Comments | aetheldaeg: brain mush

aetheldaeg

brain mush

Feb 14, 2006 17:12

I have been reading that chemo will turn your brain to mush...it has aparently happened to me.(I have to provide some back ground info first.) We have four cats. The lone male cat is a great white hunter. He likes to steal frozen meat that used thaw on the counter and throw it down the basement stairs and generally make it unfit for human ( Read more... )

scatter brained, chemo brain

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Feel better about yourself. nikator February 15 2006, 01:00:58 UTC

Bwah ha ha. It happens, lol.

** hug **

You're not losing your marbles, and I'll tell you a little anecdote to make you feel better.

I decided to make nuclear popcorn, and threw it on the microwaveable lid. Well, the heated seeds melted the lid and caused the bag to stick. We had company over (I don't remember who) but I stunk up the place.

Yeah.

And then there was the short-lived burner covers... they had the element imprints burned into them (and paint reeks when you burn it).

And...

I even set fire to an oven mitt from touching the oven element.

I'm the biggest moron in the kitchen.

I hope I cheered you up.

Re: Feel better about yourself. aetheldaeg February 15 2006, 01:19:19 UTC

LOL. You do cheer me up. However I have some serious kitchen disasters pre chemo when I was mostly just blond ( ... )

My friends are even screw-ups. nikator February 15 2006, 01:43:47 UTC

Back in tha day, I was friends with this girl, Erin. We had a sleepover, and in the morning, she attempted to bake an angel food cake.

1. She ran out of margarine, and substituted with lard.
2. The cake formed a bubble in it approximately the size of a golf ball.

Bwah ha ha ha.

Nothing worked for her, either. Her aunt trained dogs, and they brought over a British Bull dog named 'Molson'. Molson was too fat to do anything, but when he learned to climb stairs, he went up to her room and took a large, runny dump on her poetry.

How's that for constructive criticism?

kailiia February 15 2006, 01:08:15 UTC

then again there is me.. my first time making peanut butter cookies alone the all turned into charcoal brikets.. oo and then there was the pan of burning.. borwnies that looks like brownies, smelled like brownies and werent burnt.. but when bitten into taste like charcoal.

i burned water (chemistry class) and have singed off part of mt ari hair defending my oven from a flaming oven mitt ;)

nikator February 15 2006, 01:13:50 UTC

If we must compete :P ...

My meat balls turned out like cubes... I turned them (to cook them evenly) and they became meat-cubes.

I scorched cream in a pan to the point where it had be thrown out.

My mom asked me to make whipped cream and I beat bits of the bowl into it.

And I food-poisoned myself several times.

I win!

I'm truly the biggest loser in the kitchen. nikator February 15 2006, 01:16:13 UTC

Oh, wait!

I worked in a bakery.

All we had to do was add water to the angel food cake mix, and I still loused it up. They baked, but when I took them out, despite the "running your finger along the top and see if it makes no trail" test passing, it collapsed under its own weight, and the 6" cakes ALL (30 of them) were two inches in height five minutes later.

Kai, the "Kitchen Screw-up" sash rightfully belongs to me.

Relax and Enjoy the Ride georgiaskydiver February 15 2006, 01:59:46 UTC

LOLOLOL. You have officially passed the initiation.

Just wait until you find your self sitting naked in the car in the garage, a bowl of raisin bran in your hands, the shower is running upstairs, and you're worried about where your cell phone is.

Welcome to the Brain Fog Club! We'll teach you the secret handshake tomorrow . . . that is if we remember.

xoxoxoxo

Re: Relax and Enjoy the Ride aetheldaeg February 15 2006, 02:21:04 UTC

Why thank you. I think I'll pass on the whole sitting in the garage naked thing if you don't mind. Our garage is not attached and it is supposed to be a balmy +5 F for the next couple of days. BRRRR

Re: Relax and Enjoy the Ride georgiaskydiver February 15 2006, 02:31:05 UTC

LOL! Okay, we'll let you pass on the garage experience. Just don't try waxing your own eyebrows while on chemo.

Trust me. I speak from {{unibrow}} experience. We won't even get into the whole superglue thing . . .

Re: Relax and Enjoy the Ride aetheldaeg February 15 2006, 02:37:20 UTC

I will defer to your wisdom wrt eyebrow waxing and yes; it is best if we don't get into the superglue thing. LOL

opakele February 15 2006, 04:08:04 UTC

I just don't cook. It just wouldn't be wise. I can barely remember what I wore yesterday. It will get worse before it gets better. Tell Hubby he's the cook from now on.

not good aetheldaeg February 15 2006, 06:16:33 UTC

Hubby doesn't really cook. He makes good scrambled eggs and can open a can of soup. Other than that it is take out. Too scarey to think about.

Quaker Oatmeal, good for the soul! jarman321 February 15 2006, 05:11:55 UTC

Not quite mush, but oatmeal. lumpy, yet spots with brown sugar that warms your tummy!
I never had any spare room in an old apartment of mine for the broiler pan, so I kept it in the oven proper. I always forgot to pull it out for pre-heat!

And stay away from fasteners, glues and tools like hammers, screwdrivers and saws! I've had an argument with a superglue container that wanted to stay with my thumb and fore-finger longer than I hoped for! :)

Congrat's on the Valentino of a hubby, the Duncan Fife table must be a treasure! Does it's feet have claws?

Re: Quaker Oatmeal, good for the soul! aetheldaeg February 15 2006, 06:26:23 UTC

Well as far as tools I am safe. I never use real tools. A high heel shoe work well as a hammer and a dinner knife works as a screwdriver. I have super glued my fingers together, my finger to my glasses, to a piece of floor tile and to one of kai's toys when she was little. I am a very "talented" person.

The table legs do have claws, they appear to be brass ones or some sort of metal. It is mahogany and I yes, I think it is a treasure.