Baby heads, texting, and water balloons.

Research papers should not be started at 8pm. As I was frivolously reading about the various types of infant hereditary and congenital diseases I started freaking about the 4% of children who end up with these conditions. That’s such a small number and yet, the odds of my hypothetical future child having one or more of the names on a list freaked me out and I was frantically texting Jordan (the sane person in my life) about how I was never having children because of this tiny little statistic. I was over reacting, and sort of stalling.

Texting delays research, which delays writing, which delays sleep.  I’m a pro at multi tasking.

Rationality goes out the window at 1am. I was also texting my friend AJ from camp. Camp is the highlight of my summer. I’m a sports leader. In sports we play a lot of water games, because what 8-11 year old doesn’t like getting soaked with hoses and pegged with water balloons. A baby with hydrocephalus has an enlarged skull. Their head fills with fluid, especially around the soft spot of the skull. The skin stretches out and becomes transparent, like a water balloon. What is this, filling up a baby head with fluid until it pops, disease? No more peanut butter cups before bed.