If you want to talk about your menopausal symptoms, your women-friends will just try to out-symptom you. The biggest problem is that we women are competitive creatures. Who, if you must know, leave a lot to be desired lately. Others, like me, occasionally try to find comfort by discussing these very personal issues with trusted women friends. Some even embrace and try to celebrate this phase, which can include insomnia, memory loss, night sweats, fatigue, and memory loss (ha!). Of course, many women in my situation try to learn as much as they can about this stage of life. Kidding! I meant three to four times an hour. There’s a huge difference between perimenopause and menopause chiefly, during perimenopause you only think about killing your husband three to four times a day. “Peri,” some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning “SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN’ PIE HOLE.” Right now, since you ask, I’m what is known as perimenopausal. Excerpted from You Don’t Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool, St.
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