Hey, at least we're all alive. My not-quite 8 year old daughter was in the car, too. Tightly strapped in the extra fancy, hard to find and very expensive booster seat I hunted down for her because she's very petite and slender. All she got was a broken arm way up high just below the shoulder, and a scrape on her cheek, probably from the headrest/guard of her booster seat. We got hit head on by an oncoming minivan who lost control (we were in a station wagon), then slammed sideways into the guardrail, then the van spun off and slammed the side of the car 1/2" behind the door where my daughter was sitting and then spun off another 30 or so feet down the road. My son, recently turned 12, was not in the car, oh so thankfully, he would have been behind me, no longer in a booster, no airbags, he would probably be dead.

Anyone who is not keeping their kids, any kid below the recommended 57" and 80 pounds, in a booster seat of some kind, GO GET ONE NOW!!! And use it properly. Every time. Just because the law doesn't require it to this size, doesn't mean your kid is safe. And do not, ever, put a kid who has not reached adult size, in the front seat. I'm a tall, 5'8" woman, tightly and properly seat-belted, and look what happened to me. Five miles from home on a quick pick-up from dance lessons trip. Through absolutely no fault of our own.

(Done with the soapbox now. But please, please take your child's safety seriously!)

The other night I was joking around with my girlfriend about my mental prowess and said, "I have a bear-trap mind!" Even as I said it, something didn't seem right about that expression, and a minute later, I said, "steel-trap! I have a steel-trap mind!"

I usually say something similar to what I mean. For example, I might say, "Can you bring me my feet?" instead of "Can you bring me my shoes?"

They're amusing little moments to lighten the day.

And, I disagree that slowing down will make a difference. If I am asked to repeat myself, it still comes out the same. If I try to figure out what I said that's wrong, I usually can't until someone points it out.

along with mixing up words and parts of words, I'm still getting the blanks on things, and I feel this kind of confusion in my head, because at the time I don't know what it is that I know I want to talk about, if that makes any sense. The other day I wanted to say something about something that involved the front walkway (which is brick, runs alonjg the front of the house after you go down the three steps of our wooden porch), and I ended up vaguely waving my hand in the direction of the front window and saying something like "...out .... out...... there..... the wood.... the steps, wood .... that... there, out..." and I knew there was something out there I needed to name, but I had no idea, like I couldn't even picture the thing. I'm just lost. Fortunately it isn't happening this bad very much, but it is so freaky when it does.

Finally had a doppler ultrasound of carotids/vertebrals last week, don't know results yet, but they did it with me laying flat and my bad arm down at my side, still. The only time I ever lay flat, for the last 20 months, is to be tested in some way or other. So who knows if there was anything to see.

I can not seem to be able to feel fun or funny about this. I am sick of feeling like an idiot.

JoeT,

I saw no humor in it for a long time. It was just a reminder of how bad I was.

Please don't allow yourself to be frustrated over the fact that you don't see it as amusing! That's ok!

And... you're NOT an idiot!! Your brain is just a little under the weather.

The folks on this forum know and understand!!

Hope everyone is feeling better...
I mix up words a lot, but U think I always have...
window and mirror for instance...
Now it's words like oil and onion, they both begin with "O" so makes sense to me...
I laugh a lot, my kids laugh at me in a good-natured way...

Last night I put some clothes in the tumble drier and then my husband (who has pcs) asked me "what have you got in the dish washer?"