Several times a day, I struggle to find the most simple of words. During conversations,a few times a week, I lose track of whatever point I was trying to make. The shortout that occurs the most is misspronoucing words. I will want to say the word "apple",but it will come out as "happle". When I try to correct myself,it will leave my mouth sounding like an old record skipping.......

Will the memory, and speech problems subside, or is this another permanent reminder of our battle with cancer?

-This is from the FAQ - from Google, my newsreader doesn't copy/paste too well. Sorry ! Once it's on a webpage, I won't have to paste these long posts (with line width problems which make it messy) and probably doesn't answer your question anyway.

-This is my second fight with colon cancer and I'm still on chemo for this round.(started in Dec. of last year) By now, your "chemo brain" should have subsided. I get chemo brain for a few days after my treatment, then I get back to "normal". Usually with my chemo brain, I'm floating around Mars for a couple of days, then I settle down. When the chemo finally gets out of your system, which by now, it should be, you should be getting back to normal. You might want to see a neurologist and let them do a MRI of your brain. That will show if you have any brain damage.

I don't quit know what "normal" is anymore, since I suffered a stroke on the table during my first cancer operation, back in Feb. of 2000. I suffer from short term memory loss plus the loss of fine motor skills on the left side of my body.