I have noticed that other than my memory lapses, I am also finding it hard to connect with people, meaning that I don't quite catch on with what was said, so much so that my responses are off and sometimes unrelated.
If it is an ongoing conversation on the same subject, I could still follow. But if it is a one-off unrelated question, usually a very general one, I find that sometimes I am momentarily stunned, that what comes out as an answer might cause the other party to consider as weird. And usually after some time, I would realise that I gave a weird answer to a practical question.
Not only that, I am also losing touch with common sense. E emailed from Thailand to say she may be visiting in June depending on the latest flu situation. I replied that Singapore has lowered the level of alert concering the flu virus, only to have her tell me that it wasn't Singapore that she was worried about, but the flight here. Duh?
I also find myself conversing in dialect or mixing Mandarin with dialect with my children, something which they could not understand, and I would only realised it when I finished talking.
I don't know if it's due to too much on my mind (overloading), menopausal, chemo brain, old age, or a combination of all.
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