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I've come up with a word for how I feel lately:

Scatterbrained

Not like I can't think, but like I'm thinking about too many things and unable to concentrate to completion on any single one. I will be in the middle of a conversation and a thought will occur to me and my brain will flit off in that direction. And this has been going on all day, for several days.

Maybe it has to do with having too much on my plate, maybe too little sleep. Both are the case at the moment. I need a brain vacation, then I need some brain calisthenics to tone it back up, so I can feel like I really listen in conversation, really finish memos and tasks at work, really finish chores at home.

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[dcis-warrior.livejournal.com]

OH HOW I AM WITH YOUE SISTER!!!!

this is how i spent a lot of my life before chemo, they use to call me gerbil on speed cus i was always running to do something! usaully for someone else!

gave me coping skills for chemo though, or is ti that chemo gives me an excuse people can understand. no, it is different, but the appearence is similar.

[redsquirrel.livejournal.com]

Huh. There's a lot of anecdotal stuff going around about "tamoxifen brain." Absolutely no hard evidence, though. I've always been scatterbrained (I'm ADD) but since the chemo and being on tamoxifen it seems to be worse. But it's the kind of thing that's hard to tell, exactly. Supposedly its cumulative - gets worse the longer you're on the tamoxifen. Again, it's hard to tell if it's one of those self-fulfilling prophecy things.