It’s just Kung Fu!

This last week has been a variety of appointments with different teams.  I met with an Occupational Therapist for a “brain fog” assessment and tools to use to help with this.  This condition has been weighing heavily on me as we start the conversations about returning to work.

I have noticed my ability to remember things is impacted the more that I try to do things.  The more stressed I am, the worse it gets.  Luckily there have been so many adaptations available that I decreased the stress.  I do not remember many of my forms so I have been focusing on two and getting my body and my brain back to some type of normal before expanding.  On our 1-1, Sifu Rybak told me to continue working on my forms during my class and not worry about learning any new forms.  This was a huge relief and confirmed that I was on the right track.

My “brain fog” assessment went well.  I was a little below normal but high functioning. She asked what I was doing to help cope.  I told her about Tai Chi, ACE exercises, KF classes, meditation, starting gentle yoga for cancer patients, do memory and word games, starting a cancer QiGong class and a Brain Fog class.  I make lots of lists and lots of alarms to ensure I don’t miss things (and I still miss things).  She told me how I was doing absolutely everything that she would have recommended and was quite surprised.  I was happy but at the same time frustrated.

I was hoping for a magic bullet but it was just another instance of slow and steady progress is the correct pathway to improvement.  It really is just Kung Fu, my path is a bit different than yours but the foundation is the same.