Where's My Remote?

NancyLee13

You are so funny. I filled out a bunch of Christmas cards a couple of weeks ago and addressed them and went to the post office and got holiday stamps to put on them and haven't been able to find them since. I think maybe my Mom was cleaning for the holidays and put them somewhere, but she's a little out there in the brain department and I suffer from this chemobrain thing so the two of us managed to lose them. I just called everyone up on Christmas or sent E-cards to the ones who I know have computers and helped to add to the clogged phone service and told them that I'd send the cards when and if I find them. It may be summer before that happens and postage is supposed to go up 2 cents at the start of the year. Well, it's too blizzardy to go to the post office anyway. I might not find my way back home. Keep smiling everyone--Happy 2006--Life is Good--NancyLee

DebraLynn

Let's bring this back to the top. I love this thread!

Had a hard time finding it though........

christineK

Lately everyone at work has been having some good laughs at my expense. I am a restaurant mgr, the other day was nice and sunny and I turned to everyone to let them know, "I am going to walk in the par.., I mean the zoo.., I mean to the bank!
I was going to see the movie, Glory Road and I said, "You know it's about cowboys, I mean basketball coaches.
I must learn to speak more slowly than my brain thinks!

straykat

Juanita's Christmas present?

Four of us finally got together on Saturday to exchange Xmas gifts. As I was putting them all in a bag that morning I realized that Juan's was nowhere to be found. Is it simply misplaced in the flotsam and jetsam of my home? Did I inadvertently give it to someone else who ignored the "To Juan from StrayKat" sticker? Is someone else the recipient of some really bad romance novel tripe that Juan loves so dearly?

kellieo

Three times my husband called me yesterday to remind me to get milk-one time I was in the grocery store=still forgot the milk. Boy, was my 15 yr. old daughter hot this AM.:)

Kellie

Fitztwins

I think I mailed an bill w/o a check!

rondab

I started to call my daughter this afternoon and couldn't remember her number. I stared at my cell phone for a minute before I remembered that all I had to do was hit "D" for Dani. I'm sure glad I found this thread! Ronda

NancyLee13

Oh, funny Ronda, I did something similar last evening. I picked up the portable phone and dialed my sister's number. Then I sat there and stared at the phone I guess looking for the send button. I'm so used to using my cell phone that it took me a moment to realize that I could faintly hear my sister saying "Hello, are you there?" and I was on a real phone and when I dialed the number--It actually called her. SIGH!! She just laughed at me and said that she does the same thing sometimes. Cell phones have messed with my mind. Yah right!! Hope everyone had a Super weekend. Life is Good--Smiles--NancyLee

batcitygirl

Hahahaha...I mailed a bill back to my self. DUH!
Angie

kimmie11

Today is Sunday, after work on Friday I came home took off my wig and haven't seen it since. I have no idea what I did with or what I am going to do if I can't find it this evening. It has to be some where. I tried calling it, haha, I asked the dogs if they have seen it (just a little worried about the way they looked at me). I have misplaced it before but I have always been able to find it pretty quick. I will be sure to give you girls an update.

Kimmie

DebraLynn

This isn't chemo brain, but...... the garage door opener, my house keys, credit card and the phone that belongs in my bedroom were all gone.
I had about had it. I left a note for my girls that there was a $5 reward for the phone, credit card and house keys. $10 reward for the garage door opener.
I found my phone on the family room table under some papers, (no reward) I found my credit card in my car (no reward) I found my house keys sitting right on the island counter in my kitchen (no reward)The garage door opener is still at large though.....

All these were missing within days of each other.

rondab

Kimmie - if you stopped at the grocery store on the way home Friday, you might check the cupboards, the frig, and the deep freeze. Ronda

kimmie11

My wig was found about 7 last night, just in time to get shampooed in time to wear today. It was in the laundry, I am quessing when I pulled it off Friday it got wrapped inside my shirt and the kids picked up clothes that were laying around.
Thank goodness! I have about an inch of hair, not thick enough to pull off the no hair thing yet. I do go around with just a hat on, not to often, just when I have had enough of the wig.
Kimmie

NancyLee13

Glad you found your wig Kimmie. Isn't it nice to find your lost stuff again no matter what it is? I've found that the search is kinda fun because usually in the process I find other stuff I've misplaced. I even find "stuff" I didn't realize I'd lost for example a coat that I wore 2 years ago probably every day that I apparently took off pre-surgery and "someone" hung it in my Mom's closet and I forgot about it totally. It even had $5.00 in the pocket and a grocery receipt from April of 2004. Wow! I'm wearing it again and everyone says, Oh, I remember that coat. Why'd you quit wearing it????? Why???? Cuz I forgot I owned it!!!!! Life is Good--Smiles--NancyLee

