Wash and Repeat...Again and Again and Again!!!!

Hi All,
I wanted to start a thread about the daily funny things that happen from being in a fibro fog. Here is mine and I hope you can relate.
I get into the shower and I feel the warm water rush over my body...Oh it feels great. I let it run on my back for a while cause it needs to be loosened up. I reach for the shampoo and clean my hair, then time for conditioner, okay everything is going good. As the conditioner ids doing its job, I reach for the body wash, oh but the water feels so good. I start to read the bottle, kinda, I think I am just enjoying the warm water on my back. Okay so I am holding the body wash, grab my poufy and apply it. OOOHHH I love the smell of this new wash, it has pomegranate in it, smells good. Rinse off the wash, grab the shampoo, and begin washing my hair.

Wait a minute did I already wash my hair? I cant remember. Rinse out the shampoo and apply conditioner...again???? Yep, just to be sure. And I swear I do this, I have to smell my skin, because I can't remember if I washed myself!!! Yep, smells like pomegranate.

Time to get out and feel the cold air on my body. Quick, grab a towel and dry off. Good, all is well until I go to dry my hair. I have failed to rinse out the conditioner!! Oh crap, get back into the shower and rinse it out. Good job, moron. Now get out and towel off again. Only now the towel doesn't feel great because it is damp from the first go around. UUUGGHHH!!

Now, I don't have to get ready for work, so that is good. Reach for the deoderant, apply, good job. Now I need my face moisturizer...I carefully read to make sure it is in fact my face moisturizer, remind me to tell you about the time I applied Lamisil to my face! funny story, truly. Okay, now to apply my under eye, super duper wrinkle fightin eye cream( ladies you know we need it!) Ever so gently...pat,pat,pat..Good. Now I stand there in my towel, trying to remember, did I do my deodorant? I feel my underarms and come back with a finger full of Secret, "little black dress approved" underarm stinky cream.

I am not kidding you, this has become almost a daily thing for me! So, please feel free to share your stories of funny fog moments here. So that the rest of us can feel better about ourselves!!

Best Wishes,
Kathy

Haha. And I thought it was because I was OCD.   I have a MAJOR order of which I have to do my morning routine or I just plain out forget to do them. IE-deodorant, rinsing conditioner, forgetting my wedding ring, etc. I, like you, love the warm water and I get so caught up in feeling good I forget where I am at in my routine. Luckily, most of the time I can figure out where I am pretty quick.

I don't know how funny it is, but trying to explain to my husband that I left my wedding ring at home (typically on the weekend) is never fun. But the only thing I can come up with is because I didn't blow dry my hair for work, so then i didnt go put work clothes on, so then I didn't go to spray body splash, so I left my ring on top of the dresser. He just chuckles because he knows I am telling the truth and I just wish I would have just worn the ring. Lol.

Thanks for making me chuckle.

Aimee

I put my cell phone in the fridge yesterday........I'm such a goon......

I also have moments where I'm standing in my room after walking up the stairs thinking... okay... why am I here? I'm bad for things in the morning, by the afternoon I don't remember what I did in the morning, since my days seem to all be like one giant mass... and picking out individual memories of what i did earlier gets confused with so many other things.

On bad days I'll have something in my hand, put it down to do something else, forget what I put it down to do, and then forget where I put the thing I originally had.

It's frustrating, but i usually just try and laugh at myself - yep my brain just doesn't like working sometimes :P

Only fibro-mites would be able to understand and chuckle at the shower story! Oh, and somehow feel strangely comforted - that I'm not the only one who does these sorts of things!

I certainly have done the shower thing, almost as often as I shower these days! But, not quite as funny, is forgetting when I took my meds - oiy! I was doing that ALL the time - simply could not remember what I just did. I finally got myself one of those pill organizers with the 4 dividers per day, one whole week in the box. It's gotten much easier to know if I did take them or not.