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Let's post our "Lyme moments". This should be funny.
In October, I sent a happy Thanksgiving e-mail to my cousins in England. I never got a response. They were probably like, "Umm... what the heck is Thanksgiving?"
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Dunno if mine could be considered "Lyme Moments" since I'm not dx'd, but they're certainly chuckle-worthy.
Had my first appt with the Holistic MD. Now bear in mind that I knew where his office was and had been past it several times.
I get in the car and start driving....in the wrong direction. About 15 minutes into the drive I realize my mistake and turn around.
Finally get to the office. On time I might add, because I left early to fill out paperwork.
Walk into the office and realize I'd forgotten my purse. I NEVER forget my purse! So, no ins card, no money for the co-pay, no nuthin.
I also couldn't remember the name of the dr I was seeing.
They made a point of putting "forgetful" on my chart.
Good thing the car didn't need gas on the way home or it'd have been even more of an adventure.
Other delightful brain fog moments: I tend to get lost fairly easily these days, even going to the grocery store. I've explored some lovely new neighborhoods that way. Oddly enough, I seldom get lost on the way back home.
Looking for something around the house and find myself standing in front of the open fridge. Apparently, all the answers are in there. Either that, or I'm subconsciously waiting for a blessing from the Fridge Fairy. (don't ask)
Lists are my lifeline. Unfortunately, there's several problems associated with them.
1. remembering to take the list with me.
2. remembering to take the "right" list with me. Nothing like (finally) getting to the grocery store and realizing I brought the housework to-do list.
3. thinking of something, going to write it down and not being able to remember what it was by the time I take the 10 steps to get to where the list is.
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Was struggling this am. But at least I was able to put a roast in the crock pot.
I feed the dog both dry and wet food. When I opened the can of wet food, I almost added it to the crock pot.
So glad I caught myself before the deed was done.
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It could have been the "secret ingredient" that made that the best roast ever! Who knows?
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I made beef stew the other night.
Put in the meat and potatos and thought I put in the carrots.
When it was time to eat, I lifted the lid to the pot and said
"Where did all the carrots go?"
It took me a full couple of minutes to realize I didn't put them in.
So, we didn't have beef stew. We had meat and potato soup.
These things happen to me all the time.
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Hi I had a good one today...I am still laughing about it. I ordered a new pair of sneakers because my feet hurt. I wanted a bigger pair that were not so tight on my feet. Anyway my new skeakers came today and I immediately tried them on. One foot was good and loose and one was really small and tight. I thought OH MY GOODNESS NOW WHAT HAS LYME DONE TO MY FEET! It took me a few minutes to realize they sent one size 9 shoe and one size 8 shoe. It sounds stupid but I am still laughing about it. By the way I still cannot find socks that do not hurt me Posts: 422 | From CT | Registered: Oct 2007
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When I was really sick I served this horrible last meal, the last one I was allowed to cook, the vegetables were burned black and the meat was RAW. I thought I had cooked it, put it on the table and then the smoke alarm went off whhho-oOOOH whooo-OOOH and the veggies are black and burnt- last time my husband let me cook until my brain cam eback- was the 3rd fire in a week!!!!!!! My husband kept poking the raw meat with a fork going, "WHAT? WHAT?" He was FURIOUS. I was like, "What's wrong with it???" Oh. Raw. But I could have sworn I turned on the oven!! But I was so out of it it was like, "Well, can't we just make do?" I was not thinking NORMALLY anymore-
I also started stopping at green lights and once I YELLED at the other drivers who were all honking at me and yelling THE LIGHT IS GREEN! I yelled that at them like DUH, of course I'm stopped, the light is gREEN! I had gotten the colors crossed in my mind, the meanings, red, green, stop, go... for a whole week... When I figured it out I had to sit there ofr 15 minutes going, WHY is Everyone driving BADLY all of a sudden? WHY<><
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An hour or so after unpacking groceris I opened the fridge door to realize I had placed the cerea; and crackers inside. Posts: 390 | From Oakland, CA | Registered: May 2007
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I recently handed a cashier a dollar. She thought something was odd with the dollar, and turned it over and there were my wax ear plugs stuck to it. I started laughing, 'cause I just remembered I had stuck ear plugs rather loosely in my ears in the previous store I'd been in, 'cause the music had been too loud, then had taken them out when I was paying for something there, and I guess they got stuck to the money.
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I am always cold, so I am constantly drinking hot liquids.I use the tea kettle on the stove or the microwave to heat the water.
The other day, I had come in from food shopping and was putting things away, when the phone rang. I have several chest freezers and only use the fridge freezer for a few veggies and ice cubes.
I thought I had put a cup of water in the microwave to heat. After a few mins, I looked over and saw the micro light was out and though my chatting, I didn't hear the bell go off. I opened the door and it was empty. So I put another cup of water in and a few mins later the water was ready.
Two days later hubby goes in the fridge freezer and finds a broken mug with a lump of ice in it....He asked me what are you saving this for??? and we both laughed, when I said , Is that where it went?
