Another week gone

Or is it 2? Time really just does fly by. 6 months sounds like plenty time, and in fact is,today, exactly 6 months to the day that I'll be doing the airplane jumping-out-of thing. So that feels like a good time to start counting down.....

So, since my last post, I decided that, as I have to goto the Doctor's and get a letter pronouncing me medically fit to jump,  I may as well have 'that' conversation as well. The one I've been putting off for a good 6 years now. Yes, it's time for me to give   waiting for the hot flushes to cease, all by themselves, and beg for some HRT. Slightly alarmed by the fact that neither of the 2 nurse practitioners that I prefer to see were available anytime soon, the receptionist seemed to sense that I didn't want to see a male doctor and offered me an appointment with a female doctor that afternoon. She, it turns out is "a big fan of HRT", so was quite happy to prescribe me a low dose synthetic drug called Livial/Tibolone which should start to work within a week, deep joy (actual, not sarcastic)  rather than the month that most other types of HRT take to become effective. 

That's probably the best news I've had in ages. I really can't wait for it to happen now. It's quite amazing what we put up with when adverse circumstances become habitual. It's the night time ones that really bother me. In the daytime it's bad enough, and quite embarrassing if it happens in the middle of a meeting at work (and the  embarrassment just makes it worse, as does any stress situation or actual heat) but they pass relatively quickly. At night they go on and on. I wake up over and over again, either because I'm equator hot and need to get the covers off or because I've already thrown the covers off, but then cooled down, so the cold air is on my sweat drenched skin and I'm arcticaly cold. Over and over again. So what this does is cause a long term, chronic (yes, tautology for dramatic effect) state of sleep deprivation. And that makes it hard to concentrate, hard to remember things in the short and medium term and hard to even remember what I was going to say next. I'm sure it'll come back to me.

Eventually.

So as good night's sleep is something I'm REALLY looking forward to. And if it really does happen within a week,  I am so going to go on and one about it.