If I only had a brain..... I need the Wizard!!!

On Friday I am having a CT-scan of my brain. I have been struggling with what is described at chemo brain, mild cognitive impairment. It was previously thought that chemotherapy drugs didn't enter your brain, but were kept out by the blood-brain barrier, which separates chemicals that should be in your brain from those that shouldn't. Researchers now suspect some chemotherapy drugs may be able to slip past the blood-brain barrier. This could potentially affect your brain and your memory.

The scan was ordered just to make sure there is nothing else going on.

Signs and symptoms of chemo brain include:

■Being unusually disorganized
■Confusion
■Difficulty concentrating
■Difficulty finding the right word
■Difficulty learning new skills
■Difficulty multitasking
■Fatigue
■Feeling of mental fogginess
■Short attention span
■Short-term memory problems
■Taking longer than usual to complete routine tasks
■Trouble with verbal memory, such as remembering a conversation
■Trouble with visual memory, such as recalling an image or list of words

Signs and symptoms of cognitive or memory problems vary from person to person and are typically temporary, often subsiding within two years of completion of cancer treatment.