I too use lists, when I remember to take them.
I am depending a lot on timers too, but only when I hear them... [IMG] bonk[/IMG] .
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DakotasMom, that reminds me- when I was running a 104 fever near the beginning, I decided to CLEAN the house. MONTHS later I was still finding things in the weirdest places- my daughters dolls- IN THE FREEZER! But not just IN the freezer, BURIED beneath a carefully constructed stack of food to look as if they weren't there. Other things under the sink, put underneath things to HIDE them, and I was so delirious with fever I just had a hazy memory of doing it, so it was really pathetic- Things on top of the fridge- things put in my dresser BENEATH my clothes- basically I had gone around HIDING things and I was so out of it I had actually hidden them from myself!! AGH!!!!!!!!!!
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quote:Originally posted by Curiouser:
3. thinking of something, going to write it down and not being able to remember what it was by the time I take the 10 steps to get to where the list is.
Yes, I have this too, bigtime. I think I can diagnose your Lyme based on that!
Geneal, Try adding onions to the stew/soup. Really adds to the depth of flavor. Even if you forget the carrots. Oh, peel and dice turnips too....the kids will think they are potatoes, at least mine always did.
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1. put the mayonaise in the bathroom medicine cabinet. didn't realize the mistake until I attempted to use it as moisturizer.
2. drove 2 doctor appointment at his old office he hadn't occupied in over a year. I had appointments at the new office monthly since the move.
3. drove kids to wrong school. I took them to their old elemenatry school.
4. not 2 mention how I told my daughter to "buckle your sidewalk"(seatbelt)
asked my sister to go by my place and "let the laundry(dogs) out"
and when I made a comment on how smart I was to a friend, I exclaimed "wow, I'm brazillian"(brilliant)
lol. this can be freakin funny sometimes
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Making a cup of tea yesterday. Ripped the top off of the tea bag and put it in the cup adn poured the water over it.
Kept looking at it. Soomething did not look right.
Realized I had not taken the tea bag out of the paper container and had only ripped the top off.
Driving down road and kept hearing this sound like the blinkers were on. Kept checking the blinkers and the emergency flash lights which I never did find.
Checked lights, etc.
Finally pulled into a parking lot and tried to figure things out.
I had left the driver's door ajar and that is why I was getting the blinkers's like sound.
Most of my errors and confusing comes when I try multi tasking. Even being on my feet and talking is to much for me.
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3. thinking of something, going to write it down and not being able to remember what it was by the time I take the 10 steps to get to where the list is.
Yes, I have this too, bigtime. I think I can diagnose your Lyme based on that!
Carol
If it were only that simple. LOL!
From your fingers to the LLMD's ears!
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1. telling my mother her pumpkin pie was in the glove compartment (meaning trunk)
2. Making my list for the grocery store and leaving it on the coffee table
3. Coming back from the store and putting the milk in the pantry and trying to put the laundry detergent in the fridge. My daughter now helps me with putting away the food in the right place.
4. Getting dressed to go somewhere and forgetting where I was going to go, so I had to call my husband at work to find out where I needed to go, it was to the drugstore to get my meds, and he said not to go, that he would get them for me, because he didn't trust me in the car
5. telling my kids when they are heading to school "Good Night"
etc. etc. etc.
My whole world is a lyme momemt
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Finding my happy place.
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I walk into the living room. There is a very prominent ball of dog hair on the floor. We have two dogs, it happens.
Me: Aha - I spy you, ball of hair, sullying my otherhwise pristine floor. I should really pick you up and throw you away.
My muscles: NOOOO!!! For Pete's sake NOOoooOOO!! Do you have any idea how much that will *hurt*? All that bending? The pain? Trying to bend back up? Just leave it.
Me: You're right muscles. Maybe I should leave it. It's not worth the pain and one thing Lyme has taught me is to not be a perfectionist. I think I shall now go sit on the couch and read.
Hairball: Pssst.
Me: I'm not listening. Now stop bothering me or the next time I get up I'll just kick you under the couch (with the 9,000 other dust bunnies).
Hairball: I'm awfully sorry to bother you, but I just wanted to let you know that you are, in fact, going to pick me up.
Me: You can't threaten *me*, hairball.
Hairball: Oh, I wouldn't dream of it. But maybe our friend would.
Me: What friend is that?
Lyme OCD: Helloooooooo.
Me: GAH!!! No! Go away!
Lyme OCD: But I just got here! And you know-
Me: Don't say it, don't say it, don'tsayit-
Lyme OCD: I'm not going to go away until you pick up that hairball.
And so I acquiesce. Walk over to the hairball.
"GEEEOOOOOWWWWRRRRAAAAACKAAAAAAARGHHHHH"
(This is the sound I make when I bend down)
Pick up the hairball.
"ANNNNNGHHHUUUUUUUBBBLAHHHHHHHHHH"
(This is the sound I make when I bend back up)
Lyme OCD: (soothingly) There there. That wasn't so bad, was it?
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Definitely having some Lyme moments lately.
