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Posted 1/15/2018 2:26 AM (GMT 0)
Before I even knew it was Lyme . . . .

* Went to the grocery store and paid for a bag of groceries. Left and drove to my cousin's house where I was spending the night - an hour away. Didn't know until I got there that I'd left the groceries in the store. Had to go back after work the next day to get the groceries.

* A couple of years ago during the busy holiday season, I went shopping at the mall. While clearly seeing there were people close by in the parking lot, I came within inches of hitting them with my car (not on purpose). Wandered around the parking lot trying to remember where I parked my car. Drove down the street to get lunch at a Chick-fil-A. Patiently waited in a very long drive thru line only to drive right past the place where you place where you order. Didn't realize what I'd done until I got to the place where you pay. I apologized between giggles, but the employees didn't look too amused.

* One day I had a sudden fear that I'd forgotten something and tried to remember if I'd mailed the check to pay my credit card bill. I got the checkbook out and opened it. I had written the check out and left it in the checkbook. The bill was due that day. That was the first time in the history of my life that I was late paying a bill. (Unfortunately, it wasn't the last.)

Just the other day . . . .

* I had a dentist appointment and was wearing a new outfit. I wasn't sure what shoes would look best with my new outfit, so I put on one black boot and one brown one. While standing there, I suddenly felt afraid and was worried that I would get distracted and walk out with two different shoes on, so I looked down and did not take my eyes off my feet until I quickly decided to wear the black ones and put the other black boot on. Whew!!
Posted 1/15/2018 10:03 AM (GMT 0)
Put my cell phone in the washer machine.

Called the pharmacy demanding to know where my cat's medication was. They said it was left in my mailbox a week prior. Checked my fridge and there it was. 0 memory of ever receiving it.

Noticed that I wasn't on the work schedule. Same thing, apparently I had requested time off, but 0 memory of ever doing or wanting it.

Post Edited (CatLady18) : 1/15/2018 3:06:02 AM (GMT-7)

Posted 1/15/2018 1:24 PM (GMT 0)
I was searching for Dishwashing detergent at the grocery store (the not tested on animals and so on kind)...I had to ask a clerk where it was but I could not remember "Dishwashing detergent"...
So I called it..."Laundry detergent...for dishes...you know, in the machine..."
Totally embarrassing!
Posted 1/15/2018 7:43 PM (GMT 0)
I've had the most embarrassing near misses when I'm driving. One time I went right though a red light even though I was completely paying attention to what I was doing, and one time I almost ran right into a school bus in front of a police station.

I'm bad enough when I'm just walking. More than once I've been at the grocery store and almost stepped out in front of a moving car. My cognition is fine when it comes to reading, math etc, but whenever I'm moving, forget it. Somehow I just don't see things, even though my vision is fine (with glasses), according to the eye doctor. I'm always thinking mailboxes are people and people are mailboxes. And the annoyingest thing thing is when someone wants to shake my hand and I don't notice.

Whenever I go walking if I see something on the ground that I can't identify I get really scared. One time I saw this weird shiny plastic thing rolling down the hill towards me and I freaked out and ran away.

And I'm always bumping into people at the mall (when I go there). Now maybe it was because I was using my old glasses, but I can't see close up with my new glasses and I wanted to be able to read labels. I'm just too scared that I'm going to get into an accident so I don't drive.

Strangely, I don't have any trouble riding a bicycle.

Sorry for the long post... I've been posting here a lot... Haven't had much to do lately. Sadly, resting doesn't seem to help my lyme symptoms any.
Posted 1/16/2018 2:08 PM (GMT 0)
I found some organic super-dark chocolate on sale the other day. Got home and unpacked the bag. Later that night I thought "Yum, I'll treat myself to some of my dark chocolate!"

I couldn't find my chocolate anywhere.

I couldn't even remember taking it out of the bag, but it wasn't even in the bag still either. It was just disappeared and gone from my memory.

I almost started crying.


I did finally find it - in a place I don't know how it ended up in.
Posted 1/16/2018 5:40 PM (GMT 0)
This isn’t totally Lyme, I think it’s millenial...

We were looking through old family photos recently, real prints, and I took one, couldn’t quite see the detail in it, so I put my fingers on it and tried to pinch to zoom in.
Posted 1/18/2018 8:02 PM (GMT 0)
Well, I'm glad we're having this discussion. The stories of late payments helped me be a little more aware of what's going on when I was updating my Quicken just now.....I'm so disorganized lately. Some of my "scheduled bills or deposits" aren't always applicable to me anymore, so I've been ignoring some of them - if I even notice..... you can see how that might turn out poorly.....

So now that I was paying a little more attention - sure enough, I didn't pay the county for property taxes last month .......!! Thankfully the interest and penalties weren't very much. But still, scary!

(edit - added) And what's even funnier (scarier) is that the first few times I read some of y'all's late-bill stories, I thought, "Good thing I have that all set up in Quicken to remind me, so I don't space it!" shocked
Posted 1/19/2018 4:42 AM (GMT 0)
Hoo boy.....yet more from me. In one sense, as you all know from experience, these can be kind of funny from a distance. But for the time they waste, and the frustration and havoc that they create.... even the minor ones are not good. Still OK to be able to laugh at yourself a little, I suppose, but man oh man, what could we accomplish if we didn't do this kind of stuff? Still, thanks for sharing! I guess we can all commiserate together smile.

I was reconciling accounts today, and preparing to work on taxes (both personal and from my small business) - As others have shared, this is not a fun task with Lyme brain. Especially with very some strange things in how Paypal presents information in some places (e.g. two lines were literally not adding up, and it didn't show me that it was because some funds were delayed).

So my Lymie part comes in when I realized something I had done: when I made a 49.99 purchase via PP, I somehow thought that it paid with my PP balance (not what I wanted to do). So I started a transfer from my bank account to counteract that.

Finally, just tonight I realized that I *had* actually paid with the right account to begin with, and so I made that transfer for no reason....and also frustrated myself looking for the money for an hour or two today for no reason........... ugh!
Posted 1/22/2018 5:40 AM (GMT 0)
Walking past my shed just now reminded me of the day last month when I was getting ready to drive somewhere, on a particularly off day (in a particularly off couple of months).

Started backing down the driveway, realized I had forgotten something in the house, so pulled back up and got out. In the house wasn't the only place I had forgotten something, because the car kept going without me in it! shocked shocked shocked

I was very thankful that something like this happened at home, with only minimal damage to my shed, and not in a parking lot. Or on the freeway at 70 MPH.
Posted 1/22/2018 7:59 AM (GMT 0)
I had returned from errands and got out of car got my items out of back seat and went into house. After 15 minutes I couldn’t find my dog, I was panicked, looked everywhere... lo and behold he had jumped in car while I was unloading and was seating quietly in passenger seat, ready for a drive. I couldn’t get him out of car to save my life, it was too late and roads were too bad for a drive so I gave up left car door open and then closed garage door to house!! about 20 minutes later after running around again I open garage door and he is seating patiently at the top step. He sauntered in but I swear he rolled his eyes at my other dog...
Posted 1/22/2018 8:07 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Fritz - welcome!

Thanks for sharing your story with us. What would we do without our pets!!!

Are you currently in treatment for Lyme disease?


We do encourage our new members to read through the information that is contained in the thread: "New to Lyme?..Start Here!" It's packed full of useful information.
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