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After six years relatively symptom-free, I’m having hot flashes from hello.

Do you remember when you were a little kid and you had a fever, complete with chills and then sweats? How you’d have seven blankets piled on top of you and tucked in by your Mommy, who said she needed to help you “break the fever,” and then you’d wake up an hour later drenched all the way through your I Dream of Jeannie pajamas?

It’s like that, without the fever. But hey, who needs a thermometer when you can bodily experience the temperatures both in the steamy tropics and in the frozen tundra all in the space of ten minutes flat?

I’m not bitter, really. But I’m not happy, either. People, I’ll soon be 53 years old! I’m far too mature to have to be reduced to someone so…immature.

Having the sweats overtake me makes me say crazy things, things I don’t mean. I said a few of those things to my beloved husband this morning. He looked aghast for a moment but then answered me like the saint he is.

“Well, I’m never going to leave you, if that’s what you’re afraid of…”

Afraid? Is he nuts? The only thing I’m afraid of is that he might look at me cross-eyed one more time, putting himself in serious danger.

As soon as I let him know my views about my supposed fears, we had to pile in the car for an appointment. The hot flash had not let up and honestly, I was frantic. When I’m frantic, I…um, say stuff.

So I said a bunch of stuff I didn’t mean, and do you know what he had the NERVE to do? Instead of putting a few conciliatory words out there so that I could say even MORE stuff, he reached up to the car’s dashboard and pointed EVERY SINGLE air conditioning vent at my FACE.

Have you EVER?

Posted by Katy on 08/22/06 at 04:20 PM

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I so like Doug...

:)

Take Care
Michael
Posted by Michael #2 on 08/23/06 at 02:13 PM
"Everybody loves Raymond. Yeah, yeah, yeah." ;)
Posted by Katy on 08/23/06 at 02:23 PM
Amy thinks she's been having hot flashes....I think I am too...but then again it's been 100+ degrees here for 30+ days...I'm having hot "months."

-M
Posted by Michael Main on 08/23/06 at 02:49 PM
Amy will KNOW. Trust me. It's like being in labor. You kinda sorta think maybe you're in labor, but then you KNOW!

Also, if Amy remembers what "transition" is like in labor--there's an element of that out-of-reality weirdness of transition that's included in my hot flashes. SO. MUCH. FUN.
No one should be denied this pleasure.
Posted by Katy on 08/23/06 at 05:08 PM
All I can say is that you're not alone, Katy. Well... to be truthful... that's not all I CAN say, just all I will or should say at this very warm moment in time... :)
Posted by Anne on 08/23/06 at 10:33 PM
i confess that i've been pointing every single air conditioning vent at my face every time i get in the car since we moved just about as far south as you can and still feel like you're on u.s. soil. don't feel bad, katy, i heard it's been pretty hot back in kansas ;)
Posted by lisa on 08/23/06 at 10:37 PM
a smart man knows when to keep quiet...sounds like you got a smart man there.

the photo series on the left is nice. very personable.
Posted by joshua on 08/24/06 at 02:27 AM
Anne--You are a paragon of virtue! I admire your self-control... :)

Lisa--It was brutal here for weeks, but we're getting a bit of a break. "We," but not "I". Ha. How are you guys doing down there? I miss you being my "neighbor"....

Joshua--He is a very wise man. BTW, I read my husband the tribute you wrote to your father on your site. We both loved it! Thanks about the pics. I thought it was time... :)
Posted by Katy on 08/24/06 at 01:14 PM

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