Top Ten Ways You Know You Are Getting Dumber....
10. You realize when you have 4 miles worth of gas left in the tank (and you are 8 miles from home) that you don't have your wallet.
9. You can't remember simple words like "pen" and every conversation involves an impromptu game of $100,000 Pyramid :"something you write with, it's thin and has ink in it..."
8. You don't keep track of who you've sent birth announcements to or who you've invited to Brooks's Blessing so some people got two announcements and no invite and others got two invites and no announcements.
7. You- the one with neoropathy- go to the store to buy tissues for your constantly stuffed up/runny/bloody nose and somehow manage to buy tissues that are actually COLD. Seriously, they have something in them that makes them cold to the touch. Brilliant.
6. You leave the house with the keys to your husbands car in your purse.
5. You left another set of keys to your husbands car in the car, with doors unlocked.
4. You basically need GPS to get anywhere beyond your neighborhood at this point.
3. You don't get suspicious early enough when you don't hear your 3 year old for a solid ten minutes, only to find she has annihilated your chapstick collection, unravelled an entire container of dental floss, and squirted $45 face wash all over the handwoven rug your in-laws gave you.
2. You tell your husband you aren't going to spend any more money for a couple of months and then elect to have the receipt from an LL Bean shopping spree emailed....to his e-mail address.
And the #1 way you know you are getting dumber....you announce to the Facebook world that you are halfway done with chemo when in reality you have only completed 5, not 6 cycles.
Seriously, could I get any dumber?Unfortunately, from what I read, I just may. So for those of you keepng track, I am balding, have really jacked up feet, am getting fat again, and now I'm dumb too. Quite a prize. Quite a prize.
In my defense, I don't even know the word for pen, how can I be expected to count? Ugh! Definitely a tad discouraged but on the bright side, I can just recycle my "time flies" blog post in two weeks. I'll be sure to use that free time not getting a pedicure.
Chemo brain is a very, very real thing :( Hang in there! It gets better.
ReplyDelete...see, with chemo brain, you might actually believe that ;)
Truly though, after chemo it will get better. For now, don't sweat it - you have a really valid excuse!