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I have done many stupid things, but with my darn chemo brain can't remember a single one, but you ladies are giving me a good laugh!
LuAnn -
LuAnn, I was thinking the same thing. I CAN'T REMEMBER! Maybe later.
I have laughed at you (not with you) gals. Laughter is good. I hope the stories don't end too soon.
Loved the glitter, throwing water in faces, wiping with wipes where you ain't suppose to wipe, backing into vehicles as big as a garbage truck (I'll be sure to tell hubby about that one when I do something stupid while driving..need excuses), oh, and all the other silly things that are written that I can't remember.
I wonder if we "belly laugh" if that would be good exercise to get RID of the belly. We ARE using muscles.
Shirley -
What a great thread!
I was getting ready to spend the day with a friend. I could not beleive how well my hair looked that morning (OK maybe chemo brain should have decreased as hair grew in!) and I sprayed bathroom cleaner (foam) instead of hairspray!
The worst thing--my dog kept getting into the trash. (Mind you this is while I was on chemo) and I put the trash can on my stove. I have the glass top type that looks like a counter. Somehow--and I totally do not remember doing this--I turned on the stove top and it ignited. Flames everywhere. My poor 8 year old was crying. DH was asleep and when he didn't come down like lightning I called the fire dept. They came and were so so nice. (By the time they came DH had gotten it outside.)
They ended up putting the fireman's helmet on Joe and of course, I had to take a photo of Joe with the fireman with the cool helmet on. My DH watched on shaking his head.
My vinyl floor still has the marks from some of the falling flames. A rug nicely covers it for now. -
This is a funny, scary thread!
One day during chemo I went to Safeway to get a few groceries. Paid for them, went to put my new sunglasses on - no sunglasses. I asked the clerk if I could leave my groceries as I needed to look for something. Looked all over the store - no luck. I went back to get my groceries and the very young clerk said "what are you looking for" I said sunglasses - she said "they're on your head". Sure enough they were perched on my wig.
I'm also have a lot of trouble with my glass top stove - I keep turning on the wrong burner and I've burned the plastic knobs of the pot lids, etc.
One day (prechemo) I decided to make popcorn with the hot air popper. I got out the popper, a bowl and some popcorn. Turned the popper one, put the bowl in front of it and put the popcorn in the bowl. DH came in a watched me watching the pocorn in the bowl with hot air blowing on it - said "why don't you use your blow dryer"! It hadn't occured to me why the popcorn wasn't popping! -
Hysterical! I would have to say my "best" chemo brained stunt was: I went to a restaurant to pick up lunch for my co-workers and I, I got into my car, placed the food in the passenger seat, started my car and pulled into traffic with my freakin door open! Thank goodness I put my seat belt on!!
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I'm still laughing! Geez, we need to start a chemo brain comedy show. No one would believe some of these stories.
Shirley -
Hi all - I have been lurking for a for a few months and feel that I know all of you, and after reading this thread just have to introduce myself (I'm Sue) and tell my chemo-brain story. A few weeks ago darling hubby gently suggests to me that I might want to wash the towels in the laundry basket - as he puts it "something really smells bad". I, of course, insist it is because he has been putting wet towels in there to get moldy. But, WHOA! He's right, it really does smell bad! Good thing the towel basket is out in the garage! I put the laundry in the machine and find raw chicken wrapped up in one of the towels where I guess it has been rotting for the better part of a week. At some point I must have washed it and patted it dry with a kitchen towel (for dinner of course), and then threw everything in my laundry basket. The funny thing is - I have NO idea what we ate for dinner that night!
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Okay - I have another one! I just did this as I was preoccupied trying to learn how to make my first (previous) post on these discussion boards. Honestly! My 14 year old son just walked downstairs and asked me "What is that fog in the kitchen!!?" I was trying to clean out a pan I had burned food onto and was boiling it on the stove with dishwasher soap and water to try to clean it off. Yes, I know, really, really, dumb! And of course I forgot about it so it burned down to a even more blackened pan. Just like I forgot about the food in the pan when I burned it onto the pan in the first place. So I have created a toxic brew in the house and we now have to leave for a few hours. And believe it or not - I'm actually (usually) a smart and competent person! And I'm not sure I have any excuses, I've been out of chemo for 4 months!
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I am so glad I found this post - I have tears running down my face I am laughing so hard - I don't think I've laughed this hard since who knows when.
Thanks guys cause I'm bumming that on top of everything else tonight I got a speeding ticket - I didn't even know I was speeding and if the guy at the stop sign hadn't looked at me funny I wouldn't have realized the cop was behind me with his lights on, I can see me just driving until he used his siren to get my attention. -
One morning as I was getting ready my 2 year old was sitting on my bed playing with a basket of laundry that I had started folding. She was having a great time putting on Daddy's boxers and pretending they were pants.
