Some days I really wonder what happened to the old me. I once was very organized and highly intelligent. Some days I have to fight the brain fog just to remember what the right word for things. My vocabulary has shrunk.
This morning, I made myself a sandwich and lost it before I could eat it! I just found it! Apparently my foggy brain thought it needed to be dried! Can't help but laugh as I put the load of laundry back in the washer and try again, lol.
At least I am home alone so no one got to see just how crazy brain fog can make me!
I pray you all have a good weekend.
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I do that one fairly often too. I have had to learn to laugh at the randomness and just go on. Very few people in my life understand. Thats why I have come to enjoy this forum, people understand without judging.
Sorry, I know doing things like that can be frustrating, but I appreciate the peek into your laundry room. Happy you got a laugh out of it. You made me chuckle too. Thanks!
Me too! Lost my glasses yesterday. Looked high and low. Found them in the trash can 🙃I keep telling my self it's still all in there (my brain) I just can't always access it.
Oh how I know that feeling! I am extremely near-sighted. I have lost my glasses a couple of times lately. My fiancé had a good laugh as I frantically searched all through the kitchen and living room,mostly by feel which is a real challenge with my dominant hand being numb,before he finally pointed out that I had them on my face! Add blurred vision to the list of symptoms lol. Thank goodness the solumedrol seems to have cleared that symptom up!
So many times I have been frantically looking for my cell phone, expressing my agitation to my husband or kids while I am talking to them on my cell phone, cell phone in hand!! 😂
Eva1981 I also received a ticket for $120. Lesson learned. My problem is, I keep setting my phone down and walking off without it. I do have find my iPhone app which is a good thing, but turned it off after finding out my children look to see where I'm at from their app. After losing it again, I decided it's better them being able to see where I'm at than the aggravation of not having a phone.😁
Hang in Eva the Cog fog hits a lot of us; I know it does me. I have learned to be patient with myself, take things slowly and do only one thing to completely or at least to a logical breaking point so I can remember where I am. I try to mostly have a sense of humor about this part of MS like I am sure you do;).
I use a to do list and have a calendar up to date where I see it in my apartment on my "desk" and one on my phone which I try to keep up to date so I won't forget important things.
I wish you the best; I do find laughter is a great part of our MS medicines🤓
I wish you the best as well Lindy. I too have developed my tricks for reminding myself. Still at times the silliness slips through. Before MS was brought up as a possible diagnosis, I had begun to think I was getting senile (I am 35,lol).
I know exactly what you mean! I used to be a morning person - up early, clean the whole house, do laundry, water the yard and make dinner. I used to have "normal" conversations - meaning, I didn't have to pause all the time to think of the words I wanted to use. Although I still work time (out of financial necessity), I go to work, struggle though the 8+ hour day, then come home and simply die in my bed. I miss the normalcy that I used to have.
I too still work full time. Its a financial and emotional necessity for me. I couldn't just stay home. I am a caregiver for individuals with disabilities. Luckily they are some of the most accepting people. I work at my own pace and find that I am better when I work than if I am off very long. Its a challenge but I thrive on challenges. I know that the day may come when I can't anymore but I intend to do so as long as I possibly can. My fiancé is so supportive of me ,he has already said that if I need to quit he will take care of us but I won't. Most evenings I make it home to the couch and i crash. I miss normal but I am learning my new normal.
It's nice to know you have someone to have your back if you need it. Unfortunately, I'm divorced (and then my ex died). It would be easier if I had another income coming in. I'm also helping out my son and his wife. We all live together - they don't want me live on my own in case something goes wrong - and I help them out because my grandson has a heart defect that has taken, so far, 3 open heart surgeries - and he just turned one. Honestly, it's my family that keeps me going above all else.
Brain Fog really it is just another part of me now, I can't seem to live without Brain Fog. I am always going on my way to another room in the house and when I get there I seem to freeze, I have forgotten why I am in that room and what I am suppose to be doing, I literary will stand there frozen trying to remember what to do next. It seems like I take for ever to do anything. I am thankful for being able to do what I can. Others seem to forget I am not the same as I used to be. The person who stayed up to 2 a.m. just to get everything ready for the next day and Was I so organized. We had five children and when the youngest was 17 we adopted another, he is now 15 and has Autism. You should be a fly on the wall to here a conversation with a person who has MS and one who has Autism, one day he asked me if I had ever gone to school, I laughed so much it was good.
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