Pregnancy amnesia!!!!

It's been awhile since I have posted. I have a lot to write about, but just going to write about one thing today...

About three weeks ago, I took off work half of a day to go do my glucose test. If you don't know about this already, you do this b/w 24 and 28 weeks. They give you instructions on what to eat for breakfast--no sugar--I had bacon, eggs and toast. then I drank this special orange drink they gave me about an hour later. You have to down it all in 2 minutes. THEN you have to have your blood drawn exactly an hour later (but be there 45 min later). Everything was going well..I had the drink (thankfully it didn't make me sick, but it wasn't the best!) and I had a 40 minute drive to the hospital. WELL, on the way there, I saw this car with bars separating the front seat and back seat and thought it looked...um, ghetto. ...so I got closer to look at it...when I decided to go around this car, I saw that lights magically appeared on the car and realized it was a police officer!!! (well, duh Amy!) I looked ahead to see who he was pulling over and there was no one in front of us... he pulled behind me and I had no idea why he was pulling me over. (right away I remembered that I got pulled over 2 weeks before for following someone too close and then I hadn't had my insurance card because I accidently threw it away a few days before.--luckily THAT police didn't ticket me, just a warning). I hadn't received my new insurance card in the mail since the last time I got pulled over and knew I didn't have my card this time either. Then I opened my wallet to get my driver's license and that was gone too!!! All I could think was CRAP...I need to have my blood draw in 5 minutes and I am going to get a ticket AND get thrown in jail and I'm PREGNANT!!! The police man came up to my window and asked for my "stuff" and I was hysterically crying flipping through my wallet. I told him that I ALWAYS have my driver's license, but I think I left it at my last doctor's appt..but at the same time I was trying to explain what happened to my insurance card...and try to explain that I had to be at the doctor for a timed test within the next few minutes. He had NO sympathy for me and looked at me like I was a crazy person. it was pitiful. I couldn't make sense talking. so, I ticket for "following too close". He thankfully didn't ticket me for the other things. After the ticket I had to drive to the hospital and realized I left my paperwork at home (AMNESIA AGAIN!). Time was TICKING! I had to go to a different office and take care of that and then finally checked the time and I was 12 minutes past the hour. LUCKILY they told me there was a 15 minute window. WHEW! I did NOT want to have to go through drinking that nasty stuff again!!! By the time I got back to the school, everyone seems to have already found out about the ticket and me not having my license and insurance card. I felt like an idiot.

This is not the only time while pregnant that I have had amnesia or have been extremely clumsy. The poor kids in my class have had to remind of where I put things and I have spilled my water nearly everyday. I keep thinking that I am not myself at all!! The childbirth instructor last Saturday told us that pregnancy amnesia is true because you actually are not getting enough oxygen to the brain. SO I can blame my craziness on that.