Chemo brain - seriously!

Hi Everyone,
Well, I've been working hard on trying to get my body back into normalcy but what about my mind? some of you I'm sure are convinced that it's been gone for a long time, but seriously I really can say that I've noticed the effect of the chemo on my brain. I've been trying to get back of the swing of things mathematically, that is by doing a little math every day beginning with the concepts and skills that my students are learning just to freshen up. Yesterday I felt as if I were in a slow motion moment...for about two hours. Seriously, my synapses were firing very slowly or those neural pathways are a bit cluttered from all of the dust in the dendrites. Ugh. I'm glad that I'm working on it becuase I need to get my brain back in shape. Even simple calculations seem to take much longer and things that I just knew and could fire off quickly are now a bit labored to arrive at. I'm sure all of my students would laugh, that would be the best revenge, right? A teacher who's brain is sluggish at math?
It's like riding a bike I'm sure so that in a few months I'll be back in the flow of things mathematically speaking. it's just that I havent looked at any of that stuff in ten months. I really didn't think that I would forget it but I find that sometimes I'm forgetting steps or making careless errors or just forgetting pieces of concepts. It's coming back though. I was working on absolute value equations yesterday and those were cool. Today I'm reviewing solving quadratics. It's fun, really becuase I enjoy arriving at the answer and just the puzzled process that one has to go through to get there and the shortcuts that you can find to make it easier. I just think it's cool how it all works out in the end, that's all. Not that I was an avid fan of math in high school myself but algebra was always kind of fun becuase it just made sense, that's all.
Anyway, thought you might like to have a laugh on me. I can officially say that I have had chemo brain and I am working on getting it back :-)

Meanwhile, the neck and shoulders are bothering me and I'm doing what I can exercise and physical therapy wise but have really really done hardly anything with arms. I haven't been feeling the greatest either Saturday or yesterday but, hey, I had about a week and a half where my energy was off the wall so a setback of a few days is fine. It's just nice to know that things are headed in an upward direction :-)

Julie