Sorry about my rant I have just migrate over to universal credit from esa my brain is like mush it's only been since taking dabrafenib and trametinib I carnt moan too much they seem to be helping but when it comes to reading any information on paper my brain is not taking it in and when it deos it soon geos I carnt understand it all iam short now more now then before I don't know what's happening we just don't need this added stress can anyone relate to this or is it just me being a moaning wish to god I could just go to work but sadly my cancer isn't the only thing that holds me back
Yes I can completely relate. My brain does not hold the information like it used to, and I struggle to read, I can’t read books anymore because as soon as I have read one page, the information has gone, I couldn’t tell you what I had read.
I have had a couple of “forgetful” moments recently that really frightened me. I was doing some ironing, and I couldn’t remember how to put the water in the iron. It’s a steam iron, and the water goes in the base, but I stood staring at the iron for a couple of minutes, completely baffled about what to do! I went to see my GP because I actually thought I was getting dementia. He did a memory test on me, which I actually passed, but these moments of blankness are scary!
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