Hey y'all!!! Am I really going to completely delete my reddit account now? I think maybe I am! If r/dundermifflin shows up I'm going to be golden.

EDIT: OH LORD I MISSPELLED MY OWN USER NAME WHEN I SIGNED UP!!! That's hilarious and I am totally knitapease now. A whole new woman. LOL!!

I have said my final goodbye to reddit. What a shame. I had the "secret" figured out in finding the actual content over the shitposts/shitreplies. I learned so much there on a multitude of topics. I hate how often I'm checking facebook now. I tried to get into Tik Tok but I allow myself to watch one video about "my neighbor from hell" or "watch this Karen lose her mind" and that's all I get recommended for days, and then I start to feel like the world is a terrible place.

I'll be sticking it out here.

Content warning: creepy crawlies

I had an Incident. Saturday afternoon I went for a hike with two of my friends. One of them insisted I let her spray me with tick repellent. After I got home I sat around for a couple of hours, ate dinner, relaxed, then discovered I had a tick attached to my calf in spite of the spray. I should have showered and taken off my hiking clothes as soon as I got home. I found another adult tick, unattached, while showering and then found a couple of pinpoint sized ones over the course of the next few hours because I sure as hell wasn't sleeping. Besides I had to get the clothes in the dryer. But for some reason even though I've found ticks on me before, this one set off a full-body whole-life panic attack that is still ongoing. I'm crying at everything. Everyone is irritating me. And I just feel itchy and crawly all the time. I've examined crevices of my body I haven't looked at in years. I shaved places I haven't shaved in years. I've made my husband do several full body exams...he didn't seem to mind somehow.

Apologies if I've now contaminated you with the creepies.

Thanks, I sure will!!!!

She definitely will. At my appointment last fall she suggested I try an OTC supplement and call her back if I decide I want to go with HRT. So I feel certain she's going to give me a scrip today. I'm not sure exactly what, I guess estrogen and progestin since I still have my uterus. But it'll be an interesting experience I'm sure!

That's a really good point there at the end. Rather than having employers making accommodation for people dealing with the symptoms of menopause, be sure that the company health insurance has good coverage and resources for it and make an effort to put the information out into the employee population so they can use the benefit. People in menopause most likely don't want to "out" themselves for fear of repercussions.

Quite helpful, thank you so much. I need to regulate my expectations so it's good to hear the reality.

Thank you!!!!

It was an interesting listen but seemed like mostly things we've already talked about extensively here. But if it reaches an audience that doesn't have the background we have, then I'm glad. I have my HRT appointment tomorrow and it helped me remember some of the minor symptoms I want to include when I discuss with my GYN.

Just finished Last Days and really loved it. I'll add this to my TBR.

Yeah OK after thinking about it overnight I did need to change it after all :P

YEE HAW

Thanks!!

This sounds interesting, I'm going to check it out. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, it's good to know what to expect. Is the progesterone generally a pill? I'm thinking about stopping the black cohosh to get it out of my system before the appointment. I've been taking it less than a year.

I just started Grand Hotel by Scott Kenemore. It has a pretty bad rating on Goodreads but I'm enjoying it so far, it's giving AHS Hotel plus a little Chaucer with all the weird individual stories.

Hugs friend. I'm naturally introverted and nowadays I wish I could live like a hermit. I get everything you said. Remember that movie "The Net" with Sandra Bullock where she never left the house until she got tied up in some espionage scheme? I'll take that minus the espionage.

I hate Walmart but that's where I ended up due to reasons, and they didn't seem to have any on the shelf and the line at the pharmacy was about 7 people long, so I ended up ordering it from Amazon. It should get here Sunday. In the meantime I got it off with Vitamin E oil, but I did have to rub a little and it wasn't great.