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Hello Wednesday
1) I have a date for my surgery: Friday, October 5. Sadly, my plans to get my family to give me an iPad as a recovery gift have fallen through, since the recovery is only expected to be a few short days. But! Imagine a life without my right hand constantly being numb and in pain (okay, you don't have to imagine it, but I will)! It will be glorious, iPad or no!
2) Today I almost drove off the road on the way to work, not due to numbness in my hand, but due to the bizarre spectacle of a woman on the side of the road, in flesh-colored leggings, a red v-neck shirt that was cut extremely low, with like, black fluttery sleeves attached to it, and a giant fur hat on her head. The giant fur hat had these long side flaps that came down and wrapped around her neck, and it basically looked like a howler monkey was sitting on her head and trying to strangle her. It almost beats a goose in a sack for odd things I have seen on my way to work. If only it were an actual howler monkey.
3) I am SO DONE with having my period. Unfortunately, my period is not so done with me. SIGH. I have been having extremely heavy and painful periods for the last several months - yesterday I had to leave work in the middle of the day to go home and shower and change clothes. This is the third month in a row I have had to do this. Embarrassing. I feel like leaving a pool of blood on a chair is indicative that something is NOT RIGHT. Also, I am running out of dark bottoms to wear. :( I have an appointment with my gynecologist next week, but I am not sure there are many options open to me here. Too old for birth control, too young for menopause. :(
4) I am still pondering Yuletide! This puts me behind the times, I bet. I'm sure everyone else has all their nominations locked in already. I saw that someone was going to nominate The Montmaray Journals but I am still thinking I should nominate it, just to get all the characters in. Other things I want that other people are nominating include Code Name Verity, and the Austin & Murry-O'Keefe Families, Political Animals and Young Avengers.
I kind of want to nominate the Beany Malone/Katie Rose series by Lenora Mattingly Weber, but I fear that I am the only person who has read these and it would be a wasted nomination. Ditto on Norma Johnston's Keeping Days books.
Then there are things I want to see nominated not just for requesting purposes, but because I could write them: The Stand, Northern Exposure, Space: Above and Beyond, Mary Poppins, Buckaroo Banzai, The Melendy Family, Little Women, Tales of the City, and Brideshead Revisited.
Hmm, tiny fandoms of my heart lean heavily to books.
Oh Yuletide, you are causing me agita! What to do, what to do?!
2) Today I almost drove off the road on the way to work, not due to numbness in my hand, but due to the bizarre spectacle of a woman on the side of the road, in flesh-colored leggings, a red v-neck shirt that was cut extremely low, with like, black fluttery sleeves attached to it, and a giant fur hat on her head. The giant fur hat had these long side flaps that came down and wrapped around her neck, and it basically looked like a howler monkey was sitting on her head and trying to strangle her. It almost beats a goose in a sack for odd things I have seen on my way to work. If only it were an actual howler monkey.
3) I am SO DONE with having my period. Unfortunately, my period is not so done with me. SIGH. I have been having extremely heavy and painful periods for the last several months - yesterday I had to leave work in the middle of the day to go home and shower and change clothes. This is the third month in a row I have had to do this. Embarrassing. I feel like leaving a pool of blood on a chair is indicative that something is NOT RIGHT. Also, I am running out of dark bottoms to wear. :( I have an appointment with my gynecologist next week, but I am not sure there are many options open to me here. Too old for birth control, too young for menopause. :(
4) I am still pondering Yuletide! This puts me behind the times, I bet. I'm sure everyone else has all their nominations locked in already. I saw that someone was going to nominate The Montmaray Journals but I am still thinking I should nominate it, just to get all the characters in. Other things I want that other people are nominating include Code Name Verity, and the Austin & Murry-O'Keefe Families, Political Animals and Young Avengers.
I kind of want to nominate the Beany Malone/Katie Rose series by Lenora Mattingly Weber, but I fear that I am the only person who has read these and it would be a wasted nomination. Ditto on Norma Johnston's Keeping Days books.
Then there are things I want to see nominated not just for requesting purposes, but because I could write them: The Stand, Northern Exposure, Space: Above and Beyond, Mary Poppins, Buckaroo Banzai, The Melendy Family, Little Women, Tales of the City, and Brideshead Revisited.
Hmm, tiny fandoms of my heart lean heavily to books.
Oh Yuletide, you are causing me agita! What to do, what to do?!
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Don't worry - there's lots! There's medication (both hormonal and not) to reduce bleeding (which I take), inserts like Mirena, removal of the uterine lining if it's built up too much, and lots of exciting new stuff to help those of us who bleed ridiculous amounts, if left to our own devices.
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His doesn't look like a monkey, though, which is a shame!
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And eventually it let up: I'm back to a more regular schedule now, with some unpredictability and the occasional heavy flow, but nothing like it was. It's also much more closely tied to my cramps: if I feel it in my back, I know that the flow has kicked up again. So, it's likely that it will come to an end.
I can recommend, however, that you carry a pad with you everywhere for a while, just in case.
Good luck: it's yet one more thing they never tell us about perimenopause! People talk about hot flashes and stuff, but not this bullshit, which can go on for years! Argh.