When I was a kid I remember being extremely confused about many things in life.
I didn’t have very open or communicative parents, so I had to figure a lot of things out on my own.
They weren’t big proponents of preparing us for the world with sage advice or talking to us about what was going on in their lives. Instead, we children had to fend for ourselves and try to learn about the adult world through experience. One of the things that was extremely confusing to me, was why my mother and aunts were always talking about having random heat flashes. I didn’t experience similar internal temperature spikes, so I wasn’t sure why their bodies were so unevenly hot and cold all the time. It was an ongoing conversation throughout much of my childhood, and I never could figure out why we didn’t invest in a better central heating and cooling system if temperature was such a big problem. Then, one year, my grandma happily announced that she had installed is uncontrolled cooling at her house so that the adult table would be many degrees cooler than the other areas. Finally, someone was doing something about there low Quality heating and cooling system. When Thanksgiving rolls around and we were all seated at our respective tables, I couldn’t help but wonder over to the adult side for just a minute. Sure enough, it was impressively cool and fresh near their table, and my aunts looked more comfortable than usual. I complimented my grandma and finally taking care of her house’s random heat flashes, and the entire table burst out laughing. That’s the day that I learned about menopause.
