Is It This, Or Is It That? Or Is It Simply Age?

Carolyn Cordon
3 min readSep 4, 2024

To fill you in, I’d better give you the details about this issue that has become (seemingly) extremely important in my life fight now.

To start with, the problem (or issue if you prefer), is that I am feeling as though my brain is currently fighting through a barrier of clouds to start working properly.

Oh those clouds, please clear away, so I can do what I need to do! Writer’s image

If you’ve heard of the term ‘Cog Fog’ or Cognitive Fog, that’s what the problem is. The clouds don’t shut out everything, but I’m not operating at the top of my thought processes at the moment.

The question of why this is happening to me is the thing that I’m wondering about, because the answer that question might shed a light on what the best thing to do about it might be.

So now we know what it’s about, the Big question is this: Why is it happening to me, right when I need to thing things through, important money kinds of things?

So here are the reasons to the questions posed in the Headline of this article: Is it my chronic illness — MS (Multiple Sclerosis), kicking in the way it can sometimes?

Cog fog is certainly a well known symptom for those of us living with MS, and while I usually manage well with the things I need to do to get things done, at the moment, it feels like a struggle.

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Carolyn Cordon

Writer & Presenter — Poetry, prose, blogging, editor Mallala Crossroad Chronicle. Words are my tools, I use them well!