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Mary-Lou
Mary-Lou Member Posts: 2,230
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

OMG! Is this ever going to go away? I was just doing the dishes and dawning the rinse water. Well went to put some dish towels in the laundry room, (Just off the kitchen) started the washer and proceeded to do laundry duty.

Meanwhile back at the sink....

YES, IT WAS RUNNING ALL OVER THE FLOOR> Thank goodness I have a flip-it so I sucked the water up pretty fast.

I can't go down to the guest room , I just know it came through the ceiling. That room is now pretty clear to make room for my crafts this fall and winter. 

Sorry , I just had to vent.

And today is my third year of survivor-ship....I will be going out tonight with my hub, hope that turns out alright. I may forget to get out of the shower and turn into a prune.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2008

    Oh, my dear sister!!!!!  

    Chemo brain is an incessant pain in the pruney behind.  It seems to never go away!  I made a frozen pizza a few weeks ago, and turns out I cooked the cardboard piece it comes on!!! 

    Happy cancer-versary to you, happy cancer-versary to you, happy cancer-versary dear ML, happy cancer-versary to you!!!!  Love to you, Deb

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  • BernadetteD
    BernadetteD Member Posts: 13
    edited September 2008

    Made coffee twice this week without putting the pot under the machine and came back to a flooded counter and silverware drawer. Well, at least it got cleaned. Not sure I didn't do this sort of thing before chemotherapy but definitely am doing it now! Yikes

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  • Mary-Lou
    Mary-Lou Member Posts: 2,230
    edited October 2008

    Deb~ Thanks for the song....beautiful voice Kiss

    Bernadette~ Oh the coffee thing...yes been there done that. About the clean part, I did get the floor out of the way.

    I best get in the shower, Michael is taking me to Outback! I have not been there in a good while.

    I can smell that Blooming Onion already ummmmmmmmm

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  • Mary-Lou
    Mary-Lou Member Posts: 2,230
    edited September 2008

    I had a wonderful night last night, the girl who had our table told her manager what I was celebrating and sent use free cheese cake. It was so good!

    Tonight we were coming home from my son's and I was talking about a movie that Drew Barrymore was in and said Berry drew more....I have truly lost it sisters Yell

    BTW~ Guest room was fine, just one small spot when hubby looked.

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  • Sierra
    Sierra Member Posts: 1,638
    edited October 2008

    I am several years out

    and surely still have

    chemo brain or chemo fog

    whatever .. believe there is a new

    book out now on Amzon

    called Chemofog

    Hugs, Sierra

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  • Mary-Lou
    Mary-Lou Member Posts: 2,230
    edited October 2008

    Thanks Sierra, I will have to check that out.

    I know that this chemofog is real, and I really find it to be embarrassing more than I would like. The loss of words is maybe the worst part. I can see something and not be able to put it into words.

    I know what I want to say, but can't speak. Embarassed

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  • OneBadBoob
    OneBadBoob Member Posts: 1,386
    edited October 2008

    Oh my--I hear you load and clear!!

    As far as the coffee goes, I either forget to put the coffee in and have nice, hot water, or I forget to put the water in and have nothing!!

    And when I take a shower, I have to line up the shampoo, conditioner and body wash, and use them one at a time, and move them, or I forget what I did or did not do!!

    As far as errands, I have to make a list--and cross off what I have done or I really don't remember--also have to write down when I feed the dog---figured that out after she started getting a little chubby. . .

    Someone please tell us there is an end to this!

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  • Mary-Lou
    Mary-Lou Member Posts: 2,230
    edited October 2008

    I don't think there is, I really don't. Sometimes I think I am worse than I was. I have to have a list....or I never remember things on my own. It is only after I return from the store that I remember what I went there for in the first place.

    Grrrrrrrr

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2008

    My poor hubby-he gets annoyed sometimes that he has to remember that I am in Target for soap and razor cleaner (today's issue).  He can't understand why I forget that, but remember what I was wearing the first time he and I went to a carnival, or that I made a phone out of construction paper on my first day of kindergarten. 

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  • cmb35
    cmb35 Member Posts: 1,106
    edited October 2008

    Last year, I could not remember the anniversary date of my mother's death (Nov 18th), I knew it was either Nov 14th or 18th, but I couldn't remember which. I have also "forgotten" how old my son is (although so far I have always remembered he was born in 96), just today I was trying to remember the name of my gynocologist (no luck yet) and I worry that people think I have OCD in the grocery store as I check, and re-check my list against what's in my cart because the second I'm done checking the list I've already forgotten whether or not it's in there.

    It makes me CRAZY when my friends say, "oh that happens to me all the time, I forget things all the time." Is is NOT the same thing, and I'm pretty sure if they do momentarily forget something, they are able to remember it. They probably don't have to subtract 96 from 2008 to figure out how old their child is. It reminds me of a post I read a long time ago here, where a woman couldn't remember how old her granddaughter was (she was 11.) She had helped take care of her since she was a baby, and was very close to her. Someone asked her how old she was, and she wasn't able to tell her. She said she just started crying she was so mad and sad and frustrated. It just about broke my heart when I read it.

    Yikes, sorry for being a downer!!

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  • magsandmattsmom
    magsandmattsmom Member Posts: 424
    edited October 2008
    Yesterday I took my son to urgent care.  I couldn't remember his birth date or is middle initail.  I felt sooooooooooooo dumb. Embarassed I'm 5 years out.  I truly believe chemo does a number.
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  • farila_1966
    farila_1966 Member Posts: 224
    edited October 2008

    What is chemo brain?? huh huh huh???? Oh .. I can vaguely remember it is something to do with forgetfullness.. hmmmm Now why am I here? what am I typing ... Wink

    OK OK I am kidding...  I am not that worse but there have been situations where I have felt that way.. not knowing why I am at a place after planning and getting there for a particular reason. I know one thing for sure that chemo brain never touches the memories of bad things that you would love to go away...

    BTW I am now 12 years out .. it has not been going up or down since my Chemo.

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited October 2008

    Recently my mom and I were going to the movies.  I was driving.  Halfway there I couldn't remember what we were doing or where we were going.  It truly was unnerving having to ask her.

    They're having something on Chemobrain on this website on October 15th.  They've had them before but I always forget.

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  • Mary-Lou
    Mary-Lou Member Posts: 2,230
    edited October 2008

    I remember leaving my house to pick up the cat at the vet, got to the middle of town and went blank. The vet is 2 miles from my home.

    Another time I was  writing something and had to write my husbands name, could not for the life of me spell Michael. That time I really lost it......I broke down like a child that couldn't find it's mommy. And for the first time really felt lost, and frightened. And yes very, very , STUPID! Cry

    Gsg~ Love your signature.......that says it all doesn't it?

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  • Mary-Lou
    Mary-Lou Member Posts: 2,230
    edited October 2008
    Deb~ That is the truth.....and I wonder why I can't forget the stuff I want to go away. Seems I can recall every step.
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