Lost the word "provisional" in a meeting today. Just... gone. Sat there smiling like I hadn't been using that word for twenty years while my brain frantically searched the filing cabinet and found absolutely nothing. My colleague filled it in for me and I wanted to disappear under the table. I'm 51 and I've always been the one people come to when they need something explained clearly. That's been my whole thing at work. And lately I'm stumbling mid-sentence, reading the same email three times, leaving meetings with no memory of what was agreed. I don't know if this is peri or just burnout or both at the same time having a party. But I've started going to bed at a fixed time no matter what, even if I lie there staring at the ceiling for a bit, because the days when I've had genuinely broken sleep are the days my brain is completely offline by 2pm. That much I've noticed. Also trying to eat something with actual protein in the afternoon rather than biscuits. Today it was a boiled egg and some oatcakes from my desk drawer. Felt slightly less desperate by 4 o'clock so maybe something in that. I'm seeing my GP next month and I want to describe this properly, not just say "I'm a bit forgetful" which sounds nothing. I've been jotting down actual examples. Today's will be going in. Does anyone else do this? x