char
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Anyone like to share a funny lyme moment?
I'll start.
Yesterday, I was waiting for late afternoon to decide whether or not to go to Wed. night church.
My daughter gets so much encouragement at teen group. I really try to get her there if we can manage.
So 4:00 rolls around, and she comes into kitchen and we start the "Should we push ourselves to go?"
I was tired and overwhelmed with idea of going out. Willing to push thru so we all could go.
So we start talk about it. She is exhausted and not wanting to go, really. doesn't want to say it because she feels guilty if we sta.y home for her sake and loves going when she can. I was determined to take her if she would do it
So we talk about this for a few minutes. And a few more as neither want to say "uncle".
All of a sudden it strikes me that both of us were slumping over the the kitchen island with upper body resting at 90% angle. Sinking ever deeper as we tried to convince ourselves to go.
Cracked up when we realized how crazy we were all slumped over and admitted Yeah, we should probably stay home.
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Funny...My lyme friend who is also a coffee fiend told me of one of her Lymie moments.
One evening, her husband who was quietly working at his computer, in the corner of the living room, asked her if she would pour him a cup of coffee.
Saying that she would, she left the couch where her trusted companion of a dog lay sound asleep.
She returned a few minutes later with a steaming hot cup of joe, and thrust at her recipient but he did not take it. Again she thrust it at him and sayed "HERE".
But her recipient just blindly looked at her..Annoyed she finally ANGRILY sayed "WELL DO YOU WANT IT OR NOT?"
She was being looked at like what the @#%$*&$$&* do you want me to do with that coffee?...dumb*#@
Then suddenly from the other corner of the room her husband asked "WHAT are you doing?"
She realized she had been trying to give the cup of coffee to the dog! And the dog was not interested...
LMAO!
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I SPRAYED MY UNDERARMS WITH HAIRSPRAY THIS MORNING!
Boy was I pissed!
Pretty funny now.
I've tried to take off my eye makeup w/ nail polish remover. Can you hear me screaming? Glad it didn't actually get in my eye. Boy was my eyelid burning!!!!!!!!!!!!
I still can watch the same movies over and over. If three or more months go bye I just don't remember the movie.
Lucky for me I do always remember if I liked the movie.
There are plenty of lyme moments that I just don't remember.........
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Heatherkiss-
Just saw your post. I am glad you didn't really get hurt with the nailpolish remover on the eyelid thingy.
Our angels have to be working overtime to protect us during these "moments". Incredible you didn't damage your eye. (Bet the hairspray felt yucky)
I think the Lord knows when 1 more thing would put us over the edge!
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I am discovering that I have a problem remembering numbers. Especially during a conversation. So here I was on the phone talking with a friend. And he goes:
"Me and my mate bought an electric helicopter just recently. cost us $120."
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One day I was congratulating myself on how my brain fog was lifting -- as I was pouring the unground coffee beans into the filter of the coffeemaker.
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Gee, talk about a lymie moment. I'll never forget when shortly after having my first baby, 4 years after contracting lyme(which I didn't know was still in my system)... my daughter would need her feeding in the middle of the night.
After a few nights of this, my mind would automatically shift to get the baby out of her bassinet and bring her into my bed for her breast-feeding. The minute she'd start bawling, my lamp would start flashing to signal the warning, which my husband would also be affected.
Somehow, during this one crazed night, I was still in sleep-mode but managed to pick up the baby and snuggle back in bed with her. The lights kept flashing a couple of times and my husband turned to me and say,"did you get the baby?" and I'd reply that she was right in bed with us.
Well, the lights continued to flash which I ignored knowing I had the baby nursing, yet my husband became pretty frusterated and turned to me once again, "Are you sure you got the baby??" So I turned the cover back to show him...and guess what's lying there instead of my darling baby girl??
It was none other than the family dog, and my poor baby was still in her bassinet waiting to be nursed. Gosh, I don't know how I muddled that one!!
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Here's a lyme moment that was 12 months in the making...
I got up the energy to buy my father a birthday card. I got home and was too tired to address it and mail it so I decided I stick it in the cupboard and mail it the next day. When I slipped the card into the cupboard, I noticed another card there. It was my birthday card for him from the previous year.
Guess I'll send him three next year.
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Ha ha! Funny how so many things can slip our minds and we don't have a clue!
Hey Imanurse: You are very lucky to have a husband willing to do little things like that for you!! I wish mine would do that! Just when my husband knows that I need more help around the house, he spites me by doing less and making tasks more difficult than necessary.
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Well I have on occasion stepped into the shower with underwear still on.....
I have put the salt-shaker in the fridge....
Ive waited for food to heat up only to see that I forgot to turn the stove on.....
I sometimes "miss" my mouth when trying to toss medications in there...the pills just go sailing past my head onto the floor
My parnters favourite so far : I had somehow managed, in getting dressed after a shower, to put TWO pairs of underwear on...which I wore all day without noticing.
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How about accidentally going into the mens room while at the bookstore?
How about doing it on 3 separate occasions and have lost any sense of embarrasment?
