How working too many hours can affect my cognition

I had a very long day at work today since I had to work both jobs! I worked six and a half hours at my first job which is working as a para educator in an elementary school. My second job is a cashier at a retail store and this was a four-hour shift. A ten-and-a-half-hour day of work just doesn't work for my brain but I don't know what to do about it.

At the beginning of my shift as a cashier, I went to the register that I was assigned to. I found a pair of glasses and I asked another cashier if she knew whose glasses they were. She told me who they belonged to and told me what register they were working at. When I looked for the cashier, she was not at that register. I put the glasses at that register thinking that they might be returning there. It must have been about three hours later and the cashier who was missing the glasses asked me if I saw her glasses. I told her to check the register that she was last working at. It took her a few minutes but she was able to find them.

One of my customers heard this conversation happening and they made a comment, “boy, you have a really good memory.” I think that I silently laughed since I couldn't laugh out loud. I told the customer that I really didn't have a good memory and it was actually quite the opposite. I told her that medication could only help so much and she would be surprised and possibly shocked if she really knew what I was dealing with!

Even though I was able to remember where the glasses were and many other things today, but now my brain is not so clear when it comes to words. This lack of comprehension can sometimes drive me crazy! Oh well. I'm really grateful for the clarity that I did have. Perhaps tomorrow will be a better day.