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If your lives have been as tedious and drama-laden over the past few years as mine has, you've probably learned to find humor in the little things. Brain fog is a common criminal, stealing your logic and, quite frankly, your brain, resulting in frustrating situations--such as realizing that you've thrown the remote in the kitchen trash again, or standing in front of the kitchen cupboard wondering "Did I take my pills just now, or..." A lot of thoughts seem to end in "...". Or "huh".
If you'd like, take a few moments to offer up an interesting, funny, or huh-producing tale of your own. I'll start with a couple of my more unfunny ones, because I can't quite remember the others right now...
1.Hallucinations: I went through a period of these, which is hard to admit to anyone except others undergoing comparable brain-drama, since people have a tendency to judge... Anyway, --I've often yelled at my mom to quit vacuuming, or was driven crazy at my rx center by the constant vacuum...obviously neither vacuum was ever real... --a bush turned into a giant lizard. That was strange.
2. Random brain-foggage: --as afore mentioned, have thrown numerous household items/important papers/full pill bottles into the garbage. Some items were lucky enough to be found, but most...not so much... --there was a piece of broccoli on the floor. I forgot its name. Not really funny, kinda sucks, but it happens... --umm...so, yeah..that's all I can think of now. Pretty unfunny, huh? Oh well, I suppose some of you have more unfogged brains than I. Please share your stuff!
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I'm not good at remembering things myself-but to give you a giggle or two I will try to bring up the jokes I posted on my birthday-which was August 29th for anyone left wondering.
Cobweb, formerly Carol B. Please excuse me while I go searching.
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SNEAKY PARENTS !!
An elderly man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, "I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough."
"Pop, what are you talking about," the son screams. "We can't stand the sight of each other any longer,"the old man says. "We're sick and tired of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her."
And he hangs up. Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. "Like Heck they're getting a divorce, she shouts. "I'll take care of this."
She calls Phoenix immediately, and screams at the old man, "You are NOT getting divorced! Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?" And she hangs up.
The old man hangs up his phone, smiles and turns to his wife. "They're coming for Christmas and paying their own way."
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Medicare & the 2 biopsy misup!
The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, Hello". "Mrs. Ward, please." "Speaking." "Mrs. Ward, this is Doctor Jones at the Medical Testing Laboratory.
When your doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the lab yesterday, a biopsy from another Mr. Ward arrived as well, and we are now uncertain which one is your husband's.
Frankly the results are either bad or terrible." "What do you mean?" Mrs. Ward asks nervously.
"Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the other one tested positive for AIDS. We can't tell which is your husband's."
"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Ward. "Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time." "Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
"The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him."
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Those are really funny Betty G-thanks. I got a chuckle,too.
Anyway-I couldn't remember any jokes so I just went ahead and brought up my birthday party which has cartoons in it-to lighten Strongerangel's day.
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Me and my mom seem to be the main giggle gals when it comes to our lyme brain-fogginess or whatnot. I'm going to embarrass her slightly but I feel it's okay if it brightens your day, strongerangel.
A lot of times she'd bring home movies from blockbuster really eager to watch them and get a good laugh. We'd watch about ten minutes wide-eyed and I'd look on the movie sleeve and lo behold! It's rated R. She's getting better at reading the movie ratings.
I think we make many many Bambi jokes because we live close to deer (It's why we're moving, ha! Take that deer! We're relocating!) but I remember the first night I got really pent up and angry at the deer for showing up in our yard. I asked my mother permission to scream and left the house, calm and collected and then once I got out screamed, "D*mn you!!!" I forgot to specify I was condemning the deer. I hate to think what the neighbors got out of that.
There are more, I know there are but that's all I can come up with because I'm so foggy. Sorry! I loved everyone else's!
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For you cat lovers, here's one I got today also:
To make you feel better about your hallucinations...
I went through a period of time where I was having auditory and olfactory hallucinations.
The auditory ones weren't that funny -- usually I was hearing people walking on my roof with army boots in the middle of the night, and a couple of times I heard Chinesse children singing. Freaky.
But the olfactory (smell) ones were a little more interesting - and I just had to laugh in order to deal with them.
For a time -- I was smelling mostly really gross stuff, and usually when I was all by myself. There were several times that I could swear someone farted -- and I was the only one in the house! In the beginning - before I realized I was hallucinating the smells - I would run to the bathroom to check and see if I had somehow messed in my pants but was just too whacked out to realize it! To my relief I had not!
But I spent hours sniffing around my house like a dog (until I was literally dizzy from sniffing) because I was determined to locate the source of the odor!
Sorry - I know some of you don't like bathroom humor. But if you can't laugh about not knowing whether you passed gas, messed your pants, or did nothing at all -- what CAN you laugh at?
Yes, humor is an essential coping mechanism for me!
Thanks for a fun thread.
Hugs &
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I suppose it's only natural that a certain Wiseass would be prone to bathroom humor.
Wish I was anal retentive because I did crap my pants at work-on a very slow elevator. Maybe that's why they let me go on Family Medical Leave.
I'm happy to say that I have now graduated from Pull-ups.
My daughter and I went for lyme bloodwork today. Here's a joke I have revised from Reader's Digest:
How can you tell when a Lymie has been using the computer? There's White-Out all over the screen !
I know what you mean with the Chinese people!!!! Except for me, it wasn't Chinese people, but snare drums. snare drums. other sections of the band joined in sometimes, like i'd hear trumpets and whatnot. And the neighbors were always arguing in my room.
One of my 'realest' feeling hallcnts was visual/auditory. I was in IV trmt, and I looked next to me and there was a flower vase rested on a little table. The vase fell off and onto the ground, and I heard it crash. But I finally realized that none of this had happened, and there was no vase or table even there. It was scary, until I realized it was semi-normal.
I'm not crazy by the way
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