Brain fog is a symptom of M.E. It’s hard to describe which, ironically, could be the brain fog working its usual magic! Basically it means we often can’t think straight; feel as if our heads are full of cotton wool; struggle to put the right words into a sentence; have rubbish short term memories…
A fair few of us on Twitter have been chuckling away at each other’s expense by sharing some of our brain fog moments. I thought I’d share some of them here:
There was the time I made myself a coffee on a plate rather than in a mug
The time I forgot to put oven gloves on to get something out of the oven
Trying to put a library card in a cash machine
Putting peas in porridge
Throwing food in the recycle on bin and putting the cardboard box in the fridge
Going to put a tea bag in a cereal bowl
Forgetting your own sister’s name so calling her “That girl”
Walking into the lounge with the kettle rather than your mug
Going to wash your hands but forgetting how to turn the taps on
Leaving the gas on after cooking rice…for 6 hours
Putting a dog treat in your mouth instead of the dog’s
Putting gravy granules in your cup instead of coffee
Putting your dinner in the oven but forgetting to turn it on and only realising half an hour later when you went to remove it
Almost taking the dog’s medication instead of your own
Getting in the passenger seat of your car to drive
Putting your clothes on back-to-front
Putting your knickers on over your leggings
Making a cup of tea without a tea bag
Chatting to relatives on the phone. Completely forgetting about what you were talking about only to find new plans written on your calendar that only you could have written…
Phoning your own number and wonderin why it was engaged
Staring at a pair of knickers with absolutely no idea how to get them on
Pouring milk or boiling water straight into the coffee or sugar canisters instead of your tea cup
Panicking that you’ve lost your phone…when you’re on the phone to someone
Forgetting to get a towel out before having a bath and having to do the soggy, cold and naked walk of shame to the airing cupboard afterwards
Putting orange juice in your coffee instead of milk
Getting lost on the way to the supermarket despite making the same journey every week
Getting cross that the landline phone had run out of charge only to be told by your four year old that it was actually the TV remote
Going to the kitchen for matches. Coming back with the car keys
Turning up to an appointment the day before by accident and telling them you like to be on time
Forgetting how to spell your own name
Forgetting where you’d parked your car and having to ask security for their help
Trying for ages to unlock your car in a car park and getting frustrating that the key wasn’t working…only to find it wasn’t actually your car
Forgetting your own address when filling in forms and accidentally giving a combination of your last three addresses
Waking not and panicking that you can’t see only to realise you slept with your eye mask on
Putting the kettle in the fridge
Getting up. Doing your hair. Putting your make-up on. Doing up your sandals. Opening the back door to let to dog out. Realising too late that you had forgotten to put on any pants or trousers!
Thinking your car had been stolen but realising you’d left it at the shop and walked home
Please feel free to leave anymore you might have in the comments section. We all need a good chuckle!
M.E. myself and I 
Calling a taxi company to arrange for a lift from a doctor’s appointment and after all of the confusion with dispatch realizing you had called a company in another country.
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