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Old 02-22-2012, 05:26 PM #11
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I know most of us have memory issues. I was wondering in the course of a day how much time I spend trying to remember what it is I forgot. For example leaving the living room to go to the bedroom and get comfies on. It took me getting up and out three times before I figured it out. It was only after my husband says to me, Why aren't you in your comfies?

I put stuff down and then spend so much time trying to figure out where I put them. I put stuff in weird places. Yesterday my husband was trying to be funny and make a joke out of it and I snapped at him. I told him, it wasn't funny and it's f-ing frustrating. I can see from his stand point why its so funny. I was just irritated. But looking in the from the outside I have to say, it was funny.

The not-so-funny part is how often and how much time this really takes up. Between that and the multitasking deficiet I really feel frustrated alot of the times.
You are in such good company! I joke that I used to have 10 balls in the air intentionally, now I have 10 balls in the air because I forgot they were in the air.
The funny thing is how they seem to defy gravity and just stay there indefinitely.
I sympathize with your frustration, believe me. With PCS, sometimes your choice is to laugh about it or cry about it and sometimes it's not even a choice. Try to hang in there. It's great that you have family support that can keep you grounded.
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Old 02-22-2012, 09:59 PM #12
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I have tried to put the milk in the cupboard and the cereal in the fridge too!

I forget things all the time. It can be frustrating, but it's been happening to me for so long now (accident was on 7-28-10) that I usually just laugh.

I do get frustrated when 60-somethings refer to it as the normal aging process. I'm not 60. or 40. or even 35. So, no this is not "normal".

I try to keep my purse in the same spot all the time. That way I can find it. Likewise with my phone or anything else I own. Luckily, we live in a two bedroom condo, so there aren't too many places I need to look for something before I find it... usually.
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Or "time spent wandering the house looking for my cell phone!"

I found my purse, keys, and hat sitting on top of the closed toilet the other day. Of COURSE! Why didn't I think to look there first?

I have started parking in the very last row in the parking lot whenever humanly possible to save myself hours of aimless wandering in public places
Yeah, I found my cell phone in my silverware drawer the other day. Always the last place you look...
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You are fortunate to find things in the last place you look.

If I find something in the 20th place I looked, it is usually not the last place I look. My brain forgets that I found it and keeps looking for a while. It gets kind silly. After a few corrections where I remind my brain that I already found it, I finally stop looking.
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You are fortunate to find things in the last place you look.

If I find something in the 20th place I looked, it is usually not the last place I look. My brain forgets that I found it and keeps looking for a while. It gets kind silly. After a few corrections where I remind my brain that I already found it, I finally stop looking.
Yeah, I get that too a little bit. Actually, I had forgotten that I didn't have my cell phone. I found it because I needed a spoon for my cereal...nevermind how long it takes to actually get cereal, bowl, milk, spoon all at the same place at the same time!
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Omg!!!!i never lost my car before my injury!!now im real.careful.
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It's been almost 2 1/2 months since my concussion. I still have those mental brain skips. It goes beyond "normal" lapses.

I understand your frustration.
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I have to write post its for the post it notes that I have written. I too have lost my cell phone. I have lost 2 dunkin' donuts rechargeable cards. It's frustrating,but now I just look and go, OY-again.
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