My difficulty orienting myself has sort of morphed into an additional new weird symptom that I've really taken notice of just in the last couple of days. I get my lefts and rights confused and imagine/remember things in sort of mirror images of themselves. It's BIZARRE.
I met my friends Carly and Denise for dinner the other night, and I pointed out the tasty sweet potato tots on the menu. Carly asked where they were, and I said bottom right side. But they were on the left. (And yes, the tots were GOOD.)
I know the order of the streets in downtown Seattle, as I've been navigating them for years. Denise and I were driving to pick up Carly, and she said we'd turn on University. In my head, as we went through Pine, I was convinced that we had already driven through University, as I was picturing that the streets were completely reversed (e.g. instead of Pine, Pike, Union, University, etc., I was picturing them as University, Union, Pike, Pine, etc.). I've NEVER done that.
And today, I was driving (safely and confidently!) to Breakfast Club, knowing I would need to take an exit off of I-90. I was mentally preparing for the exit to be on the left side of the freeway... but they're almost ALWAYS on the right, including this one (which I've totally taken before).
This weird symptom is definitely contributing to my lack of sense of direction and ability to orient myself. I just hope it's temporary and that my brain will relearn all of these things, instead of making me feel backwards and wonky all the time! :\
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