NancyLee13

The craziness lingers!!! I used my "jumper cables" to start my pickup and they dropped down into the mud when I finished so I threw them on top of my jeep to dry off. The next morning I got into my jeep and drove to town--10 miles away. Everyone I met was "Ultra" friendly waving and a lot of them were pointing UP when they met me. I didn't think too much of it until I got almost all the way to town, only a mile out, and I heard this scraping sound and look in my rearview mirror to see my cables go flying off the top and fall onto the highway. There was nobody behind me--Thank God--so I was able to back up and retrieve them. I felt like a complete idiot. In my defense, they are grey which is the same color as my jeep, but they do have black and red ends on them??? SIGH!! Life is Good--Smiles--NancyLee

kimmie11

Okay,
Misplacing things is one thing but time is the one I hate the most! Every since I found out about having cancer I have been upset that it happened my daughter's senior year, the year she turns 18 etc...So you would think it would be on my mine exactly when her b-day would be here,nope! I was laying in bed last night and thought holy shit (excuse me) her b-day is Sunday! I have nothing planned! Made a few calls today to invite everyone, decided to get her a lap top for college, I will get that tonight. I knew she wanted lasagna for dinner that day. Now to decide if I am going to buy or make a cake? Oh I have 2 days to decide that, haha!
Kimmie

mommy2baz

Oh my gosh, I am in tears from this thread!!! Today is my last day at work before a few days off next week for my biopsy (hoping B9!) and I *should* be getting work done, but nope, I'm sitting here (I work in a bank) and all the clients are staring at me because I'm in tears and laughing hysterically!



Thanks, I needed this



Kind of scary though that I can relate to many of these stories and I don't have chemo brain. The "page" button on the phone is one that I've done before. Searched all over the house for the phone, couldn't find it, I'm huffing and puffing so hubby says "just page it" - I walk into the kitchen, hit the page button and the phone starts beeping immediately - where is it? Oh, in my hand! I had to pick the phone OUT of the base to hit the page button and didn't even realize *sigh*



There's also the time I called my cell's voicemail from my home phone (to save minutes) and then promptly answered MYSELF when my cell phone started to ring...

rondab

Kimmie - something similar happened to me this week. Doug's birthday was Wednesday. I didn't remember to wish him happy birthday until his son called him right before Doug left for work! I had a card for him, but couldn't find it. I was about to cry I felt so stupid! Ronda

gracejon

I had been doing great for me with memory issues and had found all unchanged from even before diagnosis until this WEEK! In the morning husband uses masterbath shower and I use bathroom outside our bedroom door. I got up, took a shower, went back into bedroom, got dressed and went to walk out to kitchen, I saw the bathroom light and and mumbled to myself about darn kid wasting electricity by leaving bathroom light on all night. Hello, your hair is dripping wet still and I really less than five minutes ago walked out of that bathroom. TALK ABOUT SCARY!

Aggie84

I love all the great stories. I have had similar things happen to me too, but guess what (CHEMOBRAIN) I can't remember the details!

Oh, I've lost receipts I was keeping for rebates-you know I put it it a real safe place....

One of the things I have noticed the most is that I forget phone numbers, social security numbers, etc that I should know.

I want to know what kind of Chemo all of you had! Let's find out the culprit of chemobrain!

susanmcm

LOL I love it.

Quote:

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I do whatever my Rice Krispies tell me to...

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I wish my Rice Krispies were smarter.



Susan

DebraLynn

Hello everyone.
Six months later, I found my garage door opener. It was with my piano rolls, where else should it have been ?????

Debra

straykat

In mid-December, I was at my local H.R. Block office having estimated taxes for 2005 prepared. I had a list of costs prepared but had not totaled them. The tax preparer asked the total and I asked her for a...a... My right-hand fingers started dancing on the desk and I said, "The thing!
The numbers! The thing with the numbers!"

She calmly gave me her calculator and I added the figures.

Friday I went back to file 2005 taxes. I thought I'd remind her of our previous encounter to add an air of levity to this heavy tax discussion. I began with, "And so my fingers were drumming on the desk and I tried to ask for a...a..." I couldn't remember the punch line!

Sne wordlessly shoved her calculator toward me.

Sigh.

