Accepting that today is just kind of a cruddy M.E. day where everything feels thick and buzzed out, including focus and enjoyment.
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I have a much harder time thinking these days. There are times I'm so tired that when I go to talk, I speak gibberish. I forget words all the time. Trying to find the word is like dragging my brain through a glue trap. I have a hard time reading any one thing for very long. I'm glad I can still write coherently, but I don't seem able to write much after supper. I'm also finding that I have an extremely hard time concentrating on much of anything after supper. I'm afraid I'll have to stop signing up for online evening classes because I can barely stay alert during them. It feels an awful lot like when I had mono back in 1989. #LongCovidAwarenessDay #LongCovid #Covid #BrainFog
Psychologist Kimberley Wilson Shares Tips to Beat Brain Fog https://shinemycrown.com/psychologist-kimberley-wilson-shares-tips-to-beat-brain-fog/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BrainFog #MentalHealth #Psychology #Wellness #MemoryTips
I'm struggling in the comfortable but bone weary state I think might be healing, but it's hard to relax into, because survival. 
I continue to yearn for something like long covid recovery homes.
I think things would shift for a lot of people if they could just get a chance to rest deeply and be well nourished for a few months in a row.
I'm not sure what's up with my brain, but some days reading text is really hard, slow and content appears incomprehensible, and sometimes the very same text is like 1st grade text book to my brain.
And once again, only 2 hours and 10 minutes…
It's been 2 years since this started and I can’t get past the magical maximum of 2 hours and 30 minutes of focus. Anything beyond that is devastatingly exhausting. I slept through almost the entire Saturday because I pushed my limits on Friday.
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I'm the past year, how many cars running a red light have you seen?
#Cognitive Decline #Covid #LongCovid #BrainFog
*Personally I had never witnessed this in my 40 some years of driving.
Dear #Autiverse, how do you handle brain fog? It's been near unbearable for days now, can't think / concentrate. Suggestions / ideas welcome.
Somehow it's already March, but here is my #BookReview summary for 2024.
69 books this year! Which is getting up towards the glory years of the late 2010s. In last year's summary I noted that the number of books I had read had dropped, possibly due to reading more news & articles. I went cold-turkey on the news for a good chunk of 2024, so perhaps that helped get my numbers back up.
I read 25,486 pages (70 pages/day), compared to 20,500 in 2023 (56 pages/day).
My average rating is up to 3.6 stars, which is amongst the highest since records began in 2009. This is due to an unusually high proportion of 4 star books (33%, compared to 20-25% typically), and low proportion of 3 stars books. This isn't explained by a shift in genre, so I've either made some good book choices or was feeling particularly generous.
In keeping with the zeitgeist, I partly fell off the #DEI bandwagon by reading more male authors than I have been. But I maintained my level of non-White authors. I had thoughtlessly stopped explicitly selecting from my To Read list based on gender, but had continued to do so based on diversity. Just goes to show that it requires effort to push back against the systemic biases of society (did someone mention DEI?).
My slide into fiction dominance continues. I blame #BrainFog and the fact that life is too short to beat yourself up about reading choices.
Notables:
* Cosy fiction is a thing, and it's great: Try "A Prayer For The Crown-Shy" by Becky Chambers (5 stars) and "Legends & Lattes" by Travis Baldree.
* Fun Times in Hobart Town: "The Angry Women's Choir" by Meg Bignell (4.5 stars)
* Too Close to the Bone: "The Deluge" By Stephen Markley (4.5 stars)
* Traumatic Youth: "Lola In The Mirror" by Trent Dalton (5 stars), "Young Mungo" by Douglas Stuart (4.5 stars), "Jasper Jones" by Craig Silvey (4.5 stars)
* Horrifyingly Fascinating: "Plagues Upon The Earth" by Kyle Harper (4 stars) and "Nine Lives" by Aimen Dean (both 4 stars).
* Most Somnolent: "The Silmarillion" By JJR Tolkein (3.5 stars)
* Underwhelming: "Leviathan Wakes" by James Corey (first in The Expanse series, 3 stars)
* Formulaic Time-Suck: "An Ember In The Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir. As I finished it I really liked it, but as time passed I realised how empty my absorption had been.
* Most Controversial: "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (2 stars)
See the full list here:
https://wildwoila.blogspot.com/2025/03/book-reviews-2024.html
Follow me on #BookWyrm here:
https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila
Unless you have or care for a person with #MultipleSclerosis, it's hard to explain how it feels. It's more than just walking; it causes pain, anger, depression, fear, and new issues daily.
#MS #Fatigue #Pain #BrainFog #spasticity
#MSAwareness
I went to type something and started typing: t y p e
#brainFog #needCoffee
The feeling when you had some really big thoughts you needed to put down on paper at 2am, but then thought, nah, they will be there tomorrow. I got this.
I don't got this. 
Just non stop brain fog. 
What it's like having cognitive issues from your illnesses
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