Just a bit disheartened tonight

Thanks everyone for your kind, empathetic, and sometimes humorous words both here and by PM. I had a better night last night (if you notice there's not posts by me all hours of the night last night). I just came off of several really rough nights back to back and was a bit worn down.

My oximeter is the 7500 by Nonin. It has several little sheets of instructions. I knew when I saw them I should look at only one at a time, and even then cover all but the line currently being read. See, I know me, but I'm stubborn. Just want to have an overview I told myself. I set myself up for the mental block. Gotta learn to better respect my instincts that guide me in working thru my current state of mind.

It does help to know I'm not alone in dealing with these glitches. I think it would be fun to hear everyone's funniest story about their glitches. Thanks again for your support.

Kathy

P.S. Translating the instructions to poetry - now that intrigues me. If I ever do it, I'll post it.

kteague wrote:Thanks everyone for your kind, empathetic, and sometimes humorous words both here and by PM. I had a better night last night (if you notice there's not posts by me all hours of the night last night). I just came off of several really rough nights back to back and was a bit worn down.

My oximeter is the 7500 by Nonin. It has several little sheets of instructions. I knew when I saw them I should look at only one at a time, and even then cover all but the line currently being read. See, I know me, but I'm stubborn. Just want to have an overview I told myself. I set myself up for the mental block. Gotta learn to better respect my instincts that guide me in working thru my current state of mind.

It does help to know I'm not alone in dealing with these glitches. I think it would be fun to hear everyone's funniest story about their glitches. Thanks again for your support.

Kathy

P.S. Translating the instructions to poetry - now that intrigues me. If I ever do it, I'll post it.

Kathy
It sounds like the programming instructions for one of my Amateur Radio's if you can gargle peanut butter and stand on your head at the same time you can understand the programing instructions.

I like it when I'm in the living room sitting in my recliner and decide I need to look something up on the internets. I get up and walk about 7 or 8 feet to my computer, fire up Firefox and then sit there and wonder what in the hell I'm supposed to be looking up.

Girl, you are not alone...LOL.

JeffH

Kathy, give yourself a hug and go easy on yourself. I was staring at the same empty boxes in a crossword puzzle today for 30minutes,finally walked away from it, came back later, looked at it once and I knew the word. Can't remember now what the word was but you get the idea!

rested gal wrote:

rise&shiner wrote:The fact that you realize that you were a bit on the brain fuzzy side is good that means that you will be able to have good days. Its when you don't even realize that the fuzz is there that yu should be concerned.

What fuzz???

someone call??????????

Oh Kathy,
You have joined the rest of us . . . that is the ones who draw a blank mentally, once in a while.
It isn't fun when you walk into a room, stand there a minute & think, why did I come in here? It is maddening, frustrating, and it passes. So will yours. Write a funny poem about it, and put it on the forum.

Jan

SaltLakeJan wrote:Oh Kathy,
You have joined the rest of us . . . that is the ones who draw a blank mentally, once in a while.
It isn't fun when you walk into a room, stand there a minute & think, why did I come in here? It is maddening, frustrating, and it passes. So will yours. Write a funny poem about it, and put it on the forum.

Jan

I did that a lot before I ever got on CPAP it seems to go away but not very quickly. Maybe I am still drinking too much coffee & Old Bushmills....

Maybe I am still drinking too much coffee & Old Bushmills..

Mmmmm Bushmills and coffee. Even good together.

jnk wrote:Judging by your posts on this forum, Kathy, you are one of the most mentally on-the-ball and emotionally in-tune people I know. I think we all have mental blocks about some things some of the time. Our job is just to be the best we can be with what we deal with and go through.

Boy, you are soooo right about Kathy. Mentally on-the-ball and emotionally in-tune! She's definitely those things.

You are, too, Jeff!

aka fuzzy96 wrote:someone call??????????

I don't remember. But, Hi there!

Kathy, I hope you're having better days and nights. Brain recovery is quirky. I have little to no patience when I cannot understand something. I have a new (refurbished) laserprinter as my old faithful HP4 died and the damned toner is running low already (not that I've done THAT much printing so far). So I open the door, pull out the cartridge and this huge assembly of stuff comes out...all screwed together. So I shove it back inside and close the door, powerup the PC and go looking for a cartridge. They say this is a color printer...nope, not what I've got. Instead of looking for a manual or calling the folks who found this for me, I end up in total frustration and now I don't wanna deal with it. Now I write instructions for artifical intelligence systems, systems used to control traffic & variable message signs, systems to control cross-continental phone service, systems to assign all of the myriad of equipment used to supply phone/data service, systems for 800 numbers services, systems that control water distribution systems. I read complex, arcane info from engineers and design docs written by those for whom English is a (poor) second language and translate it into something understandable to those without that techical background. I interview subject matter experts and make presentations to customers, facilitate vendor-customer joint development sessions...get my pic here? and I'm stymied by a laserprinter???? It's my frustration with not immediately comprehending a situation or a thing that just drives me nuts...I used to be able to precisely do that, I've earned my living for yrs doing just that. Brain recovery is slow. I am still not where I was in recovery last Feb when I went adventuring losing therapy air...I see signs of improvement but I'm not where I used to be yet. I keep reminding myself when I have one of these 'little' episodes to appreciate the positive things that have occurred like finally being able to read complex material and not feel abysmally, hopelessly confused as I did for awhile. I keep telling myself I can do this, maybe not quite as quickly but still just as competently, then I put aside whatever it is that's making me nuts and go do something else for awhile, like watch a Food Channel show, plan a new recipe, do 20 mins on the exercise bike, read a chapter in whatever escapist book I'm reading, chat with a friend, logon here, read email. I know I'm doing better, I planted pansies and spread some grass seed 2 wks ago; the flowers are blooming (haven't really cked them since they went in the ground) and the grass is sprouting so I spread some more around bare areas; have NOT cared about flowers or the grass in several yrs...progress. Gotta celebrate the small signs along the way 'cause there sure are a lotta bumps on this journey.

PS The laserprinter and I have come to a better understanding.

rested gal wrote:

jnk wrote:Judging by your posts on this forum, Kathy, you are one of the most mentally on-the-ball and emotionally in-tune people I know. I think we all have mental blocks about some things some of the time. Our job is just to be the best we can be with what we deal with and go through.

Boy, you are soooo right about Kathy. Mentally on-the-ball and emotionally in-tune! She's definitely those things.

You are, too, Jeff!

aka fuzzy96 wrote:someone call??????????

I don't remember. But, Hi there!

Jeff, you are definitely in tune!!