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Chemo Brain. I've succumbed.
I'm so disappointed. I've had to defer from my studies. Having plowed through a double advanced dip in management and HR while I was in treatment I assumed, wrongly, that I could continue and do the ...
@zoffiel, reading your posts lifts my mood and puts my feeling sorry for myself into perspective. I too struggle daily with the fog and the anger that lurks under the surface because of it.
I so identify with your post, @AllyJay, I too enjoyed the dance towards more picturesque speech, and the pauses to search for simple words in a conversation nearly brings me to tears.
Thank goodness most people seem to understand the reference to Chemo brain, and just find the word for me. And names, sigh! Even friends I see or talk to regularly, suddenly I can't remember their name.
I am not at all reassured by Primek's 18 months since chemo, I think I will be on antidepressants too if it goes on that long.
I so identify with your post, @AllyJay, I too enjoyed the dance towards more picturesque speech, and the pauses to search for simple words in a conversation nearly brings me to tears.
Thank goodness most people seem to understand the reference to Chemo brain, and just find the word for me. And names, sigh! Even friends I see or talk to regularly, suddenly I can't remember their name.
I am not at all reassured by Primek's 18 months since chemo, I think I will be on antidepressants too if it goes on that long.