NancyLee13

Gosh, I just came back and was reading the posts in this thread and I saw your "Rice Krispies" statement and fell off my chair laughing. Thanks--I needed that. NancyLee

MrsBee

I've become really entertaining since chemo-brain hit me. When I found out that my exchange surgery and hysterectomy aren't until April 24, I told DH, "Well, it will give me time to get the horse . . . .um, HOUSE . . . organized."

With regard to the commercial where the guy is giving a presentation to a roomful of monkeys, I said, "Often in my teaching, I've felt like I was dealing with a mouthful . . . . um, ROOMFUL . . . of monkeys."

And everything is a "dilly-wopper" or a "thingie" or a "whizdilly" now. The funny thing is . . . DH understands me! Half the time, he says, "Whosamawhachamacallit" anyway!

rondab

I went into the post office Tuesday to get a money order to send to my son. I said "I need a $50, uh, thing, you know like a check?" Luckily, the woman working had seen me in there before and just smiled and said don't worry honey, we all forget things. Then she asked how I was doing. She was so nice! My son did call tonight tho to make sure I'd sent the money. He calls me chemo head. I told him it was chemo brain, but he said chemo head covers the bald head and everything inside (or not inside). He loves me tho. Ronda

DebraLynn

Two things.
1. My doctor called about my ultrasound. He said I needed to go into the office to get a cyst removed and remove the thickening of my lining caused by tamoxifen. I said, 'Oh, ok' and he said, 'it's nothing to worry about, remember we did this last year?' I was quiet for a few seconds and finally admitted, "no, I don't remember" He said, 'you don't remember?" NOPE. I am sure he is writing 'knucklehead' in my chart....
2. I posted a reply on one of the boards. I know I did. Well, I went on the same thread again and my post wasn't there. I'm thinking, what the heck? Did I not hit the submit button? So, I posted a response. A few minutes later I am on another topic and there is the same post with the same response from me. I was so confused........ It took me a few minutes to realize there were two posts.... okay, maybe not confused, maybe not really with it????

NancyLee13

So I drove to town today and went to the daycare to get my end of the month papers to work on at home. I forgot to get half of them, but that's beside the point. I got back in my vehicle and reached for my cell phone and couldn't find it. So thinking it was under the seats in my jeep or I'd taken it in the daycare, I went back inside and used the telephone to call my cell. I couldn't hear it ringing in the daycare so I left it ringing and ran out to my vehicle where I couldn't hear it either. I went back in and left a message on my own voice mail that said "Where are you?" Then I drove back to the country and came into the ranch house & guess what?????? I could hear my cell phone beeping because I had a voice mail!!! I had never even taken it out of the charger when I left the house. I ALWAYS take it. What's up with that????

iodine

Hey, I'm still trying to figure out what all mine does, gift from my daughter and I can ans. and make a call. Other than that it's WAY too much and I had a car phone when they first came out, I was on the road for 11 years.
So, Ms. Nance, I'm impressed you knew to leave a message, and that it would beep to you. LOL

Hana

My husband took our puppy for walk first thing in the morning while I was making myself tea. I was also boiling couple eggs. Somehow I managed to leave the electric cable from the kettle touching the stove's burner that was on, and by the time I smelled something, it was on fire.

I couldn't think of any lame excuse about the smell in the apartment, so I told my husband the truth. While listening to his rumbling about how much the new kettle will cost, I was trying to find the plastic lid from our coffee maker.

I just emptied the dishwasher, I had clean carafe in my hand and I couldn't remember what I did with the plastic lid. I knew I didn't put it in the dishwasher - I never do. After a while there was only one place where it could be. Most likely I put it in the garbage.
However - I couldn't look in the garbage, because my husband just took it out after I disposed the damaged tea kettle in it. (We live on third floor). So when my husband came back upstairs I had to tell him that I need to go downstairs to check the garbage bag he just took out.
He wished me good luck as the garbage people had emptied the huge dumpster by our building just before he came down and our garbage is at the very bottom of the bin. He said that I won't be able to reach down and retrieve it. I started to look for something to help me to reach and pull our garbage out of the bin (I didn't have guts to ask him to go and get it), but there was my husband already with his golf umbrella as a tool for garbage retrieving, going out of the door again. I had to admire him for staying cool and I tried not to laugh watching him leaving with this huge umbrella. As soon as the door closed I laughed so hard that I had to go to change. I just couldn't believe how stupid I am.
And yes, the lid was in the garbage. It was shoved inside of the kettle and it was a mirracle that my husband managed to pull it out. Our new kettle is cordless.