It has been over a year since my accident. I have made improvements along the way. I manage single tasks ok enough to get by. I still lose track of bills, keys, money etc... but am now doing more self checks( hope this doesn’t lead to OCD) because I will walk away from the register at a store and then go back and double check ( sometimes triple check) that I have everything I just purchased or the proper change etc… I never had to do this before (Is this a sign of depression\axiety????, I don’t cry over it but I sure get ****** when I lose money or leave the milk at the grocery store. I have pulled from the ATM and cannot retrace in my mind what became of it) but to some docs they say this is normal like “mommy brain” are you kidding me! No offense to those of you with kids. I am sure there is such a thing, but I don’t have kids so I wouldn’t know and it is not an analogy that makes sense to me.
Before the accident I was able to do several things at the same time and not lose focus. I do not believe the neuro evaluation exams test for this deficit (Mark, you can correct me if I am wrong, but I do not remember anything in particular that seemed like a multi-tasking type module.
The exams are geared to single task attention skills. So even though you make improvements along the way you may still have a long way to go but the tester declares you normal or average for your demographic. What can you do in this situation? Anyone have any ideas? I have described I am having memory problems but in fact I believe it has more to do with registering the process of the moment and some of the pieces are now getting lost along the way.
Also curious about word finding. I am accustomed to speaking to large audiences and using pretty elaborate wording at times. I feel have lost the use of my upper vocabulary if there is such a thing. I have notices when speaking and describing thing to other people. I get to a point and stumble trying to find the word I would use. I do know in the early months after the accident I would stop mid stream in conversation and had looong pauses but this has not happened in months