Hot Flashes...

I recall Mommie sitting quiet and peaceful, then shaking her clothes and yelling - she kept a Kleenex up her sleeve to wipe the perspiration from her lip. "Get me ice water, get me ice water." She said she was having a hot flash. Didn't know what that was, knew it was no fun for us. So this is where I am...last night it is chilly here. (I know, I know, not Malone chilly, but chilly for here) so I am wearing sweats, sleeping socks and a long sleeved shirt for bed - I like the window open, fresh air helps some people sleep. Crawl into my bed, snuggle under my blankies - start saying my prayers and then it comes - like a wave to the shore you know it is coming - throw off the covers, take off the socks, toss and turn - sweat everywhere - then it is gone - put back on the socks, snuggle back under the blankets - so what is the deal with this? It hardly seems fair that women have to bear this atrocious phenomenon. Sometimes it hits you so hard you actually have to get up and change your PJ's because you are soaked with sweat. I want a refund - I want a do over. Why do we have to have hot flashes in the middle of Target? There is no place there to gracefully which you were naked in a bucket of ice? And the irritability! Seriously, you can't help yourself - you want to - you know it is not you, and you do your best to grin and bear it; matters not. Sooner or later it will hit you and you will hit something! Your mouth will put out words you did not even know existed. You will feel terrible for being so miserable to a complete stranger or a loved one; you will try to explain - it matters not, damage done. When the principal at my school would have a hot flash I made such fun of her. I am sorry. She said my day would come - It has! Ought to be some justice for women, some stipend we receive from someone to compensate us for our troubles - breast feeding and hot flashes? That is a lot to ask. Not having been blessed with giving birth, but that too - I hear it hurts a lot! Oh, it is all just one big joke until it happens to you and your the one screaming; "Get me ice water, get me ice water."