scat-ter-brain
n.
A person regarded as flighty, thoughtless, or disorganized.
According to ex-pregnant women and pregnancy books, an expecting mother may suffer from the Scatterbrain syndrome. Being a forgetful person even before I got pregnant, I was very worried about experiencing this.
At the start of the pregnancy, Ramil would tease me about having the scatterbrain syndrome whenever I forget something. I would, of course, deny this vehemently. For the past few weeks however, I couldn’t give a very strong protest everytime he would tease me. Some evidences of the said syndrome:
- I would forget where I put things
- I would forget things that I myself have scheduled to do
- I would forget meetings that I set
- lately, while discussing in front of my students, I would pause to get my thoughts in order because I’ve forgotten what I was saying a few moments ago
- increasing frequencies of this: “Ny…, ay nevermind, I forgot my question.”
- there was this time when a minute after saying our prayer before a meal, I turned to him and asked him, “Nagpray na ba tayo?”
- the final straw would be losing Ramil’s cellphone. I forgot that the phone was inside my pants’ pocket and it seemed that it fell out without me noticing it
Compared to other pregnancy-induced discomforts, I would say that this would be the least debilitating. However, I’ve been messing my work, losing things, and looking like a completely incompetent idiot. Unfortunately, no remedy for this one except to maybe keep a little notebook to write things down (which I always forget to do). It would be so great if I could just have a little device which would record all thoughts that goes on inside my head. Or maybe… er, I think I’ve forgotten my next brilliant idea.
Funny Andrea. You’re still lucky. Don’t worry babalik din yan! Take care of yourself sister.
or do it memento-style: polaroid notes — or tattoos!