Chemo Round # 2… and….Chemo Brain

Round # 2 took place on this past Thursday… it started as a really early day, due to having to be at the hospital at 5:45am to have the port inserted into my chest at 7:30am.  I was a bit tired when my doctor walked into the holding room, before taking me into Surgery, and asked how I was… I think I said something like this:

“I’m fine…but I would like to speak to someone on the Hospital staff about these kind of hours. They really just do not fit into my schedule and I generally don’t do anything before 10:00am. This just does not work for me.” 

He then let me know it didn’t work for him either, but he’d had to do it for the last 30 years anyway :):)

Port insertion went fine.. Chemo was fine.. and haven’t felt too many of the side effects yet. This will either be an easier time or it’s going to hit me a little later. We will just have to wait and see what happens.

Mom’s here with me, Fuat’s able to go to work  without worrying about me being home alone and ill…I’m able to move around much easier, now that I am six weeks out from Surgery… so hoping this round is going to be smoother ( but I will keep mentally prepared for a few down days).

Lately I’ve been experiencing some interesting side effects. My darling Fuat swears I was doing some of these things before the chemo started, but I am sure he is mistaken. I couldn’t possibly have been so silly before the chemo.. Really honey… you must be dreaming :):):)

When we get older we have to worry about Alzheimers… When I stared having “brain dead” moments a few years back my mother told me… “You are too young for Alzheimers Disease… what you have is SOMETIMERS disease.. sometimes you remember things… sometimes you don’t.”

Well…. now… I have what some books lovingly refer to as “chemo brain.”

Don’t know where you put the sugar when you thought you put it in the cupboard? Well.. just look in the microwave.

“Honey, what do you mean you can’t find your cell phone?  I saw it in the bedroom this morning.” “ Oh… It was between the sheet and the blanket when I made the bed? Sorry :):):)  Maybe I was just trying to keep it warm. ”

“Yes I heard what you just said.. I just answered you.  I didn’t answer you? Well… I thought I was speaking out loud.”

Do you find yourself standing in the middle of the kitchen, trying to remember what you were doing and you have no idea why you are wearing vinyl gloves on your hands? Could be Chemo Brain…

Do you find yourself talking to someone, only to realize you haven’t really been talking.. you just think you are? Could be Chemo Brain…

OR.. even worse.. for your family and friends.. Do you find yourself talking SO MUCH and SO FAST ( perhaps like you had just drank three red bull)  that your  sweet, wonderful husband has to ask you to speak slower and your  darling Mother has to look at you and ask “What??”  Could be Chemo Brain.

 Well.. at least I have given Mom, Fuat and Teena a few good laughs over the last few days… We were laughing really hard about something the other day.. but I can’t remember what it was.  Must be the Chemo Brain..