Room 23 by Kavita Basi

Author:Kavita Basi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2018-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

Throughout the day, and between meetings, my colleagues trickled in one by one to say hello.

“I’m so happy you made it through,” one said.

“We’re all wishing you the best of luck,” another said.

I hadn’t realized how much my colleagues respected and missed me. Their kind words were a bright spot in an otherwise difficult day. I felt wanted and happy, though in just a couple hours I was exhausted. My job was fast-paced, and required quick turnaround. I was used to selling something one minute and moving on to something else the next. Sometimes it was five or six things at once. Fashion changed rapidly, but I excelled under pressure; that was how I’d gotten to where I was in my company.

But now I was faced with memory loss. I had a list of new customers I’d never worked with before, and I couldn’t remember their names—on top of which I generally forgot what I was doing after five minutes. My multitasking skills were gone. When more than one person talked in the meeting at once that day, I missed what people were saying. Everything was taking me five times longer to do than it had in the past. I misinterpreted figures. I couldn’t read spreadsheets or put them together. Finally, my memory failed when I tried to convert a cost to a sell price.

I was too embarrassed to ask the junior members of my team or my reporting line; I was afraid they would think I was incompetent. I called Deepak in a panic. I knew he would help me.

“How do I convert a cost to a sell price?” I asked him. “I don’t remember the formula.”

He gently walked me through it, and then we hung up and I got back to work.

I felt so alone and confused, but I didn’t want to fail. I’d been through so much. I knew this was nothing—that I just had to fight to get through this, allow my brain to relearn things . . . at its own pace.

I made notes and began a file I could refer to going forward. I knew I’d be forgetting plenty of things in the future.

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