Deterioration

I am getting rather worried.

In the past three days since, I have been noticeably very forgetful, often forgetting what I'd wanted to ask someone just minutes ago or forgetting what I'd already told that someone just minutes ago.

But worse of all, I have become ve-e-e-e-ry slow. Not in my actions, I still can strip that ball away. But it's my processing chip that's malfunctioning. I cannot catch jokes. I cannot understand people. I cannot block all the sarcasm. What's the meaning of a comeback?

Is this the start of the demise? Is this how it really is?

I am thinking of that picture of Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. But no...