No Longer a Regular Gig
By Cafe on Jan 2, 2008 in Renee Petro | comments(0)
New York writer Renee Petro has a husband, three kids, a baby guinea pig, and a fridge full of bottled water, Diet Coke, and ice cream! Why? Because as a baby boomer she has discovered that her fertility doesn’t last, but vitality is forever.
I was never the type of gal who got her period and just had business as usual for a few days. Starting at age 12 it was — exclamation point — seven days a month! Why did some women say “I got my friend”? This was no friend. It was the enemy that made me cranky, moody, crampy, pimply, pudgy and hungry for carbs.
So I had 32 years of getting it regular — very regular — each month. Minus two pregnancies and two rounds of breast feeding. And now at 44, it seems strange to say, but I miss the regular visitor. It’s like the uncle who visits on holidays. Sure, he is a little weird but you love his funny sense of waking everyone up from their boring routines.
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