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Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain

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589 points gmays | 3 comments | 31 Oct 25 13:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.656s | source
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cdelsolar ◴[31 Oct 25 14:05 UTC] No.45772111[source]▶
I slept around 5 hours last night split up into two periods because my baby daughter woke up crying from fever and wanted to play / was hallucinating / etc. She's totally fine now but I am wondering if there is a correlation between dementia and having kids.
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1. arethuza ◴[31 Oct 25 14:12 UTC] No.45772191[source]▶
I remember this quote from when we had young kids:

"Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children."

And then as soon as they are in their 20s and reasonably self sufficient we had to get a puppy to keep me sane!

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2. spockz ◴[31 Oct 25 14:15 UTC] No.45772226[source]▶
Long days and short years.

Did you have empty nest syndrome?

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3. arethuza ◴[31 Oct 25 14:31 UTC] No.45772368[source]▶
More like empty head syndrome - but getting a dog was the best thing I've done in years.