Grumpy Old Woman - The Perils (and otherwise) of Old Git-hood

[dizzojay]

Well, the menopause has kicked in with a vengeance, and is doing it's evil work with gay abandon; I think I've seen more of my Doctor than my husband over the last two months!

My Doctor blithely informed me that it wasn't actually the menopause, but the 'peri'-menopause, that is to say, just the dress rehearsal.  So that's just all kinds of awesome - I'm going through all this unmitigated crap and the main event hasn't even started yet!!!!

So, the dear lady has got me dosing up on iron tablets because a white face and dark rings round your eyes is so not a good look unless you're planning to sit in a chinese forest and eat bamboo until you die, but I suppose at least I might be a good addition to the boys' hunts - I could probably take out a ghost just by looking at it right now.

But it's not all bad.  My doc decided that as my body seems to be making its own rules and not sending me the memo right now, it might be an idea for me to have a bit of an overhaul, and so that was my task this morning, and a thoroughly fascinating discovery was made.

My cholesterol level is 4.1 which is apparently very, very good and comfortably within the healthy range.

Well, bugger me sideways!!!

Never mind the health benefits, I nearly bloody keeled over from the shock of finding out that the cheese-loving, wine-loving, chocolate-obsessed Dizzo has the cholesterol level of a Tibetan monk!

How could I not be in a good mood for the rest of the day?

And here's something else to engender a good mood; just a reminder that being a woman does occasionally have its benefits ...

At least I can drool over these cuties:

Comments

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Menopause/peri-menopause good news - if you get onto HRT your sex drive returns! Woo hoo! Of course, that might be bad news as that might be a symptom that hasn't kicked in yet. On the other hand, we don't all get the same symptoms so....

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm not on the HRT yet, so I still have that to look forward to ... as if J2 slash isn't enough o get you hot under the collar?

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I'm fine now - but I did go through a couple of bad years. Mind you that was before I found SPN so you never know, maybe that was all we need to sort us out! LOL

[kinkthatwinked.livejournal.com]

Of course, doesn't being an older lady mean you have an even deeper appreciation of these fine men than the average girl, because you've had a lifetime to compare and contrast the finer points of male sex appeal? And you have a backlog of filthy fantasies because you've been enhancing the details in your matured mind for decades.

There's an upside to everything. :)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Ah, right on both counts. It's just unfortunate you have the body going haywire bit to go with it!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Silver linings hun, that just means you have a greater appreciation and a more discerning eye for the extreme hotness that is Jensen and Jared ;)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Extreme is the word!
As if I need any more hot flushes at the moment ;)

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

What a way to burn up though hun ;)

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

It's a bit different, because I had surgery and not menopause (yet), but I honestly can't over-express the joys of no longer having a period. There's definitely an upside. <3

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Oh, I long for that day!

[sasha-dragon.livejournal.com]

*Pats you on the shoulder* Look on the bright side you're only as old as the hottie you feel! On the other bright side your cholesterol level is pretty good.

Anyway you're not getting old, you're just maturing nicely like a fine wine. Full bodied and fruity if these pictures are anything to go by *G*

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I can live with being full-bodied and fruity< especially where the J's are concerned, anyway!

[sasha-dragon.livejournal.com]

Can't we all!

[metallidean-grl.livejournal.com]

As much as I hear about the not-so-wonderfulness to experience the change, I am actually wanting it so much because anything is better than the crap I go through each month. Right now I have been living through 2 weeks of PMS symptoms and I am still at least a week away from my actual period. This is such crap. I really do hate this every month. And I never had the blessing of actually having a child, so why in the world do I have to continue suffering for something that I never was able to participate in. Total suckage if you ask me. Good luck in managing through this phase of your life. At least you do have some mileage to more appreciate the finer things in life.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I totally sympathise - if it's not one aspect of the whole 'plumbing' situation, it's another. :(
I'd definitely come back as a man if I got a chance again!