August 2011
Libido has left the
building. I don’t have any interest in having any relationship with a man right
now. I was asked out by a retired fireman and politely declined. The urges I
once had are completely gone. I don’t know if this is residual effects from my
divorce a couple of years ago, or menopausal causes. But, I’m perfectly happy
with how I feel right now.
I don’t know whether it’s
because I was around several women for a couple of hours today, but I came home
with cramps and ceased any hot flashes from my core. Then it came. Auntie Em.
The visit was not as dreaded as in the past. It was mild this time, and I seem
to have developed a quarterly pattern now. No complaints. So if I had one in
January, April, and now August, I should maybe expect a visit in December.
It was proven by the
famous cultural anthropologist, Margaret Meade, that one woman in a group takes
the “lead” for a groups’ menses. In the African tribe that Dr. Meade studied,
she found that they had a “special” hut that all of the women went to stay
during their menses time. She discovered that they all ended up in that hut at
one common point during the month. So maybe I was affected by
one lead woman in the group I sat with today? Typically in the past, I had to
deal with my two daughter’s menses patterns.
Exercise really helps with
both the menses flow and the symptoms of menopause I’ve experienced thus far. I
just need to be more committed to a routine of working out.
I have been thinking about
my own knowledge of the female processes. My own mother and grandmother never
spoke of such things. I once asked my mother about her hysterectomy. Apparently
she’d had endometriosis, and in the 1950’s, surgery was the cure her doctor
chose. She was in her mid-thirties at the time and was always taking hormonal
therapies. I don’t recall exactly what it was that she was taking, but I think
it was estrogen. I wish she were still here so I could ask her more details of
her experiences with early menopause.
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