very bad dream
Monday, January 6th, 2003
I wake up with a start, and shake Jeremy. “What’s the date?”
He blinks.
“What month is it? What month is it?”
“It’s January,” he says.
“Oh, God,” I say, dissolving into tears. “Oh God oh God oh God.”
I’d dreamed that I’d lost my short-term memory. It was November, and I’d missed the first year of Claire’s life. Worse, I realized as Jeremy wearily explained things in my dream, the condition was incurable. I was going to forget again, and he was going to have to explain again, and again and again and again.
