Me and My Menopause
‘This is the new me’
Menopause took writer Jenny Tucker by surprise – but talking to her girlfriends helped get her through.
“I never thought I’d become that woman. The woman who buys a tankini for her beach holiday, cries at dog-food adverts on TV, and permanently sits (in a vest) by an open window when most other humans are swaddled in jerseys against winter’s bone-cracking cold. But then, five years ago, menopause came crashing into my world (I was 51) and life, as I knew it, changed radically.
‘We need more understanding – menopause is simply part of every woman’s life’
It was as though all the switches were suddenly turned up. I felt hotter, more tearful, annoyingly forgetful, constantly tired, and (big sigh)