Brainlessness, installment #821

I am losing immediate recall of nouns - most frequently the objects of my sentences, but sometimes the subjects, too. It came on rather suddenly after pregnancy and childbirth, but it is becoming more pronounced lately. In one sense it is rather disturbing (I wonder whether my particular changes are a harbinger of dementia), but mostly it is just plain annoying.

My deficit manifests itself most commonly when I am trying to give direction to my children. For example:

"Can you put the Lego away in your..."

"Your teddy is on the ..."

"Put your towel in the ..."

"Can you please tidy up your ... into the toybox"

It's mostly nouns. I don't have any problem at all with verbs and other assorted grammatical features. Just nouns, and most commonly the nouns at the end of sentences (which in English is most commonly object, not subject).

Typing seems to have no major problems. It's just the gap between thinking and vocalising that seems to have developed a chasm. Back to my neuropsych textbooks, I think!