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I got this cute poem from my mom and felt I should put it here, since I am sure this is something that us lyme brains can relate to:
My forgetter's getting better, But my rememberer is broke To you that may seem funny But, to me, that is no joke
For when I'm "here" I'm wondering If I really should be "there" And, when I try to think it through, I haven't got a prayer!
Oft times I walk into a room, Say "what am I here for?" I wrack my brain, but all in vain! A zero, is my score.
At times I put something away Where it is safe, but, Gee! The person it is safest from Is, generally, me!
When shopping I may see someone, Say! "Hi" and have a chat, Then, when the person walks away I ask myself, "Who was that?"
Yes, my forgetter's getting better While my rememberer is broke, And it's driving me plumb crazy And that isn't any joke!
CAN YOU RELATE??
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yesterday, at four in the afternoon - end of the day at work - i had to talk to someone in an admissions office about a student who was missing some papers for processing. i almost never do this because my boss does.
he is away. i tell the admissions officer that i spoke to an educational consultant and that blah blah blah the student is blah blah. during the course of the diaglogue, i needed to say consultant again. COULDN'T REMEMBER THE WORd. i'm stumbling, saying it begins with a "c" she asks, "counselor" i say no. then "s**t*" then after about another full minute of silence i come up with counsultant.
didn't tell her that it was lyme. i might have to speak to her today.
consultant, consultant, consultant
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well, the other day I started washing my arm with shampoo. Its like sometimes my mind just does and doesnt THINK!!!
im at a loss for words sometimes too....or mix up letters.......
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I went out on the backstep to call my cat.
"Twilight" "twilight" I called for 5 minutes
which is odd because he usually comes running when I call him.
Since he didn't come I was very worried.
So I decided to go in to get the flashlight to go look for him in the backyard.
I open up the door and twilight is waiting for me inside.
I had already left him in.
I mix up nouns in sentences alot.
like I would say the store went to sally instead of sally went to the store.
When I write I often mix up my b p d and 3 with E.
I also can never remember where I parked the car. (on the seldom occasions I can drive)
I have even gone out to the wrong lot to look for the car.
I just have to laugh at myself when I do this stuff.
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This is why I could never get away with lying about having Lyme disease at work.
Boss says to me: "blah blah blah blah at that place we had lunch together last week."
Me: " ?????? "
Boss: (with incredulous look) "Have you forgotten that we had lunch last week?!!"
Me (lying): "Of course not!"
Me (to secretary): "Sh_ _. Did I have lunch with him last week? Where?"
After being supplied all the details, it came back to me. But it is pretty mind-numbing to have entire, not-small events just disappear, unable to even be summoned by concentrating.
If I did not have an extremely supportive workplace, my sometimes-brainless self would be history!!!
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funny! Santa that is really funny. I 've gotten into the shower with my socks on..but two pairs of undies in one day ...LOL funny
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This is funny...a lot of these things sound familiar!
This morning I went into the bedroom and changed out of my P.J. bottoms into pants and then about an hour later I went back to the bedroom and changed out of my pants back into my P.J.'s....
Sometimes I think my brain doesn't work at all!! : )
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One of the worst lyme moments for me was when I actually forgot I had lyme disease and started pusuing another diagnosis.
I think what snapped me out of it was when on my many trips to the er the doctor said to me "How long have you been doing this?
It suddenly dawned on me, that I had already been diagnosed with lyme disease. Posts: 121 | From philadelphia | Registered: Feb 2006
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Today is my brother's birthday, so yesterday I bought him a card while i was picking up meds at CVS. I swore the card said ...'you bring out the best in me'
there was a pic of a girl holding a frog in her brothers face.......well my brother opens the card....and says "pest"
i was like what!! It doesnt say that....sure enough it said pest not bEST like i had thought.
I laughed and and he just looked at me.
Ive been doing that more lately when typing too mixing up those 2 letters.......sigh.
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So...
The day before yesterday... I pull into my driveway, put the car in park and am sitting in the driver's seat trying to remember where the house key is...
I sit there wondering for a few minutes and then it hits me...
attached to the rest of the keys in the ignition.
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From Traveling with Tincup... Saturday Morning- the Rally is Over. We call our man,Cooper, to get us to the train station. We do manage to board the right train headed back to Maryland. Tincup, who's a mover and a shaker-even when not on a rattling train, manages to get us good seating.
Soon the Conductor comes around for tickets. She asks Tincup for her receipt, so Tincup starts pawing trough her bags. " I know it's here somewhere, I know it's here somewhere, I just can't remember where I put it." I heard that a lot over the weekend.
So I pull out my receipt-I have saved the day !
"Where are you going ?" the conductor asks. Tincup is still pawing through her bags mumbling to herself. I study my ticket and proudly announce- HARTFORD.
I'm thinking to myself-something doesn't compute here. Tincup and I just sit there looking at each other, stuck in Lyme Limbo, until we both burst out laughing.
The conductor quietly pulls out a slip of paper and writes in big upper case letters "NEEDS ASSISTANCE" and sticks it on the rack above our seats.
Two half wits does not a whole brain make-when there's lyme involved.
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