A few minutes later I picked her up and we were out the door to go to day care. At the end of the day I picked her up in her classroom and her teacher (laughing as she said this) says to me "uh, before you go take a look under S's dress." Huh? I wondered - why is this woman telling me to look under my kids dress? But - this is a great teacher so I humor her and pull the dress up.
OMG. My daughter has a pair of MY panties on around her waist! She had her little waist in both the waist of my panties and one leg hole. They had been on her all day - guess the teacher didn't want to take them off.
All I can say is I was thankful she'd been playing in a basket of clean laundry!!!!!!!!
Thanks for this thread - I needed the laugh. I LOVE the chicken in the towel story. I could do that! -
You girls are priceless! i too have tears from laughter! Which is a good thing. I'm 4 months out of my last TX but still use chemo brain for an excuse when needed.
Keep up the laughter and keep track of chicken, blackened pans and especially your underwear!
Karen -
This thread is hilarious!
DH and I were watching tv in bed and he was telling me a story. I'm trying to pay attention and I was getting frustrated and said 'Hurry up and finish your sandwich' instead of 'hurry up and finish your sentence'. We both cracked up laughing!
keep em coming ladies!
Lynn -
Wow, these are funny,
I've done the blackened pan ( except it was a tea kettle ), and the glasses on top of the head thing,locking myself out of the house, car, etc. etc. too
Gsg, I think yours is the funniest. I KNOW I could do that with The glass of water.
Thanks ladies it really makes me feel like I am not the only goofy one out there.
and to think I used to be Type A & super organized!
Keep 'em coming!
Linda -
I just found this thread...what a hoot! I am laughing my little bald butt of right now!
I would share my own chemo brain story, but I can not seem to remember what happened -
when I tried to explain to two other nurses about a patient who had been referred to our skilled nursing facility. He'd fallen off a ladder and hit his head.
I told them he had a subarchnoid hemorrhoid.
He had a subarchnoid hemorrhage and hematoma.
There was mass hilarity in the office when I realized what I'd said.
Then I told my coworkers that obviously 4 hours was enough for today and I needed to go home. So I did. -
Iowacindy that is hilarious! definately my laugh for the day....THANKS! hugs
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IowaCindy, you remind me of the gal who called my husband back to the doctor's office. Instead of saying, Mr. Hughes, she said March 22. And of course realized that she didn't call the name, but instead the date while reading the folder. We cracked up. And, as far as I know, she doesn't have chemo brain AND was young!
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I've never once locked my keys in my car. Did it twice on chemo. Something told me last January to get a cell phone and AAA. Diagnosed in Feb. Thank goodness!!!
I still blame everything on chemo brain and it's been almost 9 months since my last chemo!
Julie -
Ladies I seem to have chemo brain everytime I walk out the door....I'm always walking right back in the house to get something...my keys, my coat, the item I wanted to return, my lunch for work -- whatever it is always something. My daughter commented the other day that everything I leave the house now she counts..."one, two, three, four", she says its usually by "four" that I'm back inside getting whatever I forgot. She says "you never leave the house, just once!! she's right!!! and I'm 2 plus years from chemo...deb I have many other "chemo brain" moments that I'm not remembering now...expect whenever I brush it up to chemo, my husband says "what?? you were always like this!!! - not quite true -- it has gotten worse! deb
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I was going to a friend's house to put clean sheets on her bed. Her husband almost (literally) chopped off his hand with a chain saw. So, for now he only has the use of one arm. And she has rheumotoid arthritis soooo bad that she can't do many things. Well, I had the brownies right by my purse and walked right out without them. I got to their house and as soon as I turned the car off, unlocked the door I REMEMBERED that I had left the brownies at home. I went back to get them. Darn, I wish I had been like you, deb, and gone back in the house before leaving.
And, I left the ice cream out. But who doesn't do that.
Shirley -
You guys are so funny!! So far I have baked a spoon into my brownies, my daughter cut into the brownies and found the large serving spoon that I used to scrape the brownie batter out of the bowl. I also put an opened package of hot dogs in the cupboard were I keep the sandwich bags. I didn't discover the hotdogs until they were all shriveled up. hee hee.
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Here's one (and I haven't even had chemo--just hormone therapy!):
I began LYMPHEDEMA treatments in February. The visits consisted of a short massage, then wrapping my arm with multiple layers of padding and bandages. I would wear the bandages as long as possible, then put them in a bag to take to the next appointment where we'd do it all over again. I had been doing this routine for nearly two weeks. So, I'm 55 minutes into the hour-long trip to the appointment when I realize I left the bandages at home! DUH! It was too late to turn back to get the bandages...good grief! What did I think I was getting in the car to go do?! When I told my therapist, she just laughed and said she'd see me tomorrow.
