Not much to say. Just imagine having a brain that does not connect properly and that will give you all sorts of interesting and potentially dangerous situations.
Example. No matter how many times I look at the electric burner knobs, I still turn on the wrong one quite often. I check. I double check. I triple check. I'm just 100% SURE I have the right one ... and then something catches on fire, melts, or gets burned a little.
Another example. I absolutely cannot walk down the stairs unless I'm looking at my feet. Full attention must be on the feet. I cannot carry anything down the stairs that hinders the view of my feet. The same goes for uneven surfaces. Folks probably think I'm grumpy or in a funk half the time because I do not look up when I walk. I can't.
Showing posts with label Cognitive Issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cognitive Issues. Show all posts
Friday, June 22, 2018
Saturday, August 24, 2013
MS and cognitive issues
My most hated symptom BY FAR is cognitive issues. My short term memory is pathetic. It is very hard to make decisions and process information. It's like my brain is in slow motion. Problem solving is a real trial. Being in a crowd with lots of things going on around me is chaos to the extreme. Concentration is poor. The list goes on and on.
I used to be a fast typist. Really fast. Now I am so slow it's frustrating. It's like going from super high speed internet to dial up ... or worse. I can use that same analogy for my slow-motion brain too. Dial up speed.
I also have issues with spelling. I used to be an "A Student" when it came to spelling. Now I mess up the simplest of words. I usually, eventually, catch the mistakes but it takes a while sometimes of staring at the word and thinking "now that's just not right" ... and sometimes it's so obviously wrong that I just have to laugh at myself.
Example: I just spelled "speed" "sepped". At least it has the same letters. Often times half or all of the letters are not even supposed to be in the word I am trying to spell.
If anyone reads this and has suggestions on how I can help my cognitive issues, please share. I have been making schedules to help keep me on track, but the problem is I often do not feel good enough to follow the schedule so it's all in vain anyway. I take lots of notes but forget where I put them. I rely on my cell phone calendar a lot. This is the only consistent thing that seems to help.
I used to be a fast typist. Really fast. Now I am so slow it's frustrating. It's like going from super high speed internet to dial up ... or worse. I can use that same analogy for my slow-motion brain too. Dial up speed.
I also have issues with spelling. I used to be an "A Student" when it came to spelling. Now I mess up the simplest of words. I usually, eventually, catch the mistakes but it takes a while sometimes of staring at the word and thinking "now that's just not right" ... and sometimes it's so obviously wrong that I just have to laugh at myself.
Example: I just spelled "speed" "sepped". At least it has the same letters. Often times half or all of the letters are not even supposed to be in the word I am trying to spell.
If anyone reads this and has suggestions on how I can help my cognitive issues, please share. I have been making schedules to help keep me on track, but the problem is I often do not feel good enough to follow the schedule so it's all in vain anyway. I take lots of notes but forget where I put them. I rely on my cell phone calendar a lot. This is the only consistent thing that seems to help.
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