Can we talk about my period?
How am I a 43 year old woman who still bleeds through jeans?
First a fun Hot Sicilian thing. We have been chosen as a BEST BEACH READ by Katie Couric Media (love me some Katie). The story was written by Jane Rosen who has a wonderful new beach read herself out soon, SEVEN SUMMER WEEKENDS, which I will be doing a giveaway for soon.
Fair warning…I am going to recount a story in this newsletter that might be horrifying to some, gross to others, validating to many and reassuring to even more.
The truth is that despite being a 43-year old woman who has been getting a period mostly every month (save for breeding time) for about 30 years I am still at a loss for how to stop leaking all over the place.
There was a time when I got into a groove. It rarely happened in my twenties when I was on birth control and when my vagina was still a perfectly elastic opening the size of a super Tampax.
Things are different now. My vagina is essentially the size of the grand canyon and my periods don’t come in a seven-day drip, they’re more like nothing, nothing, nothing….the Hoover Dam just burst. And that’s what happened the other day…..during a book event. Yup. In front of about 50 people.
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