Hello - I found an interesting article on Chemo Brain on the internet and thought I would post a link to it here. And there was I thinking that dementia was setting in!!!
amoena.com/tbcs/InTreatment/Chemotherapy/Understanding+and+Managing+Chemo+Brain.htm
Very reassuring! My OH is a deputy head and the next 2 weeks are results weeks. He has written times and dates around the house and I still keep asking wren he is out. It’s a fog and I lose my train of thought all the time. My daughter got a wii for her birthday yesterday and I found the tennis kept my concentration for half hour, so must be some truth in the article. We are not going mad after all!
Thanks ST
I actually had to google how many days in a year last week- how crazy is that?
I’ve always done the sudoku but it has become more difficult of late with my scrambled brain. My dictionary has never been more used and usually I’m a “good speller”.
I’ll be glad when I’m back to “normal”. I’ve been going with the flow and laughing about it, so it was good to read that, that was a good option.
Diana
Nice one Supertrouper!
Great to read that it is being acknowledged as ‘real’.
I have been doing lots of silly ‘chemo brain’ things but have as Ragamuffin says, managed to laugh about a lot of it. I do hope it doesn’t last for very long tho!!
Wandyx
Thanks for that Supertrouper … really worried about this, as my job is all about memory! Television continuity… was it in his left or right hand ? Did he have something in his hand?? Oh dear … !!
so reassuring to read all your comments!! i’ve had days when i actually thought i was going mad. looks like i going to have to get on and enjoy my life covered in biro and post it notes.x
i actually had a phone call with the mother of my sons friend last evening, (I finished my chemo last week)I asked her if she had been having chemo too… she was (as always) so dense I took the chance to make a dig!
Oh god, I’ve got mega chemo brain. I can’t remember things easily at all, I’ve lost my sharpness and my ability to retain information. I keep on going into rooms and forgetting what I’m there for, I forget names or words to describe things and my concentration is shocking.
Someone suggested to me I use my time to learn new things at the moment - I laughed my head off and explained that my brain is total mush so that’s not happening, I’ve already tried that.
I hope this is not a permanent thing.
My worst was putting petrol in my diesel car, I’ve been driving diesels for 10 years.
I am taking part in someone’s PhD on ‘Chemo brain’, it will be interesting to see the results.
Jen