Ah MS… It pops its head up at odd times. While watching the boob tube at home a zebra came on screen. I wanted to call attention to it but… the word completely fell out of my head. The neurons were firing and trying to penetrate my semantic memory to match the image with the word… Trying and trying, but they just couldn’t seem to dig up the right word. The closest result found was pony. Now I know a pony ain’t a zebra but try as I might, the only word I could find to describe the black and white striped mammel on the screen was pony:
“Hey check out the, the, the pony on the screen!”
“You mean zebra?”
“Yeah yeah! Zebra!!”
The moment I heard Zebra, I knew it was right and it brought back all the other memories and connections I have associated with Zebras. Once the blockage was cleared it all came flooding back.
Well, perhaps not everything. There was a joke I used to tell as a very young lad and the punchline was “Take off, ze bra, baby!”. I can’t remember how the joke started, but that one is likely related to my age instead of MS. It’s also not likely to be terribly PC so perhaps it’s better left alone :p