So I am feeling somewhat better today after getting 8 restless hours of sleep instead of just 6 restless hours and I'm trying to be productive while I can. A few minutes ago I realized I needed to take my medicine and I have to eat when I do so I started getting out bread for a sandwich. I then realized the oven was warm. I opened to find I put frozen hash browns in the oven already. Probably 20 minutes ago. I had to kind of laugh because I didn't remember but then the thought crossed my mind about when will I eventually catch the house on fire! I guess no more multi tasking when I'm cooking or at least I need to always set a timer to remind myself something is cooking.
I do that kind of thing all the time at work and I work in a cafe. Trying to make coffee and fill soda cups does not work so well. I always feel like I am in a fog and I can sleep 12 hours and wake up tired. How is that possible?
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I have never been one to need much sleep but in the last year since all this started I need so much more sleep and it drives me crazy. I don’t have time for all that sleeping!
I understand that feeling, MrsK!
Recently my mother gave me the "your crazy look" because I didn't remember doing a second load of laundry and just said it magically appeared in the basket. I really have absolutely no memory of doing this. I also have to keep my meds in a little pill box or else I tend to forget if I took them or not. I feel as if I have lost my mind and I am only 21. The fibro fog is truly a powerful thing!
I had the fog for months before I got really sick and I just called it medicine head except I was never taking any medicine. For the last several years, I mixed my words up when I was tired. Call the dishwasher the microwave. Or just can’t even think of the most simple words and my kids have made fun of me for years. My daughter always says “you can’t talk for crap after 6:00.” LOL
Hi Mrs K … I’ve done the same type of thing several times, like start water for soup or put something in the oven and wandered away to do something else and for get I started it. Go back to the kitchen remembering I wanted to do something and find I already did it. I now set timers for everything I start in the kitchen. Fortunately my husband just laughs when he finds the milk in the cupboard and cereal in the fridge etc. I also find that I really have to focus to do one thing at a time in order to get something finished as I am easily distracted. I must admit though that doing one thing at a time although more productive is kind of boring. It’s a good thing that fibro fog is often amusing otherwise it would drive us even crazier.