First, a PROMPTuesday, then real life

It's been a while since I played San Diego Momma's PROMPTuesday game, but today I intend to participate. This post is this week's prompt, and here's my submission:

I'm sitting at my desk at work. We're in a cubicle farm, one that is mostly empty this early. The cubicle isn't one of the fancy ones they show in movies and on Dell commercials; rather it's three short fabric-covered walls and a sort of table that holds my computer, a second monitor, a telephone, and a stack of paperwork. I'm turned to the side, facing my Chromebook. There's a travel mug inches from my right hand and I can still taste the vanilla flavor of the Wawa coffee I drank a second ago. I can hear people talking on the other end of the room and my work buddy Steve typing on his computer just over my right shoulder. I still have my sweater on, over the short-sleeved shirt I'm wearing today, and can feel the softness of the sleeves. I'm holding my cell phone pressed between my left ear and shoulder as I type and am listening to my boyfriend's voice in my ear. My head hurts a little bit, an annoying ache at the base of my skull. My tummy hurts because it's that time of the month and I'm n Day Three of cramps, which is annoying, but I'm in a good mood so it's not getting t me like it could. Achy but happy, that's me!

And now onto today's blog...

We bottled after work yesterday. We moved the carboy at lunchtime so there would be time for the sediment to settle before we got ff work. There was some tasting during the bottling process and I gotta say this beer is awesome. Like my note? I needed to make sure the boys stayed off the good stuff.

Speaking of the boys, my son was almost attacked by The World's Biggest Possum last night. It was peering at him from a tree. Did you know possums climbed trees? I didn't.

My girl has an interview down here today. It's looking like she's definitely going to come stay with us for a bit. I'm hoping this works out. I think it will. My mental fingers are crossed, anyway.

I'm letting Sissy and the BBE talk me into pushing at my do todayctor to try to get some help for my girl problems. Here's what I go through every month: A few days to a week before my period starts, I get an attack of extreme craziness. Crazy to the point that I feel bi-polar. I miss work because of it. Every crazy thing I've done in my life has happened when I'm in the grip of pre-period craziness. The day before my period starts, I get an insanely bad headache. It's not quite a migraine, but it's very very close. Sometimes the constancy of the pain makes me cry. The headache normally stays around until the second or third day of my period, so three to four days total. And then my period starts. Always, I have gripping, aching, ripping cramps for the first two or three days (matches the headache). I bleed very heavily for that time. I make blood clots, usually a bunch of tiny ones which I've learned is normal because I'm bleeding so heavily. I also make several that are baseball-sized or larger every cycle, and getting them out of me usually involves cramps the feel like mild contractions. I bleed for five to seven days, and then a week later I spot, which I'm assuming is ovulation. And then it starts all over again.

Sissy told me this morning that both of my grandmothers, her, and an aunt all had hysterectomies for the very same symptoms I'm dealing with. I'm not sure that's the answer for me, but I am sure that I'm tired of dealing with this. I have three adult children, my tubes have been tied for almost 18 years, and enough is enough. I'm trying to get it through my head that I can fight. I've fought this before and got nowhere, but it's getting worse as I get older and maybe I need to start fighting again.

So I've got my eye on an OB/GYN down here that might help me. I'm going to call in a bit and see if I can get in to see her. I'll tell her about the problems I had last summer and what I go through every month. I'll call my primary care doctor and get a referral, and then I'll see what happens next.

And I'll totally blog about my uterus, because I know that's what everyone wants to read about. Sometimes, my son reads my blog. I bet he'll love this post!

The things that make me happy today are:
Overnight pads
Wawa French vanilla coffee with vanilla flavored cream (the vanilla bomb!)
My Chromebook
Knowing the giant possums climb trees, and hang out in town
Hot showers
This song: