabbage.....😅 😆 😂 😅 😆 😂 😅 😆 😂 😅 😆 😂 XOX

[Djlr in reply to eekt]

That's great you're raising some of your own food!

Many people in America do that within their garden plots in their backyard or in special pots or raised gardens; it is quite common here in all economic levels.

Better to eat what you know is in the food and how it's been processed than to buy it in the store 🤗💜🌷

We are on a major organic trend over here at this point… And that is good for lupus patients.

But I miss place things all the time so I totally understand that part too of living with lupus🙃

[eekt in reply to Djlr]

Yow, I have red cabbage growing in my flower border....it's happy, I'm happy! xxx

[DRunnerchick]

Well done that you realized it! Sometimes I don’t until I do it completely over or rebuy the same thing- irritating as all get out. You just have to roll with it and as an old 🏄🏽‍♀️ surfer, ride the 🌊 wave and have a chuckle. There are worse things. This is when you find out who really loves you 😘 .

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[eekt in reply to DRunnerchick]

Yup, far worse....I've always been a bit weird, least now I can blame it on something! xxx

[DRunnerchick in reply to eekt]

Weird is good. Just remember that “normal” is just a setting on a washing machine 😃

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[eekt in reply to DRunnerchick]

😅 ...oh boy, who wants to be a washing machine! Thank you! 😁 😁 😁 xxx

[Lisalou19]

Yup, I put coffee on my sons weetabix 😬. When I realised it felt like someone had done it. X

[Lisalou19 in reply to Lisalou19]

#else

[eekt in reply to Lisalou19]

Hey, not such a bad idea for a youngster though, an hour full power then a little sleep time to coincide with old man fatigue! 😂 😘 xxx

[suzannah16 in reply to Lisalou19]

not strange at all, coffee Weetabix will hit the shops next. It's probably how they discovered the chocolate flavour with someone pouring on hot chocolate.

[Matt80]

I feel I am having more and more of these moments

Today I stood for 10 minutes trying to put extra large duvet cover on the easy way by turning it inside out as I always do

But then my brain would not tell me how to do it that way ?

It really upset me , luckily daughter came in to help

Names of people is the worst thing for me very frightening 🤦🏻‍♀️

[suzannah16 in reply to Matt80]

names, grammer, spelling. all things I used to be good at. I sent an e-mail to someone the other day and wrote "payed" instead of "paid" my brain woke me at 3am to tell me of my mistake.

[sunshine16]

Love your photo of your doggie I have two rescue collies and yes I have those funny foggy moments I commented to my husband how beautiful the red daffodils were and he looked at me and I repeated the same phrase until I realised what I had said

Can be scary sometimes I don't even mention it to the rheumy

Had a brain scan which showed tiny flares of hyperintense white-matter in both cerebral side but was told that's just part and parcel of being middle-aged😳

[suzannah16 in reply to sunshine16]

thank you, my dog is a rescue too. her owner died last year and I adopted her a few months ago. she is 14+ and still going strong. My last 3 dogs were al rescued collie crosses but Mandy is something different. I have no idea what her mix is. Our dogs keep us sane with all the weird things our health does to us.