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Article: Some hot flashes on hot flashes
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- May 30, 2008
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I'm two weeks late, which for all my years as a fertile adult
woman has never elicited anything but two emotions: joy in the
miracle of life and terror in the same.
Now suddenly, at this stage of my life, as my hair turns to straw
and my curvy Bonzai waistline threatens to become straight-as-a-
board beech, those words mean something altogether different:
menopause. Time to become familiar with the protocol for hot
flashes.
Let me propose, first of all, that, unlike the billowing pregnant
belly, hot flashes are not cute to the outside world.
No matter how adorably interesting you think you look fanning
your menopausal self in the frozen food section at the grocery
store, nobody really wants ...