You Have A Friend In Me

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This husband of mine…

Made an observation…while standing near his seated wife…I hate to say it…but he says it anyway…it looks like your hair…is getting a little thin on top…of course it is…why wouldn’t it be…throw that in…with all the other maladies rearing their ugly heads recently…

Actually saw a doctor…trying to make sense of some things…kind of taken aback…by what was heard…used words like…atrophy…shrinkage…drying up…like what….since when is this a thing…and why…did this old gal…not know it was coming…thought she’d survived that big female midlife deal with grace…

Learned to live with the hotflashes…tolerate the intolerance to heat…accepted the belly blob…but now…we throw in fatigue…brain fog…irritability…joint pain…and apparently…can’t even say it…withering…

All because…that estrogen…like one of those cats in those vintage posters…has decided…after ten years…it can no longer…hang in there…it’s not the end of the world…of course…research has begun for solutions…it’s amazing how many down there experts there are…on tik tok…

And for those of you…lucky enough to avoid the estrogen drop…kudos to you…for those of you…suffering in silence…because it’s one of those things we never talk about…

You…have a friend…in me…
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And I’m sure…someone out there…agrees…