Today I am overwhelmed. Some things while i might can do them it is so laborous.. i become overwhlemed by the labor it takes to do what seems to be simple but is not simple for me to do Dealing with numbers is so hard. I received a letter from the bank saying that had not received any information that we have insurance on the car. Using the phone book is usuless to me. My mind can not "find" the name or phone number. I have learned to use google search and it will take me streight to the place i want and give me the phone number. If only it would dial it for me, sigh. Then the real challange begins; trying to dial the numbers. My brain does strange things with a string of numbers; the number disappear, merge, change places, swirl, hide, disapear, and then I have to deal with trying to find the number on the key pad... same issues of strange things happening with the numbers. Okay i get the number dialed and I am now talking to an operator at the bank. She wants id numbers that are on the letter. I explain I can not see them... She is able to look the info up using my name, some relief. What everyone ealse takes as no big deal is an ordeal for me. But I did it. I took care of the business. A year and a half ago following brain surgery I could not even dial a number at all; so frustrating. But I am able to dial numbers Now it is just very very hard and labor intensive and determination bent on doing it. Too much life all at once. Brain surgery, colon polup removed, fibroids embolized, constant brain eye changes, pms cramps, and now pre menapuase. Yeah for premenapause; bring it on.
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Whenever it is difficult for me to dial a phone number or read a number to someone, I take 2 pieces of paper and cover up all the numbers to the left and right of the number I am trying to read. When it comes to putting the number in the phone, I have one with really big numbers. That helps some, but I mess up anyway.