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Yep, I can see that last line on a magnet on the wall of my cubicl.....love it! I never had any of the mood swing stuff.....but I had 10 yrs of "vascular instability" that I came out of general anesthesia with after my by-pass and went right through menopause with. Only a miracle kept me from throwing a desk chair through a window at work on several occasions! I had strong visuals of myself picking up an ergonomically correct desk chair like some kind of Wonder Woman and slinging it through the huge commercial glass full-story sized window.....anything TO GET SOME AIR IN THE PLACE!!!!!
posted by
Krisles
on November 30, 2014 at 11:39 PM
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Good job. Well done.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 30, 2014 at 7:43 PM
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Your last sentence says it all. What women go through so often is enough to make us crazy. I did not have those swings; however, I am still having hot flashes thirty years after going through menopause. 
posted by
Justi
on November 30, 2014 at 5:59 PM
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My next Novello says just that...." It takes great courage to be a woman!"
I was lucky through menopause...just the terrible hot flushes but the years of being a cycled Witch were over and I was happy....then the cancer came along to let me know that I was getting off too easy but It was OK. The black hole was gone....the one I had always wished I could fall into. Flushes and cancer were a breeze after that.
posted by
Kabu
on November 30, 2014 at 4:33 PM
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Oh, yes, it can be very tough to be a woman.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 30, 2014 at 3:58 PM
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PatB
Seems to me women's lot has always been an unfair situation from the beginning. How come God never made them 'with two fists of iron and
da da da da.
posted by
WileyJohn
on November 30, 2014 at 1:08 PM
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Wow. It seems menopause can really wreak havoc. Other's stories would make me wonder - I couldn't remember ever having experienced such highs and lows during my own. Now I'm thinking though. I was working with the homeless during that time, and blamed my emotional stress on that activity. Thinking now it could have been a mixture of both.
posted by
adnohr
on November 30, 2014 at 8:22 AM
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Pat
That's why men go the pub and to football games...
posted by
Nautikos
on November 30, 2014 at 6:36 AM
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I salute you, especially for that last, so-true line!
posted by
Ciel
on November 30, 2014 at 5:10 AM
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I salute you, especially for that last, so-true line!
posted by
Ciel
on November 30, 2014 at 5:10 AM
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