A Side Note: Personal (but had to share)

Ok...if you don't want to read about girly issues...stop now.  I just wanted to share yet one more thing apparently no one is talking about (enough).  To set up: I have chronic anemia. The kind that requires iron infusions up to 3 times a year so I can walk around.  The culprit - my cycle.  So, since I'm closer to menopause than college, my doctor took me into a lovely book filled room, put on her dark glasses and asked me if I wanted the "Red Pill or the Blue Pill" and explained the results of both.  The "Red Pill" was hormonal tampering birth control which years ago had turned me into a raging bull and I was not a fan of.  But I got to keep all my insides and they wouldn't come near me with a needle.  The "Blue Pill" was something different than the infamous hysterectomy - they took out the lining of your uterus, left everything intact and working like normal - just no red parade every month.

I paused.

I took the "Red Pill" simply because I'd researched it already.  Unlike Neo, I could come back and take the other one whenever I wanted. 2 weeks on the patch and I had a rash up the entire right side of my body, a constant headache and a messed up cycle (which is lot like the movie Alien - something struggling inside to get out by any means necessary).  I went back for the "Blue Pill".  Dr. Morpheus held it back a second: "If you choose this one, you can never have children, you can never go back."  I thought about it - hmmm...no kids?  I get to live my life just as I've been living it?  I'm too old to have kids, I'm not married and don't plan on it, and I don't like kids (as a rule)...so I grabbed it.

So far, so good.  Don't remember Friday (day of the surgery), nauseau on Sunday and normal pre-cycle activity so far.  Will keep you girls posted...I know there are a LOT of girls suffering without a purpose.  We perpetually freedom chicks (non-breeders) need to stick together! (Sorry, boys, but I did warn you to stop reading in the beginning...)