For instance, I just tried to reply to a post, and ending up replying to a totally unrelated post by accident. When I tried to go back to edit, I unintentionally tried to send myself a PM.
Does anyone else not remember their honeymoon or other important event? I'm afraid to tell my husband just how much I don't remember because I don't want to hurt his feelings (even though it was almost four years ago).
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These are all so funny....
Alison, absolutely hysterical. That should be published. Sent it to the Lyme Times at least!!!
I am so glad I'm not the only one who makes those exact same sounds bending up and down. Reading your post made me think I should buy a grabber thingy.
I have to send this thread to my husband, cuz he does all of these things, but is too Lyme deficient to realize it.
A couple weeks ago, I found the milk in the cupboard with the glasses. That one was my husband.
About a month ago, our phone got shut off. We are both too sick to work right now, so.....you get the picture. Anyway, I have a business line, a Vonage phone, so I somehow had the freaking bright idea to unplug the Vonage line from it's phone jack and plug it into the house phone jack, so that the house phone would work.
It took me about two weeks to figure out why the phone wasn't working. When I did, I was SHOCKED at my stupidity!!! But it seemed perfectly reasonable at the time!!!
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5 days at least now of trying to figure out why window will not go up on passenger side....
Finally figured it out...I learned there is a switch to lock the windows...all but the drivers.
Had thought that might be the case earlier. Had even played around with the buttons but too foggy until that one moment of clarity today...
..right before the big storm. Good timing.
...ah ha...i think it was today that my brain was actually working well enough to see or process the words PW/lock on the button.
amazing how this lyme stuff affects the brain
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I forgot to post this one:
On Christmas, my son opened three Lego sets. All the same. Exactly. All from me. Wrapped them at the same time, never noticed they were all the same. In fact, I had to keep looking at them to see that yes, in fact they were all the same.
When my son got in an accident last week, we discovered his car registration had run out.
Today he got pulled over in our car, oops, the registration ran out in November, unbeknownst to us!
Just for the heck of it, my hubby checked on our other car; yep, you guessed it....registration ran out in 2006.
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Went to my therapist to unwind my Lymic woes. Sat in the chair with my leg crossed, ankle on knee, pouring my heart out.
Suddenly, I stopped mid-sentence and stared at my feet in disbelief. "These are not my socks!" I shouted.
Think my therapist thought I'd dropped my final stitch. "What do you mean by that?" she queried.
I stared in total disbelief wondering how strange green socks had entered my reality. For the sake of Lyme organization (compulsive?), each family member has a sock color. Easier for sorting that way. We are strictly a light blue, black, tan and white sock family.
I felt violated by the green socks on my feet. I couldn't place them; I'd never seen them before. Was I totally losing my marbles?
Turns out they were my son's friend's socks. He'd left them at our house during a sleep-over. They got washed and put in my sock drawer some how.
I was sure that I'd blacked out or hallucinated or done something brain-wrong in an altered state. My therapist and I laughed for a while on that one. Posts: 508 | From Banks of the Hudson | Registered: Jul 2006
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Once when I first started losing my brain I LOST MY BABY!!! I ran all over the house looking for her, I couldn't FIND her, I was FRANTIC, my husband was outside with some friends, I ran up to him and blurted out, "ARAM I LOST THE BABY!! I LOST THE BABY!!! I CAN'T FIND HER ANYWHERE!!"
Yup, you guessed it. I was carrying her. (No WONDER I couldn't find her!! She was staring at me silently, like, "Wow, Mama!") Ouch.
I did that with my GLASSES all the time, started thinking I had lost them, would go ALL over the house until I would go to husband, he would say (again, patiently, most of the time):
"You're WEARING THEM!" (No WONDER I couldn't find them!!!)
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Did a few things this week and thought that I need to add that to the thread.
Couldn't find thread. Glad someone pulled it up again. But, now can't recall what it was I wanted to add.
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Just had one today. After speaking to another lymenet member on the phone today for 2 hrs, I went in the BR to brush my hair and put hair spray on it.
I sprayed room refreshner on the left side of my head and thought, that smells funny? lol
I used too many good/normal brain cells talking on the phone and have been in lyme fog since. Darn stuff, ^$#@**!!!!!!!!
Thanks Mysterygirl for starting a thread for us to make fun of ourselves.
Pam
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I have a new one.
Opened my freezer the other morning to get my daughter's ice packs out
For her lunch box. Sitting there on top of everything was a book.
A book I had been trying to read the day earlier.
I have no recall of when or why I decided this was the place to place my story.
Good Grief Charlie Brown!
I stood there for about 2 minutes trying to process exactly what I was seeing.
Then I laughed for a few minutes too.
I am afraid sometimes if I don't laugh......I will cry.
And that just won't do.
Hugs,
Geneal
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This probably isn't necessarily a lyme moment, but just have to share.
I was having bad pinpricks in my left heel the other morning.
Thought that maybe grinding my heel into the floor would stop it.
Hubby comes up and starts doing the twist.
I'm like "huh?"
He thought I was dancing!
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