Where's My Remote?

kimBe

I can finally "join" this post that I have thoroughly enjoyed!
I got my wig about a week ago, and bras and prosthesis on Monday. My wig looks good, isn't hot, doesn't itch, but I feel like Marge Simpson-I have something huge on my head. So told DH last night that I was going to wear my wig for "awhile" every day. About 20 miles into my commute I realized that I had my glasses, my purse, my wig, my left boob and had fogotten a hat to wear "later"-but I work at a surgical hospital so could just borrow a paper surgical hat. About 10:00 I realized that my prosthesis was gone! Shook my clothes-nothing...it was gone. About 11:00 DH called-he was headed home to pick up clothes as he was called out of town, so asked him to look on the bedroom floor cuz I just couldn't believe it would have fallen out at the gas station or convenience store without me noticing. 11:30 and 2 of my co-workers want me to come to the break room....acting very suspicious. I asked if I had lost something---walked in and they hosted a surprise "Hat Shower" for me (I got about 20 great hats). About 1:00 I am thinking that my bra just is not comfortable-reach down and my prosthesis was on the wrong side! Boy, did I have everyone laughing all afternoon. Good thing I have chemo tomorrow so won't be at work-or will it just give everyone an extra day to think up creative ways to help me out with my left and right!
KimB

zeppley

I finally found my remote in the freezer - and this is BEFORE I start treatment. Wonder what I'll be like with chemo brain - and how would I be able to tell?

At least I'll have an excuse then! LOL

DebraLynn

bumping up. You ladies are so funny

jejarvis

I keep taking the wrong exits when I'm driving somewhere. I have to really keep my mind on it, but still end up going the long way around! Several times I've missed my daughter's exit to her school and we've had to take another route. I wrote her an excuse note that said sorry she's tardy, it was due to her mother's chemobrain. Hope the office accepted it.

I work at 3 different locations in my job, and you won't believe the times that I've almost gone to the wrong office. I have to leave plenty early in case I space and start driving on auto pilot and get to the wrong office.\

Well, at least we can blame these silly things on chemo brain!!!!! I'm sure that I have done the same things before chemo.

Julie

NancyM

Today my husband found his hairbrush in the freezer, and he's not the one getting chemo! I think he may be having sympathy chemobrain and wanted to hide evidence of needing hair products of any kind.

NancyLee13

Hey, I just found all my nice hair brushes, curling irons and blow dryers. My sister had "put them away" last year when I lost my hair and neglected to tell me that she had done it. I've been looking all over for them and thought that I lost them when I lost my mind, but I found them hidden in the back of a closet out at my mom's house. I mentioned it to my sis and she said, Oh Yah,....... Anyway, I think that my Chemobrain is getting better except that I was looking for a certain shirt that I just have to wear to my Dr. appt. tomorrow and I found the bag full of bills from May that I had just about given up looking for. It was right there at the end of my bed under a pile of sweatshirts from our chilly Montana May. SIGH!! I still think I need a keeper, but all of my co-workers at the daycare swear they've caught chemo brain from me so they'd be no help!! Hope everyone had at least one really good laugh today--I did!! If nothing else, I can laugh at my goofy hairstyle..Life is good--Smiles--NancyLee

NancyLee13

Hello all my fuzzy brained friends--I just outdid myself in the forgetfulness department--It took me 7 tries to log on to this site just now--I couldn't for the life of me remember which password I was using--I log on almost every morning just to see how everyone is and I was here this very morning, but.......--How could something I use at least once a day totally escape my brain like that??? So I guess I'll once again send out this all points bulletin---If you see my mind running around out there--SEND IT HOME--It's WAY too little to be out there all by itself!! Thanks--Life is good--Smiles--NancyLee

NancyLee13

Hi all--I AM getting better in the memory department. I was just in the same hospital that I was in back in February for my gall bladder/appendix thingy. This time I knew the nurses, but some of them had a hard time remembering me until they saw my little "Cancer S*cks" bear that sits by my bed. I think it's because I have 5 more months of hair on my head. It was pretty short in Feb. And I actually remembered most of their names. Yup--I'm recovering my mind--just a little bit at a time. There is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow??? Life is Good--Smiles--NancyLee

NancyLee13

Good Morning--I got up this morning and flipped on the light switch for my big hanging light in the dining area. It didn't come on. I unscrewed the post and took off the shade and removed one bulb and shook it. It didn't sound bad and wasn't black but I replaced it. No light. So I did the same with bulbs 2, 3 and 4. I still had not light. I decided the switch must have gone bad. So I put the lens back on and screwed the post back. When I got the post all screwed back in and it was tight---Guess What??? It clicked once and ONE bulb came on! It clicked twice and TWO came on and it clicked 3 times and all FOUR bulbs came on. Silly ME!! I had for some reason shut it off at the light last night instead of at the switch and there was nothing wrong with the bulbs that I removed at all??!!?? I totally spaced out that you could turn the light on and off without using the switch. What a totally chemo brain moment. AH, Life is Good--Smiles--NancyLee

gracejon

Have had some issues with chemo brain but am not sure if I really believe it is do to chemo. My husband today was sure that I moved dog collar because he always takes it off the dog at night and always puts it in the same spot after taking it off. He did take it off and did put it in a different spot last night. So much for chemo brain unless it is catching. Husband has never had chemo!

tflowers

Bumping up. Thought we all need a smile today.

oldsambvca

I've had 3 AC treatments (last one is this Friday - YEA!!!) and chemo-brain has finally taken hold. At work last Friday, I was researching something for one of the company VP's when I suddenly, in the middle of looking, forgot what I was looking for. I sat at my PC dumbfounded and finally had to ask him what I was looking for. We had discussed several related items that I could have been looking for, so he wasn't sure which one I was on. He started naming things while I sat there helpless! He finally said the right word and it came back to me. I'm glad I work for a small, informal company! But to forget what you're doing in the middle of doing it...sheesh!

tflowers

I used to sing out loud to songs, but now I can't remember half of the words and sound like an idiot!!
Valerie, I'm the same way at work. I keep a notepad with me at all times and scribble words on it for remembering later.
Luckily we can laugh about it now.

