If I only had a brain

I spent the day today doing a research assignment for my leadership class.  I find myself enjoying school work.  It makes me feel as if I am preparing to beat MS by proving that I can still use my brain.

For the research study for MS I am participating in, I have to go through a couple different cognitive exams.  An example is remember a list of words, then repeating the words periodically throughout the exam.  Another one is what we have called monotone man.  He reads a set of numbers, with in 3 seconds you have to add.  The catch is the next number he says has to be added not to the sum of the previous, but rather to the 2nd number in the previous equations.  So in essence you don't remember the sum, but the number of the equation.  It goes pretty fast, non stop for a few minutes.  After that you do the same thing but with a 2 sec interval between number.  3 seconds no problem, 2 seconds adds a little roadblock at times.  The weird thing is that I am told that I have exceptional cognitive skills, but what they don't know is I have very different cognitive skills now.

I find myself typing now with all these misspellings that never would have appeared before.  I usually catch grammatical errors very efficiently.  But now, I will post something without even noticing what I misspelled or utilizing a word out of context.  My brain doesn't process the little things like it used to.  I am hoping by having to do some intellectual thinking with school, maybe I can regain some of these skills back.

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."~Albert Einstein