Here we are at the start of a new week and time to explore some more blog posts. This week has passed in a blur of hospital visits – as you know if you’ve read about my rusty old body int the last couple of posts! – and I must admit complete brain fog and cluster headaches.
The brain fog has caused much hilarity at times when my words have come out as something completely different to how they started in my brain. Officially called expressive dyphasia, and commonly seen with strokes, I don’t think I’ll tell you how it is described in our house….I have experienced it once before when playing football at school aged about 12. I had a head on collision with a friend, nearly knocked her teeth out, and then proceeded to become very concussed over the next couple of hours. By the time I reached hospital, I couldn’t walk, speak or see – as the swelling inside my head started to subside, I remember being asked questions, knowing the answer but the words that came out were not connected to my brain! I am sure that some family members would say that nothing has changed…..
I’m just reading a science fiction book and came across this passage “There’s a small subset of people whose cognitive functions get scrambled in outer space. Something about how the pressure change of the vacuum affects the bonds between molecules in the neurons of their brains.” (All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai) I had a light bulb moment – “YES! This is brain fog – even if it is in space”.
But moving on – checking over my spreadsheet of Monday Magic posts, I am amazed to see that there have been links for an amazing 354 blogs and some of those have featured several times. What a fantastic number of inspiring and motivational bloggers there are out there, and I feel that I find more new blogs every week. So please take some time, sit down with a cuppa and enjoy some great posts with a bit of a self care theme running through them – all spoonie mums, my mate Jen Hardy would be really grateful if you would answer her survey ahead of a podcast.
https://loveisconfusing.com/2017/08/16/three-steps-to-loving-yourself/
https://iterryblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/signed-and-sealed-with-love/
http://wherecomesthesun.com/practise-self-care-year/
https://fancy-like-that.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/me-myself-and-my-cfs.html
http://www.chronicallyroyal.co.uk/2018/01/just-asthma-why-we-should-take-asthma.html?m=1
https://www.jenhardy.net/take-survey-podcast-chronically-ill-moms/
http://www.sunshineandspoons.com/2018/01/25-products-that-make-life-with-chronic.html
https://kellyontherun.com/2018/01/16/single-not-pregnant/
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Have a great week,
Claire x
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Thank you so much for sharing the link to my blog post. You’re right there is a lot of great motivational bloggers everyone needs some encouragement and inspiration.
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I found the medal for the football tournament we were practising for the other day! I nearly threw it away then put it in the ‘keep’ box! Hope the fog clears and your tune-up has helped. xxx
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Thanks for some more great new posts to discover! And ouch about the head-on collision when you were so young, that sounds more than a little ‘discombobulating’ (an under-used word!) to end up reaching hospital like that. I remember when I was about the same age, maybe 11, one of the bully girls loosened the netball/basketball pole and when I went underneath it they let it drop down – hit me on the head, and that’s what I blame for both my fibro fog now and my lack of height as I’m pretty sure I haven’t grown any taller since! x
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