NancyM

A couple of months ago I was trying to balance my checkbook without the calculator ('cause I couldn't find it) and for the life of me could not remember how to "carry over" to subtract a large number from a smaller one. Just sat there, staring at the numbers for awhile...eventually decided it was worth the effort to go look for the calculator. Now 7 weeks post chemo - wahoo! I can subtract as well as any fifth grader, and I'm dang proud of it!

dobiew2

WOW glad to see I am not the only one that has chemo brain. I have been driving my hubby crazy forgetting just about everything. BUT this is the topper.. . I did laundry and threw it into the dryer. My 7 year old wanted a shirt so I go into the dryer and NO CLOTHES. So i think I put them away and forgot. But no they are not in the dresser. I looked everywhere. It drove me nuts. Anyway about 2 days later hubby goes to pull a pizza out of the freezer and there are the clothes! The freezer sits near the dryer so I threw them in there! Don't ask me why .. but at least I gave my family a laugh

sierrasusieq

Leslie, that is one of the best yet!

saskia

Keep loosing my glasses.

Thought I left my perscription glasses at one of the shops, did the ring around checked the car, resigned myself to the lose and made an appointment to get another pair, in the mean time bought a cheap pair from the pharmacy.

Got home with the new perscription glasses, sat down that night to watch tv with DH he opens the consol and says, here are your glasses. Never mind I think, I will now have an extra pair, wore them that night, went no where, did nothing THE NEXT MORNING THEY HAD DISAPPEARED and I haven't found them since.

I am for ever looking for my glasses, I now have several pairs of the cheap ones and I keep on loosing those too, even do the trick of looking for them when they are there right on top of my bold head.

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kimmie11

These are funny! What I notice the most are lost words, talking and can't think of simple words, names of things mostly. So weird!!!
Kimmie

saskia

Yep lost words, and hopeless spelling GOD so frustrating.

christineK

All typos on these posts are forgiven and understood.

I had to fix some spelling on this post. It's been 9 mos since tx, I really can't blame chemo brain anymore...just my dyslexia and poor typing I supppose.

NancyLee13

Oh, my gosh, I did the same thing, but I realized it about 11 in the morning and told my co-workers that I had to go to the post office to get the mail. I went up to my house and retrieved the missing article!! I don't know how I could forget IT, but this fuzzy brain of mine does wonderous things. Life is Good-Smiles--NancyLee

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tflowers

At work last week I stapled all of the packing slips to the wrong invoice and sent them through to the accts payable clerk.. She was really cursing me out. Though they are used to my mistakes now and talking about keeping a list of the stupid things I do or forget.

Anonymous

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Yikes...! it's two months after chemo ended and I went out to teh shops this morning, came back and the doors were standing wide open! (now you have to realise, it's not something you do in sunny South Africa!) my fisrt thought was...oops, I'm being burgalled... then I realised I just left the house open and went shopping!

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Shoot, I did that before chemo. I forget to close the garage door and the side door into the mud room is unlocked.

OT...I just had to add that one of my daughters went to South Africa a few weeks ago and loved it. She brought me back a lovely wooden bowl and fork and spoon (salad bowl). May I ask, how do you clean it? Silly question I know.

Also, my other daughter and her hubby are getting ready to take off for Africa in January. They are traveling the "world." They're Land Cruiser is in the UK getting ready for the long, scary trip. Their truck will be their home. It has a tent on top. They will have a satellite phone and a web site set up so we can keep up with them and KNOW if they're still alive. They'll probably be gone at least two years and I'm scared to death. Oh, well...they are REALLY spreading their wings.
Shirley

NancyLee13

Isn't it nice that telephones are equipped with that little search feature? You just press the button on the stand and the little portable phone beeps wherever you last stuffed it. Like into the cushions on the back of the sofa where you couldn't hear it beep because you'd stuffed it so far into the cushions "for some reason" that the beep was completely muffled??!!?? So the phone rings and I can hear it ringing on the desk--but where did I put the handset?? After I searched for it for about half a day--I plopped down on the couch and something bumped against my back. Could it be the phone that I stuffed in there? Yah, now I remember. I was sitting on the couch talking to my sister and when we got done I thought I'd just stuff the phone into the cushion so that the cat didn't run across it and make a call like he did yesterday. Why not hang it up?? Who knows??? Anyway, that's my chemo-brain report for the month. It's getting better, but not going away. Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season. Here's hopin 2006 treats us all well. Life is Good--Smiles--NancyLee

midoubi

I can never find my cell phone. Once I left it in the freezer.

holli

Has anybody seen the Christmas prestent that I bought for my daughter and hid away until I could wrap it? I have looked everywhere that I can think and a few other places. I told her that I had one more thing for her but that my chemo brain put it away for awhile. I am hoping that I will run across it in time for Valentines day. But if not then I have until may for her birthday. She is 10 years old and is being pretty understanding of her old mom's diminishing mental capacities. I work in a nursing home and at first thought that the dimensia was starting to wear off on me but I am real glad that I am not really going crazy!!! LOL. Have had few good laughs on this post. Thanks!!

tflowers

Thanks, my son is wearing it.

tflowers

My problem is remembering names. Terrible anymore. I can't even try to introduce people. Just a blank stare trying to remember.