What can I say? Life got busy, and I got out of the mood to blog.
And {drum roll} I FINALLY am having hot flashes! I don't WANT to have hot flashes, you understand. But I DID want to finally get properly into menopause, and it looks like that's where I'm going. They aren't horrible, but they aren't fine, either. I am already a person who does not do well with heat. I'm the person who is in shorts and a t-shirt in 40 and 50 degree weather. But I know it could be worse. My son's mother-in-law has been having really, really bad hot flashes for a year and a half now -- the kind of hot flashes that have sweat pouring off of her in buckets. When Thomas was undergoing his treatment and radiation for his prostate cancer, he had horrible hot flashes like that where sweat was pouring off him. And he is the person who is in many layers of clothing, coats, and hats when it is 70 degrees outside. He is so sympathetic to me right now lol.
A few days ago I had to gown up to screen a baby in semi-isolation, and I had a hot flash while I was doing the screen. When I came out of the room and took off the gown and gloves, they PEELED off me, and it was the first time that my clothing was actually sticking to me! I thought I was going to have to change scrubs.
8 comments:
just imagine yourself on a nice tropical beach somewhere exotic on vacation. maybe it'll help.
I really disliked those hot flashes, especially when I was in the classroom. They happened rarely. I had a brief issue with night sweats which were nasty too. It was an uncontrollable and uncomfortable kind of sweating. Hope you don't suffer too much in menopause. I had a relatively easy time compared to many women I know.
I didn’t mind the hot flashes as much as the mood changes I got in the early stages of menopause.
Stopping y to say I'm trying this blogging thing again lol
Sorry about your hot flashes
John
its so good to see people blogging still/ I plan to get mine up and running. Life in Johns world,Im looking for a blog I use to read. The title slips my mind at the moment. Written from a daughter whos Dad had Alzheimer and shed go visit him in the nursing home.She was a great blogger would you ny chance know of the blog I am referring too?
Sincerely,
John
sorry you have to go through those hot flashes, love your blog though
I've gotten very far behind in my blogging too, in favor of Facebook, but no matter where I go the menopausal blues follow me lol. Hot flashes? More like a 5-alarm fire in my body and there's no putting it out! xx
stopping by to sat hello
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