Dave, I was an RN before all this MS thing came along. I guess my favorite thing about being an RN was to educate. So I don't mind at all tellling whoever I am talking to that my inability to find my words is due to MS. Usually when I tell them waht word comes to my brain and what the concept is we will work it out. This may be a salesperson, or the drywaller that is doing my family room right now. I definetely am not one to keep my MS a secret. It is my duty to educate people about MS. I know what misconception I had about it when I was first told I had it.

Also my level of frustration, fatigue. noise level, etc really affects this mind fog. I just call it sensory overload. I can go back to reading posts for ,say six weeks ago when I was so frustrated with our contractor. My posts were short and not a whole lot of insight available to my brain. I am now relaxed and I think better.