Where the hell is my BRAIN?

[pegkerr]

I dropped Delia off at the church at 6:25.

I dropped Fiona off at the church at 7:15. I FORGOT to wait for Delia to come out so I could take her home.

THIS IS THE SECOND TIME I HAVE FORGOTTEN TO PICK UP MY OWN DAUGHTER THIS WEEK.

Rob took pity on me and just left for the church to get Delia.

I am starting to get seriously alarmed. This is really uncharacteristic behavior of me, all these memory lapses. What the hell is going on?

Comments

[wordswoman.livejournal.com]

Stress makes brain cells leak. I only have about two brain cells left, and they aren't speaking to one another.

[aome.livejournal.com]

You are exhausted and stressed, and those two things, all by themselves, eat up your brain cells. *hugs* Sounds like a really rough week. Do you have a calendar function on your cell phone, to beep you and remind you exactly what needs doing and when? Might that help?

I did read your other post but didn't have time to respond. I hope the car-pool idea works out for you. *more hugs*

[volkhvoi.livejournal.com]

I'd be hard pressed to keep all the appointments, drop-offs, pick-ups and meetings of one of your *normal* weeks straight in my head!

I am not the least bit surprised that sometimes something falls over the edge of the event horizon.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Offload all that remembering to Google calendar maybe? I have it send me text messages for all kinds of things. It's a wonderful--free--tool.

[dreamflower]

Stress, pure and simple.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you're starting to think of her as growing up and less dependent. Perhaps you need cell phones.

[1crowdedhour.livejournal.com]

I hate to be the first one to mention the dread word but could it be one of the early signs of perimenopause?

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Now that's something that hadn't occurred to me, but I am having other symptoms of perimenopause, too. Huh.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Is brain fog and forgetting things a perimenopause symptom?

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

It can be.

[avylou.livejournal.com]

Brain fog and forgetting things can also be a sign of low thyroid (often along with being very sensitive to drafts, and being exhausted all the time).

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I was going to say something about this, but I forgot.

K.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sure could be it. (I entered perimenopause at 39, so my kids grew up with my forgetfulness!)

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

A friend in a similar situation once said, "Post-It notes are my life."

A PDA is good too--as long as you can remember to enter info into it, to look at it regularly, and, of course, can remember where you put it...

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

I have heard this too, and it's the only thing keeping me from drop-kicking my own forgetful brain right over the back fence.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

I forget things when I get really stressed; it's not unusual. And you're under stress right now, heightened by the worry about your car.

Is there a possibility the stress may be heightened by PMS as well?

The fact is: you've got a lot of different appointments and duties to remember, so don't beat on yourself for forgetting something. It's natural given all you have to do.

[only-sound.livejournal.com]

Nothing to add to the problem of "what the hell is going on?" But, clearly, the solution is a traveling Weasley clock.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

OMG I WANT ONE!

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

It's not identical, but some of the family plans with one cell-phone company will plot on a map where all your family members are.

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Nothing's wrong with you. Your circuits are overloaded is all. Get a small notebook with you and write stuff like this down. Let it be your brain.

[ame-chan.livejournal.com]

When I experience this, it is usually because I am stressed to the point of no cope. *hug*

[elfundeb.livejournal.com]

This has happened to me several times over the last few months. I forgot several appointments for myself and the kids (including one for a diagnostic test I really needed) and missed another because I read the map upside down (I normally am very good with maps) and couldn't find the right street. My daughter, who had been hauled out of bed early on a Saturday for this appointment, was furious.

Things have calmed down in the last couple of weeks. I've worked hard on the stress-causing conditions and let go of a couple I can't do anything about, like the stock market.

I'm confident that your forgetfulness is only a short-term thing that will resolve itself soon.

[dreamcoat-mom.livejournal.com]

Peg, I'd like to share a journal entry of mine with you from last year at about this time. Link here to read it (http://dreamcoat-mom.livejournal.com/151499.html) and see if it parallels your own experience. It's utterly awful to get to that point, so consider the fact that it may be medical rather than simply behavioral. Hang in there!

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

What the hell is going on?

You're a human being with a hell of a lot of demands on her time and attention. Stystems under stress are known to become glitchy.