"Hey, we need a thread with posts about all of the comical things we have done with our PCS." - Mark in Idaho
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Good idea, Mark! I like that. This would be the right audience, i.e. to "get it". Early on w/ my TBI, I attempted to make-light/ humorous with certain non-TBI/PCS persons (who obviously 'didn't get it') about the things I was doing when in the acute phase of all this, simple little things.

"And after 3 days of trying to *just make coffee* (after the collision), only to find that I'd put the ground coffee into my coffee mug, put sugar into the coffee carafe, and poured boiling water through the coffee filter (with nothing in it) and later (or hours later) whenever I'd *ding* remember what I had been doing before I "lost track"--- I'd go back to the coffeemaking, proceed to pour cream into my coffeemug (oblivious to the darkroast ground coffee misplaced in the cup) --- and warm it in the microwave --- wander back to all of this whenever I'd *ding* recall "Oh. Making coffee. Yes."

--->Pull the coffeemug from the microwave, maybe see or not see the mess therein --- and attempt to "pour coffee" from the carafe, and it's but at best by now warm water only. Oh my! People cannot *believe* this stuff if they've never experienced it themselves!

But, yikes, Mark! You cut off the end of your little finger and say it didn't hurt! [Do you have also perhaps a diminished capability to perceive pain? a higher threshold for pain?] A buddy in my TBI support group has that + diminished capacity to realize if he is either overheated or in hypothermia. Is that the hypothalamus that's affected?

Here's to the "LaughIn" thread for PCS! Grins, Theta