While training at the gym, I accidentally looked at the sun reflecting off a windshield and that triggered my scintillating scotoma. I spent the final third of my gym time minus about a third of my vision. A bright circle of electric blue-white light, like sparks from an arc welder, strobed across my field of vision. I was afraid I wouldn’t be ok to ride my bike home, but thankfully it went away after about fifteen minutes. I guess I’m going to have to wear my sunglasses at the gym.
Whenever this strikes, I’m always scared it will not go away. At its worst, I’ve had it 24/7 for four months across about 75% of my vision. Because it’s such an unusual disorder, most folks have no idea how incapacitating it is. I usually get a sort of hangover afterwards which leaves me with increased brain fog.
#WordWeavers 2404.29 — Who's feeling shame in your story? Is it justified?
/It's'a [#brainfog#fibromyalgia day, but I'm gonna write this to get something out. Hoping it's coherent. —RS/]
This question made me think hard for quite awhile until I—like an artist or a photographer deciphering how shadow defines volume and dimension—saw /negative space/ in a story... where something wasn't. Emptiness.
Wintereyes /doesn't/ feel #shame, and I'm realizing this is an #emotion with which I can make a #feminist point in my story. Whilst shame is IMHO used more often to control women than it is men, it is both incidious and /learned./ Shame is a combination of built-in emotions programmed into a person to make a person self-punish for "wrong" behavior even if it's secret; it's related to, but not the same as guilt.
Wintereyes was raised by wolves, but not until she was 7 when her "gift" caused her to seek a second set of parents. Her early childhood will require investigation in another story, but I'm pretty sure her human parents didn't teach her the emotion; it's not that she forgot. Forced to live again amongst humans over a decade later, to become more human, people's behavior baffles her. Late in the story, when she's asked to disrobe by stylist at a modeling shoot, and does without a thought, the stylist observes, "You don't feel shame, do you?" This is where Wintereyes will go off like a firecracker, and it should be very interesting.
The stylist may actually feel ashamed...
The author is [#actuallyautistic and retains copyright (c)2024 R..S.]
"49% of adults in Canada have below high-school literacy levels, and 17% are unable to follow written instructions or read maps."
"Half adults in the U.S. struggle to read a book written for eighth-graders."
If your first instinct is 'why are people ‘dumb’?’ you are elitist and not inclusive. There are plenty of immigrants and others. As web professionals it should be your job to include everyone
I have a truly horrid sore throat (thanks for sharing, son) so I took a couple of paracetamol earlier. When I got the sleeve out, one pill was gone. So I know I've taken one dose of two tablets. I can remember thinking about the 4-hour dose timings: 7pm, 11pm, then sleep. But I can't remember if 7pm is when I took the first, or when I was due the next.
This is why #BrainFog is a big deal. It's just paracetamol for a sore throat... this time.
In the absence of a brain that can process novelty, I've been re-watching my favorite shows, which has been a nice opportunity to slow down and observe things like plot structure and what makes these shows so good.
I have apparently been doing so much of this I woke myself up critiquing the plot unfolding in my dreams.
March 20, 2024. I’ve been reading anecdotal Covid related posts since 2020 and they don’t seem to be getting any milder or better. I can’t imagine where we’ll be in just a few years from now. 🤷♂️ It’s a slow outta-control COVID train wreck that no one wants to talk about…
#BrainFog is really acting up today. #Fibro pain is much higher than normal too. Thanks to the brain fog, I totally spaced on a group #therapy session earlier.
Severe COVID-19 that requires hospitalization or intensive care may result in cognitive deficits and other brain damage that are equivalent to 20 years of aging.
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From the very early days of the pandemic, #brainfog emerged as a significant health condition that many experience after #COVID 19. 🧠 fog ( a state of mental sluggishness or lack of clarity ,haziness that makes it difficult to concentrate, remember things & think clearly) Fast-forward 4 years & more evidences that being infected with #SarsCoV2 can affect 🧠 health in many ways
🇮🇪Irish scientists discover why people with long COVID can suffer ‘brain fog’
"The research, published in Nature Neuroscience on Thursday, shows disruption to the integrity of blood vessels in the brains of patients suffering from long Covid and brain fog"
@lonelinesscorps
The thing I struggle the most with loneliness wise is my cognition. I often just don't have the words for banter and especially miss having deep chats on a variety of topics. This is particularly frustrating when I am physically isolated and online stuff is my main way to connect.
I long to be in a room full of people all quietly not talking, just being physically present.
Brain fog is one of the most common, persistent complaints in patients with long Covid. It affects as many as 46% of patients who also deal with other cognitive concerns like memory loss and difficulty concentrating.
For those keeping track o me, am covid negative and now just clearing up the detritus of inflammation and usual chronic illness fallout from a major stressor (and this was fucking major, crikey).
My cognition has been pretty wrecked and my social spoons down near zero so not much for chatting, been afk a lot, but I am doing ok and on the mend.
My brain is blarg and I can't fix it. But my brain is attached to my body so if I go and do something kind for my body: a walk, some stretching, heck even take some deep breaths, my brain is probably getting some of the splashback of that love. #spoonieLife#selfCare#lettingGo#brainFog
A new study from Sweden 🇸🇪 suggests that mild COVID-19 can cause several years of "brain fog"
Nowadays, many people see COVID-19 more like a cold and not as something you need to worry about so much. But new research from Danderyd hospital that even mild infections, without any need to seek medical care, can cause long-term impairments in memory, attention and ability to learn new information.
I think it's 1 in 3 people will have Covid by the end of Jan?
People are pressured to go back to work while they are sick.
I don't know about you, but I DO NOT want someone doing maintenance on an airplane I will be in, while they at best, are not at 100%, at worse are struggling w/ #BrainFog
I’ve been trying to figure out how to describe brain fog to those who have not experienced it, using things they might have felt. The closest I can get is:
It’s like being high on cannabis without the pleasurable part.
It’s like being hungover without having had any alcohol.
It’s like the way you would feel after pulling two all-nighters in a row and not drinking any coffee.
It feels like you have traumatic brain injury (“concussion”) but from the inside out.
Anyone else have any foggy thoughts?
I’m crashing today after having to over-exert myself this weekend and last night with snow removal and the fog is thick today.
Daily life feeling foggy, bleak and cloudy. Sometimes it clears, usually a little each afternoon but the clouds soon gather again and it's the same the next day.
ALT: abstract colour photo of tinfoil, with a stain that looks like fog/cloud.
Ik liep rond 11 vanochtend de kelder in om de gourmetbakjes en het brood uit de diepvries te halen. Ik leg ook meteen de mini magnums uit om boven in de diepvries te leggen.
Klaar met gourmet wil de man graag een ijsje. Maar...ik vind de magnums niet.
Ow. Ow nee! Nee!
Jawel! Beneden in de kelder op de plank laten liggen. Hele doos was pap.
We hebben dan maar wat chocomousse gegeten als toetje.
#brainfog treatments like BrainGain ®️ contain luteolin - a naturally occurring chemical in olive oil, oregano, parsley, rosemary, thyme, and green pepper.
It's also in artichoke, celery, broccoli, carrots, navel oranges, dandelion, chamomile tea, and peppermint.