Monday, January 26, 2009

So, She Doesn't Have Hot Flashes!!

Friday evening I was at my hairdressers and the temperature in the salon was very comfortable. We started lamenting about getting older and how "hot" we were in our thirties. We got on to the subject of menopause and she said she was in her early 50's and no sign of hot flashes. "Good for you", I said, "mine were miserable for at least five years". About ten minutes later she went rushing to the front door and flung it open letting in a freezing cold draught of artic air. As she proceeded to wedge the door open I commented on the cold air. "Oh no, she said, it's boiling hot in here."

Doesn't have hot flashes - not much. 

Can't quite decide if she was in denial, or really wasn't sure what a hot flash is. I just remember everyone in my office complaining bitterly every time I turned the thermostat to zero. As they sat there shivering I was like, "It's not cold in here, put a sweater on or something!"

Pay back's a bitch!