One woman's journal through the madness
Sunday 21 July 2019. Day 190: ‘I currently want to stab my husband in the head!’. Just one of the recent comments I’ve seen on a social media menopause forum. The menopause impostor makes the sweetest of us turn into creatures we don’t recognise and the slightest wrong action or clumsy comment from our nearest…
Wednesday 8 May 2019. Day 117: So I seem to be a part of the modern social media phenomenon and I got dumped by Instagram. Not the actual social media site, but by my partner of 7 years. Call me old fashioned, but an actual conversation would have been the decent move. So who do…
Tuesday 16 April 2019. Day 95: As my 50th birthday is only weeks away, I cannot avoid looking back at my life so far. Family and friends know that I have spoken and written a lot about my life as a young single mum. Experiencing motherhood for the first time, aged 19, having been abandoned…
Wednesday 20 March 2019. Day 68: When I was young (to my mum, I still am) being 50 was one step away from the retirement home. In 50 days time, I will be 50 years old. As this new decade approaches, I can’t help looking back at previous significant birthdays and remembering where I was…
Monday 3 March 2019. Day 51: Since becoming aware three months ago that I am in the menopause stage of my life, I decided to start writing this journal in the hope that writing my thoughts and feelings would help me cope with this mid-life transition and to hopefully connect with other meno women. What…
Thursday 28 February 2019. Day 48: It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote a journal entry. Two reasons; Firstly, I only want to write about things that bother, excite or concern me; Secondly, I can’t be bothered or get excited about anything at the moment. I guess out of my list of…
Monday 11 February 2019. Day 31: In 1985, only the smart kids at my school did A-levels. I didn’t fit into that category, so it was either find a job or go to college. I chose college and enrolled in a two-year hairdressing course. I had the best two years of my education (I’d hated…
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Friday 8 February 2019. Day 28: I never needed much sleep; not as a baby, child or teenager. It would always take me an age to drift off, but once I was soundly in the land of nod, I usually stayed there until early morning, where I would wake feeling refreshed – definitely a lark.…
Thursday 24 January 2019. Day 12: I read an interesting blog today via Instagram written by a young woman who was a single parent (not by choice – the baby’s father quit when the baby was a month old). Her child is a toddler and she talked about how she had to move back home…
Sunday 20 January 2019. Day 8: Two months into the impending redundancy of my ovaries, the main offending symptom thus far is the internal central heating malfunction. During winter, I am always cold (actually, spring and autumn are too much on the cool side for my liking). My log burner can be glowing with its…
