Monday, November 16, 2009

The BIG M

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That picture up above says it all for me when it comes to hot flashes.....a bunch of menopausal women stampeding for the chilly waters to cool off their burning brows.  Thankfully, I'm in the final chapter of this event that only humans of a feminine nature are unfortunately blessed cursed with.  Speaking of curses.....haven't us gals gotten the short end of the stick in that department.....periods, birthing, shaving legs and pits, plucking, and the list goes on!  Who decided that the fairer sex would have to pay until the end of time for man's sins???  Sucks doesn't it!  Anywho.....I digress.....for the longest time I was the ONLY one of my gal pals going through the BIG M.....in fact, I took on the role of poster child for menopause.  Being the first of my friends to tap dance with the BIG M.....I felt like I now was officially a senior citizen.....that my friends were now all of a younger generation than myself.....that everything I did from that point on in my life wouldn't be earning a jewel in my crown, but earning another gray hair for all the crap that crosses my path.  I went from 'one of the gals' to 'that ol' gal'.  Today I'm starting to feel like my old self again for the first time in 2 years......the hot flashes are down to one a day.....my bitchiness is starting to mellow out (I love you honey).....I don't have to shave my legs as frequently (now that's an upside when you got legs that go all the way up and make a total ass of themselves).....my energy is FINALLY starting to come back.....and I don't have to keep Playtex afloat (no pun intended) ever again!  Now it's my dear friends turn to go through THE CHANGE.....and now I'm no longer the only member of the daily fluster cluck!

So ladies.....menopause is like an annoying acquaintance that won't go away.....with patience and a lot of floor fans.....this acquaintance enemy will go away.....and life as you once knew it will be waiting at the end of that hot tunnel for you to embrace it once again.  I promise!!!

Have a Melodically Mellow Monday


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  1. LOL OMG Anne...I can relate. I went through menopause at the age of 31 due to a COMPLETE hysterectomy . NO one and I mean no one told me..Wham Bam Thank You Ma'm that I would be so thrust into it . I was on HRT for about 19 years and let me tell ya..mood swings...if I forgot the Ogen, I was a weeping wreck and or Cruella DeVille by 11 am. I got used to the hot flashes and now call them power surges. Menopause will not stop them,,,they will decrease... or at least they have for me. so SU jut knows when the back of my neck and hair are sopping, and I have that look on my face that says to one and all...." Shiney..." ..get me to a/c stat. As for legs..still waiting on that one . The dr's decreased the HRT over time so that by the time I hit 50 , I'd be weaned off them.

    Six years ago when my father died, I decided to just stop taking them..I was crazy anyway over the loss and thought WTH. Took SU 6 months to figure it out.

    The only part of all of this that bothers me is that most women other than you and me, ( because we are Goddesses after all ) ...we don't really talk about menopause. To me it's just a phase of our lives that is a right of passage and as such deserves to be celebrated.

    Sorry to be sooooo verbose.

    Hugs

    Aunty P
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