Brain retriveal issues

Kerry S said:

I kid you not
I finished my chemo/rad 8/08. I kid you not, look down on my past post of "fix for chemo brain". Anger brought it back for me. It also hit me big time a just few months back.

Chemo brain is great for getting out of trouble!!!!!

Kerry

chemo brain
Yup! I have a bad case of it too. I had already spent 10 yrs trying to get my thyroid tamed and dealing with the 'brain fog' of that disease and now to top it off chemo gave me a hellacious smack in the grey matter.

My onc assured me that it would get better now that I'm off chemo. It hasn't. I have a daily planner and to back that up I have a spiral notebook with same info in it, and to back that up I have sticky notes decorating my fridge.....and I still forget stuff. All of this would probably make me chuckle but my parents are both terminally ill and I am their caretaker and it would help if I could get organized and then remember what it was that I organized!

Kerry brother, you trip me out.I wish anger would *fix* me like it did you.I just have to laugh about it all. Makes me feel better than crying does.

-Pat

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these clips of Tim
these clips of Tim Conway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5BMVmOWzfk
some of the Johnny Carson ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbikKb_t0i0
and Betty White
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxL7MKsGoPo


had me laughing so hard during chemo I can't sleep nights. Betty White in particular-

Huh?
What was the question???
I find for every new thing I learn something else (like my second phone number) gets shoved out. I've reached max info, I need an upgrade. Brain V 4.5.6.

Some things I have an incredible memory for, other things like what I ate 2 days ago I do not recall. I'm very good with names and faces but I've always been like that. I don't find that it really has anything to do with what is important, just some things are ingrained more than others for me. Chemo doesn't help neither does getting older, having more to remember, etc.

PhillieG said:

Huh?
What was the question???
I find for every new thing I learn something else (like my second phone number) gets shoved out. I've reached max info, I need an upgrade. Brain V 4.5.6.

Some things I have an incredible memory for, other things like what I ate 2 days ago I do not recall. I'm very good with names and faces but I've always been like that. I don't find that it really has anything to do with what is important, just some things are ingrained more than others for me. Chemo doesn't help neither does getting older, having more to remember, etc.

What was the topic again?
I didn't do chemo, and I still have the same ailments. My wife will
tell me all week about the time of her appointment, and the day
of her appointment, I have no idea where she's going.

Maybe it isn't the chemo at all, maybe it's some chemical cancer
cells release?


I get so bad, that when someone calls, I forget where I'm going
between the rings.

Did I tell you how when someone calls, I forget where I'm going
between the rings?

Chemo brain
I first heard of chemo brain when was about 20 and an aunt of mine had breast cancer and claimed she had chemo brain. My family was merciless with the jokes so i started acting like an idiot ever since just in case I ever got cancer and got chemo brain. That is just how proactive I have been with this disease. Of course many in my family believe I started acting like an idiot much sooner than that, but the truth is everything before that was just good luck.

bdee said:

Chemo brain
For me it is getting worse. My doctor told me to get out as much as I can and talk to people, go places and see art, etc. Read a lot and listen to familiar music. That all this should help with my brain.

In the last two days I've almost burned down my house because I left grease on the burner and today, my son walked in to find my kitchen flooded because I started water in the sink to wash dishes then completely forgot about it. Sweet son helped me mop it up.

But these are two things I have never done before. Even though my 29 year old daughter and my 30 year old son in law almost burned their apartment down the same way.

Debbie In Arkansas

Chemo Brain Exists
I had chemo brain during and a while after treatment. It took me forever to read a book as sometimes I could not remember what I had just read. It has gotten better though although now when stuff like that happens I call it a seniors moment.

Cheers,
Lance

It's Chemo Brain! Yes, I
It's Chemo Brain! Yes, I have the same issue. They say it will eventually get better. I hope so. I spend too much time trying to remember why I went from one room to the next.