A disconnection with words

Over the past year and half, I’ve been feeling a disconnection from words and it is causing me stress. A little more than seven years after my diagnosis, I still struggle with my memory, word retrieval, but the decline that I have noticed is related to understanding language. I can still read, but sometimes understanding words is extremely difficult. On these days or moments, I am probably not posting much on social media. I’m usually very aware of this happening, so that just adds to my frustration. I’m very social, so communicating with people is extremely important to me!!

Over the summer, I’ve noticed that my cognition is much more stable. This might be because I’m consistently remembering to take my medicine and I’m also working much less hours because I'm not working at the school. I also just reduced my hours at the retail store that I work at. Although it is only two less hours per week, I'm hoping that it will help with my cognition when school starts again in a few weeks. I was working fifty and a half hours a week and once I go back to school, I’ll be working forty-eight and a half hours per week.

Luckily, I’m still able to be successful at both of my jobs. Sometimes I wonder how much longer I’ll be able to hold it together at work. I’m so blessed to have a job that I truly enjoy and that I can still make a difference in my student’s education.