51 and I lost the word 'provisional' in a meeting today. Just... gone. I could see the concept, I knew what I meant, I even gestured vaguely at the air like that would help, and my colleague finished my sentence for me with this very kind look on her face that was somehow worse than if she'd laughed. I've been a project manager for nearly fifteen years. Words are basically my whole job. I don't know if this is peri or burnout or just... me now? But it's getting harder to pretend it's nothing. I came home and wrote down three specific moments from this week where my brain just dropped something mid-sentence or mid-thought. I'm going to take that list to my GP because I can't just say 'I feel a bit foggy' and expect to be taken seriously. I need actual examples. The only thing I've noticed that seems to help slightly is not skipping lunch. I've been grabbing something with a bit of protein in the afternoon when I feel that 3pm slump coming, and the worst crashes are less frequent. Could be coincidence. But I'm sleeping more deliberately too, actually going to bed before midnight instead of doom-scrolling until 1am, and the mornings feel fractionally less awful. Small things. I'm not fixed. But I wanted to write it down somewhere that people might actually understand what I mean. x