Article - Memory loss following breast cancer treatment

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  • JJ70
    JJ70 Member Posts: 983 ✭
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    @AllyJay LMAO    "like a lost fart in a haunted shithouse...." I have tears streaming down my face!! Oh how hilarious!

    I couldn't find the word 'KEYS' yesterday. The conversation went something like:

    "Where are the........(long pause)"
    "You know the thingymidgiggees"
    "The silver things that make the car go"

    "You mean the carkeys mum."
    "Yep, that's be them."
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,960 ✭
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    Btw, if my last post made no sense, I take no responsibility.
  • JJ70
    JJ70 Member Posts: 983 ✭
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    I have a meeting today with a lady who is a university professor and also the Medical Director of BreastScreen WA. Should be a hoot if I can't even remember the word 'keys'. She's in for an intelligent conversation - LOL! :o
  • JJ70
    JJ70 Member Posts: 983 ✭
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    @Flaneuse. I like to write too. I especially like poetry. I find that at least I can have some of my former eloquence with words through writing, because I have the time to sort through the files in my brain and find what I need without time pressure. It is conversing with others that is most difficult for me. I am beginning to share my experiences of CRCI with friends and think I will preempt today's meeting (see above post) with a disclaimer.
  • AllyJay
    AllyJay Member Posts: 946 ✭
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    @JJ70, I can soooo relate.In my house, we have cutty things, (scissors), pully outy things, (tweezers), sucky outy thingy (usb stick...it sucks info from one computer and then spits it out into another) and so many more. Before, my words were my tools, my friends and my weapons. I used to take them and give them a poke, make them dance, make them sing, howl or rage. Now they just dribble out of my mouth mixed in a soup of crap. Verbal diarrhoea, to be honest. However, when writing, I do have the chance to go back and revise, or to rummage around in my word bank, searching for the right one. I don't want that person to merely walk, I want them to amble, stroll, lurch, stagger, stride or whatever describes their perambulation perfectly. Frustration just doesn't even come close to  the feelings of having had a chemical lobotomy.
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,960 ✭
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    I know that I've said it before but I do think this must be what people must feel like in the early stages of dementia.
  • Flaneuse
    Flaneuse Member Posts: 899 ✭
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    @Sister That's exactly what scares me. That bc and chemo could have triggered what becomes a slide in that direction. 
    @3370 I've not even tried to write "properly" again yet because I intuitively know I won't achieve the standard I once did. I WILL try - one day. But not yet.
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
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    @JJ70 See above
  • arpie
    arpie Member Posts: 7,603 ✭
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    @JJ70  -

    Will you be able to raise this issue with her & ask if there is any serious research going on?    It is to going to go away!  :(  

    Maybe even Suggest she join BCNA & follow some of the threads?


  • Ellamary98
    Ellamary98 Member Posts: 157 ✭
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    I have been known (repeat occasions) to empty my bottle of tablets and count them to work out if I took one 15 minutes earlier, or did I just think about taking it? It's bonkers. And yep, I keep my opinions to myself in serious conversations with people who don't know me so well- I so often just end up sounding confused and stupid. Like you, @Sister, I find that friends and family are also quick to say that they have the same issue- it's just menopause, ageing, busy life syndrome. It is NOT the same thing as the memory lapses everyone gets, and much more like dementia. I'm not a well-organised person, so writing notes down, setting alarms etc and generally adopting more methodical behaviours is a hard fit with my fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants nature, but I guess I am learning it the hard way! Sometimes I wonder if being a middle-aged woman (I'm 51) engenders a dismissive approach by specialists to these 'anecdotal' side effects of hormone treatment and chemo.
  • Ellamary98
    Ellamary98 Member Posts: 157 ✭
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    I completely agree @kmakm and I cannot wait to pass on your response! 
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
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    Oh @Wendy55!  :D or :s?

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