Me: babe, can you hand me the....
Jerad: the what?
Me: the... the... *snaps fingers*
Jerad: water?
Me: No! those things... (motions with hands) you cut stuff with them???
Jerad: oh... these are called scissors...
Me: ...
Yesterday:
Me: Julie, Davis is on line 1 for you.
Julie: Who?
Me: Um, DAVIS... your husband...
Julie: David?
Me: er, ya, thats what I said... After 2 years I think I know his name!
Today:
Me: Hi, this is Stephanie Brown, I was just calling to confirm that... you received... the, er....
Receptionist: Yes?
Me: I sent you an...
Receptionist:...
Me: Ah! A piece of paper? With a photocopy on it?
Receptionist: You dropped it off? Mailed it?
Me: no no no... through that machine... that er.... scans and prints it and makes a little "beep beep..." you key in a phone number?!?
Receptionist: Oh you sent us a fax?
Me: YES! yeay! YES I SENT A FAX!!!!!
Language problems seen with anti-migraine drug
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Migraine patients taking topiramate, a drug used to stave off the debilitating headaches, may experience disturbances in language, according to a recent report.
Thinking difficulties have been reported in patients taking topiramate, the authors explain, but they have never been defined and assessed with the aid of standardized tests.
Dr. Francesca Coppola from the University of Perugia, Italy and associates investigated the occurrence of language disturbances in 30 migraine patients treated with topiramate, sold under the trade name Topamax, compared with patients treated with other drugs or untreated patients.
Eight patients in the topiramate group experienced language problems compared with none of the patients in the other groups.
Language disturbances generally occurred within the first month of treatment, were of mild severity, and did not require further adjustment of dosages or discontinuation of topiramate.
The disturbances included difficulty finding words, slowing of verbal expression, changes of one word with another with the same meaning, need to search for the right word, production of nonexistent words deriving from the fusion of two words, or occasional difficulty in naming objects.
The presence of anxiety or depression worsened performance on some of the tests, the report indicates.
In light of these findings, the researchers call for further studies comparing topiramate with similar drugs.
SOURCE: Headache, January 2008.
2 comments:
hmmmmm....
Haha a few nights ago I pretended like I forgot who Jerad was for a few seconds. I thought it was really funny. He laughed but I saw the fear in his eyes for a few seconds. Man I crack myself up.
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