The Pregnancy Stupids

I am sad to say that I have contracted a bad case of Baby Brain, also known as the Pregnancy Stupids. It’s a pretty bad case too. I’m usually a smart, eloquent, elaborative speaker. I enjoy using my vocabulary and feel like communication is kinda my thing. Well my friends, apparently the baby needs those brain cells at the moment because my argot is shrinking rapidly. It seems to be temporary at the moment, but I guess we’ll see.

Example 1 (Mild): Today while I was talking to Jon about the elections, I couldn’t for the life of me remember the word concede. I could describe to him what I was talking about but I had no idea what word I was trying to say! The really bad part is, I was just having a similar conversation with someone else just an hour before and used the word just fine.

Example 2 (Severe): On Friday I was sitting at work in the room with all of my study directors talking about some project we were working on. The person trying to find the file on the computer wasn’t finding it so I thought I’d ask her to pass me the mouse and I could see if I could find it. Well, I asked her to pass me the knife. Seriously, the knife. I know, the words are not even close! They have nothing to do with one another. I wasn’t even thinking about a knife or about cutting anything. I don’t know where the work came from. I didn’t even realize I was using the wrong word until the person holding the mouse looked at me like I was crazy. We all of course had a good laugh over it, but I still can’t figure out what went wrong other than the fact that my disease is progressing.

Let’s hope delivery is the cure to this disease and it’s truly only temporary or Zoey’s in trouble and she’d better have some good teachers in school!