b5 media brain fog 1.3
May 10, 2007 by laura
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Since this is Mental Health month, its a perfect time to continue on with my series of posts on brain fog. This week Katelyn from Stamping Mad is being profiled. Even someone who is as non crafty as myself, can learn from Katelyn’s blog. I loved the post about using flower petals as stamps. Really beautiful work!
Anyway, on to the brain fog. When asked what particular category of brain fog hers falls into, Katelyn had this to say:
I can’t remember my age, ever, but I think that’s wishful thinking. I do tons of brain fog stuff. The worst was when I got halfway to my Mom’s house and realized I was supposed to be going to Elkton to work…an hour the other way.
Good one! I think we are all guilty of “forgetting our age”, and I am not sure you can classify that as brain fog. I think its more along the lines of trying to reverse the aging process. However, the 2nd part of the quote is definite foggy brained material. I do similar things to that quite often.
Here is what Katelyn had to say, when I asked her what she does to try and prevent those moments when she can sense a patch of fog moving into her head:
My solution is to clutch my foggy head in my hands and then thunk my head on the steering wheel. After I take a painkiller for my new headache, I sit down and write a list. I am talking detail here and the foggier I feel, the more detailed it gets. Sample list from last week when my allergies were really acting up (Which is when my brain fog descends)
Here is an example of her to do list:
-Be sure someone took out trash to curb.
-Put out mail.
-Feed nephew.
-Feed cats.
-Feed dogs.
-Take allergy pills.
-Eat breakfast.
-Blog.
-Pack lunch.
-Take nephew to school.
-Teach.
-Lunchtime appointment.
-Go to work at the library.
I love that she has “go to work” on her list. Unfortunately for me, forgetting to go to work is never a problem. I have (on more than one occasion) tried going to work on a saturday morning….only to realize 2/3rds of the way there that its saturday morning, and I only work mondays thru fridays, and I have somewhere else I should be.
Thanks Katelyn for sharing the details of your brain fog with CFS Squared: Tales of CFS.
If any of you want to participate in my series on brain fog just send me an email about your trials with B.F and what you do to conquer it! I can be reached at laura@b5media.com
Heh. What would we do without lists? My brain fog coping mechanism is to have pens and sticky notes stashed all over the house. If I don’t write something down the second I think of it, it will be gone, guaranteed. When I leave a room I take the notes with me and stick them on my desk where I organize my activities. Works great.
Sylvia,
lists are fantastic, and save my life daily. I have hot pink post-it notes put on all of my doors, reminding me to do things, like turn off the iron, or oven or whatever…
today I put one on the washing machine, reminding me to check the pockets, before I put the clothes in to be washed.
Here is another example of brain fog.
I just realized that something that I posted about CFS Awareness week, that I wrote yesterday, was marked private….so no one was going to be able to read it anyway.
Great awareness spreading, Laura.
Well Done!
You know what… It came through in my Bloglines. I wondered what happened because when I tried to go to the post on the blog I got an error message. I guess your RSS code doesn’t recognize “private” posts.
Don’t you just love computers?
It wasn’t exactly a computer error…more like a computer user error.
I am just glad that I caught the mistake at the start of awareness week, and now after it was over.
It’s good to know that it did come through on the feeds.
I am totally going to have to start paying better attention to the things that I am doing.
Multitasking ends today!