wihtlft: as i get older ...

thanks @jenimvt @billn6 for yesterday's (saturday's) messages. though i wish we were next door neighbors, the 3-hour time difference and text messaging was awesome! and as a result, i'll start my short series of posts about what i have to look forward to ... based on whatever random thoughts collide and connect as i spend time on the web, e.g., emails, facebook, twitter, blogs, tumblr, ... inspired by our text messages and/or chats!

(NOTE: if you choose to read on, this post has references 

to scatology and "the change" ... just sayin')

 

what i have to look forward to ... as i get older,  inspired by this morning's web troll -

• new facebook improv friend just had a prime number birthday (29)
• read blog post dear GOP: you do know how pregnancy works, right?
• contemplated pro-choice, pro-life, and just being a human being
• listened to my joints creak while i finished up stretches via my pep pads
• revisited my tiny habits for a refresher
• trolled through twitter and came across corporate rebels united (and their scoop.it)
• revisited my google reader for some minor differences at the oatmeal and came across being in love at ...
• and then started to clean out old email newsletters when i came across women to women (yup, really!)

result? ... choices and aging. i started thinking about what choices i have as i get older - i can choose ...

• to eat better, 
• to exercise regularly, 
• to decide how much social media to digest, 
• whom to date,
• when (and whether) i read my unread emails

... BUT i can NOT choose what perimenopausal / menopausal symptoms i have as i stroll into toward 50 years old next year. i fell down the interwebs menopausal rabbit-hole, curious about what choices i do NOT have. read on or don't read on, this is what i learned ...

• many(!) symptoms ... web site with 34 menopause symptoms including
  • beyond hot flashes, there are ember flashes
  • as part of digestive problems, i could get bloating and constipation
• what?! there is a website called poop doc, which includes a menopause blurb
• and when i think doctor, i think dr. oz (of course), and we ALL know dr. oz TOTALLY has poop info and episodes (just word search) and even a video clip on poop primer (shape, consistency, color)
• and to bring it back around, here's what dr. oz has to offer about a functional medicine approach to menopause and his menopause survival guide
• one more other doctor, christiane northrup of women's bodies, women's wisdom on the perimenopause transition 
• and yet another symptom - sleep disorders (ugh!)

. birthday . pro-choice . healthy habits . gathering information .  

. fiber . being a woman . menopause . symptoms . 

. hot flashes . poop . menopause . insomnia .

infographic me ... i looked for any infographics on my connecting the dots*. menopause? none. poop? yes, the facts about poop. sleep? yes, the secret to better sleep.


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News & Tips at Greatist. * CONTEXT: because thoughts are like dots ... i like to connect them. sometimes the dots/thoughts relate (in the conventional sense), sometimes they don't (simply because others may not see the relationship), and always they make sense, at least to me, at the time i connect the thoughts.