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Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Sat May 9, 2015, 01:56 PM

May 2015

About you, or us?

Chemo brain is real. It's not unlike states you realize when on other drugs or plastered (alcohol) or others. I cannot sometimes put two and two together on chemo brain. There's a substance-abuse saying about "move a muscle, change a thought" which is supposed to mean if you're thinking of using, get up on your feet and do something else and forget about it. In my experience, it's more like the thought is "I have to go into the kitchen for this..." and I move a muscle, get into the kitchen and my thought changes, to being "what the hell did I come into the kitchen for?"