50!

[boxofdelights]

I got flowers, chocolate, a balloon, a phone call from my daughter who is trying to get her visa in order for a trip to Russia, a very nice dinner out with my husband and son.

I wish I could also have some pause in the old meno. (I have decided not to cut-tag for gross. I have heard the argument that I should treat disgust at menses as kindly as I would arachnophobia, and I am sorry, but for my own well-being I need to reject every way I was taught to feel shame at having a female body. No hard feelings toward anyone who decides to stop reading what I write, for any reason.) I don't even understand how this is happening. I'd have thought the uterine lining needed some time to build up before it began shedding again, but I've been bleeding from August 6 to August 29, then September 5 to September 22, then October 6 to 15, and October 20 to who knows. And most of those days have involved chunks and containment vessel failures.

I've been doing this for forty years already. I am so done.

Comments

[amaebi]

Oh, man, I've had only one of those month-long periods, and I do feel for you. Mostly it's just that every period is apocalyptically copious and painful now. The hymn "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood" is a pretty terrible hymn, but I keep intending to learn the first bit just to sing on appropriate occasions.

Ahem.

Happy birthday and many happy returns!

[kalmn]

Dooooo eeeeeet.

[boxofdelights]

Thank you.