http://www.menologues.com/12/what-my-mother-never-told-me/ Because stumbling blindly through menopause is less fun than it sounds Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:42:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.menologues.com/12/what-my-mother-never-told-me/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Gloria Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:17:41 +0000 http://menologues.orajen.dev/?p=12#comment-16 Daughter Dear:  By way of defending myself you must remember Mary Todd Lincoln was in the next bed when I had my hysterestomy.  Things were done differently in the Civil War days.  Yes, I did have clots the size of Rhode Island and the embarrassment that goes along with them, however, I can't say I was in pain physically.  And you are correct in saying if you didn't have this procedure done you just weren't in style.  I think the doctors were running a "special" on them.  In ancient days they kept you in the hospital for 5 days and at the time the company I was working for allowed 8 weeks recuperation time at home.  Believe me I took complete and full advantage of this offer, although I must say that amount of time was not needed.  Daughter Dear:  By way of defending myself you must remember Mary Todd Lincoln was in the next bed when I had my hysterestomy.  Things were done differently in the Civil War days.  Yes, I did have clots the size of Rhode Island and the embarrassment that goes along with them, however, I can’t say I was in pain physically.  And you are correct in saying if you didn’t have this procedure done you just weren’t in style.  I think the doctors were running a “special” on them.  In ancient days they kept you in the hospital for 5 days and at the time the company I was working for allowed 8 weeks recuperation time at home.  Believe me I took complete and full advantage of this offer, although I must say that amount of time was not needed. 

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