CHEMO BRAIN. This is what your brain can be like when you are going through chemo treatment. Foggy, dull, fuzzy, unfocused, short attention span. Those are just a few ways to describe what is going on in your head.
It's not really a case of No Signal Found ... it's more of a Loose Connection. What's going on? What just happened here? Did I miss something? Simply put ... IT'S CONFUSION AND LACK OF CONCENTRATION. And it will hit you in the strangest ways.
Just to give you an example, If you eat eggs, you probably know these are fried eggs ... over easy. I recently went to a diner for breakfast with my hubby and couldn't for the life of me remember the term ... over easy. I was grasping for words when I spoke to the waitress. I told her, "You know, when the yolks of the eggs have a thin white cover over them." She finally figured out what I meant. It can be so damn frustrating ....
Paying bills? Get help. When your head is swimming in Chemo Brain (my brain fog starts to set in around the 3rd day after my chemo treatment and lasts til about the 10th day) let someone else pay the bills if you can. I'm the one who usually takes care of the bills (making payments both by check and online) but when my brain is temporarily out of commission, hubby takes over. Yet, there are alternative ways to deal with this. If you can swing it, pay your bills before a chemo treatment or when the fog has completely lifted. If you can't, try to enlist a good friend or relative you trust to help you manage paying your bills.
Well, that's the scoop on CHEMO BRAIN. My 3rd Chemo treatment is tomorrow, November 17th. I'll let you know how things went in a week or so.
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