Click on her name for an interesting article on the menopause by Louise Foxcroft
Maud's Ethic
is to survive the menopause. Maud likes to live peacefully in the present, and aims to return to living calmly and rationally all the time. However there seems to be only one week in the month when she can be a sane, rational and productive semi-human being. This is due to the MENOPAUSE. However she does believe that she can turn her unmanicured little hand to anything and overcome all obstacles. And so she does, with varying results.
Keeping active during that one week of happy, cheerful rationality involves many diverse and interesting activities. From professional pondering, designing oracle cards, painting, sweet music making, web design, and even managing to write the occasional press release, Maud is always open to offers of paid work and stuff to alleviate her hormonal imbalances. This is the way her home remains pretty much intact during the three foul and destructive weeks of total hormone imbalance, violent mood swings, tears, tampons and panic attacks.
Newsflash - as of 25/8/09 there have been no mood swings for 3 months now - THERE IS LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL!!! Could normality be about to return - what is normality? Watch this space...
are many and varied, they sneak up on you unawares, often in the dark of night as you wake suddenly drenched in sweat, suffering palpitations and with an overwhelming sense of unease. You become tense and one has to admit - even irritable, much to the astonishment of your nearest and dearest! Simple things reduce you to tears such as a supposedly feel-good item on the television, the news, an innocent advertisement or even a neighbour saying "hello".
If not reduced to tears you can become extremely angry at the same things. How dare that person have such a cute puppy, how dare my neighbours talk to me? Who has the right to show these things on television? Maud threw away her television at the onset of her menopause 12 years ago, and yes it was one of those inexplicable rage things, but she has never dared replace it as she knows the same thing would only happen again. Yes ladies - it can go on, and on, and on...
YOU CAN'T - sorry but that's the truth. You have to live with it. Maud has conducted extensive research via friends and friends of friends through virtually every product on the market, and the answer seems to be that nothing works. (We welcome any remedies and free samples to test, please contact maud@menopausal-maud.co.uk but dont expect a good write-up unless your product is infallible. We will write as we feel on the day after the test is completed, and if it's the wrong time of the month with no result...well, we'll try to keep the review short as least said, soonest mended).
