My amazing husband came up with doing “super fantastic lady days”. They basically entail an amazing lunch or doing an activity of my choosing after doctor’s appointments. I look forward to these days since going out to dinner these days is few and far between. First off I can’t stay up that late and I am not 100% comfortable with it yet. Lunches seem a lot less pressure and less people. When you have a compromised immune system the less people thing matters a lot.
So whenever I can’t find the right words or say something that doesn’t make sense, I jokingly say it’s “chemo brain”. It happens in a LOT of people who go through chemotherapy. The brain slows and you feel slower. Well now they are actually starting to research this “chemo brain” and the effects that chemo has on the brain. Here is the article I found.