New Post for Wifey

[The Wifey]

Well, guys. The word menopause mean anything to you? My OBGYN had said I was peri-menopausal. The doctor had put me on Welbutrin because the week before my period has become a nightmare. I take three doses that week and only two the rest of the month.

This month it just wasn't enough. After my mush on Sunday I pretty much didn't stop crying, bad enough that I called my doctor. Normal weeks I am calm, cool and collected, positive, the model of DBing. This was so bad, I thought I was losing what was left of my sanity.

Luckily, though my doctor is on vacation, the nurse practitioner could see me that afternoon. I told her how I'd been and that just thirty minutes before I'd been laying on my bed sobbing. She and my doctor are both well aware of my sitch.

As it turns out, it was a really good thing my doctor was on vacation. : ) By the time I got to the office, had I had to see a male doctor, he probably would have had his shorts pulled up and over his ears!

Nurse practitioner confirmed it sounded like menopause. She'd had a similar problem, although she became witchy. I told her how I could feel it coming on, but it was like a hole was opening up under me and I couldn't stop it. Then once I was in the hole I usually stayed there until the start of my flow.

I now have a fast-acting script for anxiety. The first time I took it I was so sleepy, so if I need it again, which hopefully shouldn't be for about four more weeks, I think I will take half.

Maybe Michelle needs to add another chapter to DR, about menopause. Yikes. I was scared. I did not like feeling like that. And yeah, after such a wonderful weekend, the good memories are a bit tarnished by the ending - not good DBing, but something I couldn't control. That loss of control was what was scary.

H must understand a little, he asked me to meet for dinner tonight. I am just wiped out. Tired to the bone after the last couple of days.

He leaves tomorrow to go to the wedding of one of his former student employees. She gets married on Saturday two states away. He plans to take the motorcycle if the weather will cooperate. I just hope he is safe the whole time. I worry when he goes any distance on that thing.

I have family coming in from out of state. My nephew, his fiance and their little baby boy from Key West, FL and my sister, BIL, and niece and nephew from North Carolina. We have a big family picnic on Saturday and I also have to go see my son in a bmx bike show Saturday evening. Should keep me plenty busy.