Let’s do this together

Apparently, September is menopause auseuse awareness month. My daughter would say every month with an R in it (for rage) is menopause month.

I’m now 51 years old and at some point in the last five years, my naturally short fuse turned fullon, head-spinning cray-cray, especially when there was a perfect storm of rude child and hot flush.

So I went to my GP and told her: “Either you give me something to stop me being so angry, or you give my daughter something to stop her being grumpy.

“And seeing as nobody has yet invented a cure for teenagers, hit me up, lady.”

It’s taken lashings of HRT gel and counting to 10 like a toddler to stop my nuclear meltdowns every time The Dark Lord totally ignores even the most basic instructions.

The gym helps too, and so far I haven’t had too many of the other 34 menopausal symptoms such as growing sideburns.

Yeah, I know there’s women who get through it with meditation and yak hair capsules, but I didn’t do natural birthing and waving a dreamcatcher around either.

My attitude back then was – let’s just get out the other side with a healthy child and intact giggly bits. And that still stands today.

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