An interesting exchange between my husband and I at bedtime the other night: I can't remember what we were talking about, but I do remember asking him to repeat himself several times. At one point, he kind of nudged me...evidently, he had asked a question that required a response. "Oh, so you think I'm a dumba$$, huh?" he says.
"What?" said I. "Did I say that out loud?" -
Well I took a friend's tv remote control home for some unknown reason a few years back and just a few days ago I wanted to bake a chicken and start cooking real food again after being laid up from the bilat. So I prepared it, put all the veggies around it and sprinkled on the herbs and seasonings and then opened up the dishwasher and almost put it in there to cook!
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This is the BEST laugh Ive had in ages. Come on everyone who is only reading share your stories too.
Like some others, I skipped chemo, doing hormone therapy, nevertheless one night I rush home from work late and exhausted, and very glad to have already thought out a dinner to have (and all ingreadients in frig). Throw the chicken and other ingredients into to the pan and then into the oven. Tell hubby dinner will be a bit late. Go to take it out and find out oven was never turned on! Glad we have a Ruby Tuesdays close by.
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hahah man can i relate to this stuff!!!
after grocery shopping i have found cookies in the freezer and freezer goods in the pantry.
at night when i am on my computer and i want a drink it ususally takes me three trips to the kichen, first two i munch on something cause i am not sure what i am doing in there.... usually 3rd i get it right...
leaving home and forgetting something is not so unusual... hehehehehehehe but i have a super long drive way and a huge gate i got to go in and out of... pain in the butt... yep!!!!!!!!!!!
mmmmm let me think of some others... cause i know there are lots
tracey -
One morning I couldnt remember if my tooth brush was the white one or the green one. My husband just shook his head. The only way I could fix the problem was to go out and get a new one. This time its pink.
Nicki -
Laughing so hard!!!!
A few days after my first chemo treatment, I went to the store for something specific, but couldn't remember when I got there, so just wandered aimlessly and picked up a few items, (frozen.) When I got home, I set the bags on the coffee table and sat down on the couch(right by the table) and started watching TV. It was over an hour before I realized that I hadn't put the popsicles, etc. into the freezer!!
I had a crazy chemo-brain dream yesterday......I had been stressing about finances all day, and had been working on my taxes, too, so I guess that's what prompted this dream. I dreamed that I was at the doctor's office, and they told me that I had to have another surgery to place something else in my chest, something that would make everything so much easier for the people that needed to treat me. (I already have a port.) They were rushing around, ignoring me, trying to get me in immediately, when I finally said, "Wait - what exactly are you going to put into me?" Then the nurse told me that they were going to place into my chest a CARD READER MACHINE so that they could just swipe a credit card whenever I came in for treatments!!!!! Is this in our future?????
Marshabel -
I was on my way for my last chemo tmt last September and was really pumped. I noticed a flashing red light in my mirror and pulled over and was shocked to see the cop pull over behind me. He asked me if I knew what I had done and I can honestly say I had no idea. He told me that I stopped at the red light and then proceeded to turn left, right in front of him! Soooo, I said - "We don't have left on red yet, do we??" He said no and then I asked him if they were working on that. He laughed and let me go.
Last week I had to make an appt. for my 1 yr. mammo. My bs sent me a script for a diagnostic mammo. I called for an appt, they asked when my last film was and I replied last May. I wanted an appt. for April so my bs will have it when I go see her and that is the date on the script. The secretary said unless I have a history, mammos are only covered once a year and I would be charged if I have the imaging done before May 4th. She asked me if I have any history requiring more frequent tests - and I said NO!! What an idiot I am. She asked why a bs wrote the script and then I replied that I have BC. She said - "Sandy, we consider that a history. You can have mammos every day and they would be covered by your insurance." I explained that I live in the "Land of Denial". I would love to see what notes are on my chart for my next appt. -
I keep watering my hand! I'm in the habit of getting an ice cube from the refrigerator dispenser for my coffee, but since I don't want it to plop into my coffee cup I usually put my hand out. For some reason lately, I keep pushing the water button instead of the ice button and keep getting a nice handful of ice water. But it probably wakes me up better than the coffee does! I am truly scary in the kitchen these days!
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Oh, Nicki, I wasn't confused about the toothbrush. I used my toothbrush and thought this brush feels great..fits well into my mouth, etc. thoughts. I told my DH about it and he said that it was HIS toothbrush that I had used. Yuck!
Shirley
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