Does any one come to a blank every now and then after going through chemo treatments.

hounddog
hounddog Member Posts: 115
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
Hello I went through a total of four chemo treatments and my last treatment was June the 10th .I find out I some times come to a blank on things is that normal or what. For instance I can not remember cable being hooked up in our bedroom at all and that is upsetting me and I get upset when I come to a blank.
Marilyn

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  • lindatn
    lindatn Member Posts: 229
    #2
    Hi, wish I could say it will soon go away but it has been 18 months since I had chemo. Here is how it goes at this house, I bought a lovely red Christmas flower whose name I know but as of tonight can't spell. Three hours or so after I brought it home I had forgotten which room it was in. Did remember it is posionous to dogs and since I have many in the house, I was concerned. I have a fairly small house so of course wasn't far, shut in my bedroom. Not the dogs but the flower. Be glad we are here to smell the roses, no it was not roses but I can spell that. Don't sweat the small stuff and as long as you pay the cable bill no one cares if you remember when it was put in. It was thirty days or less if you haven't received a bill. Linda
  • Snookums
    Snookums Member Posts: 148 Member
    #3
    lindatn said:

    Hi, wish I could say it will soon go away but it has been 18 months since I had chemo. Here is how it goes at this house, I bought a lovely red Christmas flower whose name I know but as of tonight can't spell. Three hours or so after I brought it home I had forgotten which room it was in. Did remember it is posionous to dogs and since I have many in the house, I was concerned. I have a fairly small house so of course wasn't far, shut in my bedroom. Not the dogs but the flower. Be glad we are here to smell the roses, no it was not roses but I can spell that. Don't sweat the small stuff and as long as you pay the cable bill no one cares if you remember when it was put in. It was thirty days or less if you haven't received a bill. Linda

    Sorta like a word for an object and instead of phone you say blender? What? Yes, I suffer those brain cross wires and total blanks. I imagine it's the total of all the "mess/chemicals" in my body as well as the fact I am going thru menopause now and that in itself is always associated with "duh" monents. I just grin and bear it and hope it will get better in time. I believe it will and that helps. (Plus, I do A LOT of laughing at myself!) Blessings- C as the book I love says . . . don't sweat the small stuff.
  • csteinbrecher1
    csteinbrecher1 Member Posts: 2
    #4
    Marilyn:

    We call it "Chemo-Brain" around my house... I had my last chemo last January and I still have moments when I can't remember what I was talking about or what I was doing...My husband is very understanding and says..."It will come back to you if it was important!!" It is so much easier to laugh about the "small stuff" rather than stress.. After all I believe most cancer comes from "stressing the small stuff" and not living life...

    Enjoy life and be happy you are still here to enjoy it.. If "chemo-brain" is the after-effect I have to endure for living my life...no problem..

    I hope this helps...

    Carol
  • jeancmici
    jeancmici Member Posts: 665 Member
    #5
    csteinbrecher1 said:

    Marilyn:

    We call it "Chemo-Brain" around my house... I had my last chemo last January and I still have moments when I can't remember what I was talking about or what I was doing...My husband is very understanding and says..."It will come back to you if it was important!!" It is so much easier to laugh about the "small stuff" rather than stress.. After all I believe most cancer comes from "stressing the small stuff" and not living life...

    Enjoy life and be happy you are still here to enjoy it.. If "chemo-brain" is the after-effect I have to endure for living my life...no problem..

    I hope this helps...

    Carol

    I am obstinate and remain of another opinion. Since I noticed even before cancer that stress and a lot going on tends to do things to one's memory, I firmly believe it is the stress accompanying all we go thru - all the unknowns and when they become known do not make it much easier many times.

    For you with jobs and families and all that goes with that - and unhelpful or stressed out hubbies also, my admiration is there - being alone as I am is no fun either - but when I have to eat, I don't have anyone to rely on or blame except myself if I don't eat right.It would make me feel worse if someone were around and not helpful.

    I'm always looking for something - but I was before cancer too - always glad I live on a one floor plan.

    Jean
  • live42day
    live42day Member Posts: 64
    #6
    It has been 19 months since my last of 8 chemo treatments, and I find myself repeating things that I have already said. Once in a while I will realize it and say, "I guess I already told you did't I." It makes you feel llike alzheimers is setting in. Some Drs admit that chemo does affect your brain cells. My boys tell me I didn't have any to spare. Ha! I worked through chemo and I though that would have helped keep my brain active, but if it did, all I can say is I'm glad I worked. We just have to laugh at ourselves and appreciate the fact that we are still here to get confused.
    Janet
  • marytres
    marytres Member Posts: 144
    #7
    lindatn said:

    Hi, wish I could say it will soon go away but it has been 18 months since I had chemo. Here is how it goes at this house, I bought a lovely red Christmas flower whose name I know but as of tonight can't spell. Three hours or so after I brought it home I had forgotten which room it was in. Did remember it is posionous to dogs and since I have many in the house, I was concerned. I have a fairly small house so of course wasn't far, shut in my bedroom. Not the dogs but the flower. Be glad we are here to smell the roses, no it was not roses but I can spell that. Don't sweat the small stuff and as long as you pay the cable bill no one cares if you remember when it was put in. It was thirty days or less if you haven't received a bill. Linda

    Hi ladies, it still happens to me too and it'll be 4 years in Feb. So let's not sweat it and be happy we're alive. I feel sooo old at times!!! So I understand all of you. Oh, by the way Linda, the Christmas flower is called a poinsetta. Merry Christmas to all. Marie
  • jake10
    jake10 Member Posts: 202
    #8
    lindatn said:

    Hi, wish I could say it will soon go away but it has been 18 months since I had chemo. Here is how it goes at this house, I bought a lovely red Christmas flower whose name I know but as of tonight can't spell. Three hours or so after I brought it home I had forgotten which room it was in. Did remember it is posionous to dogs and since I have many in the house, I was concerned. I have a fairly small house so of course wasn't far, shut in my bedroom. Not the dogs but the flower. Be glad we are here to smell the roses, no it was not roses but I can spell that. Don't sweat the small stuff and as long as you pay the cable bill no one cares if you remember when it was put in. It was thirty days or less if you haven't received a bill. Linda

    I loved your humerous reply. I did not have chemo, but had a long surgery with complications and such, had the lapses too.
    I told everyone that half my intellegence was in my Right Breast.
    Beth
  • SweetSue
    SweetSue Member Posts: 217
    #9
    eating salmon helps
  • hummingbyrd
    hummingbyrd Member Posts: 950 Member
    #10
    SweetSue said:

    eating salmon helps

    Make sure if it's farm raised you don't eat more than one serving a month. Apparently the water they raise them in is high in PCB which, of course, is a cancer causing agent.
    God bless, hummb

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