by Trudy Rankin | Aug 6, 2019 | Finding Your Voice, Menopause Journeys
At the age of twenty-five, I was diagnosed with endometriosis and had a hysterectomy. It was the mid-70’s, forty-odd years ago, and a very different time. Although I was constantly bleeding and in terrible pain, and had been for over eighteen months, my GP... by Trudy Rankin | Jul 2, 2019 | Feeling Dead & Uninspired, Finding Your Voice
For some of us, we’ve been so busy running everyone else’s lives that allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in the Menopause journey. By closing ourselves off to our own desires and wishes for our own lives, a lot of us have... by Trudy Rankin | Jul 2, 2019 | Menopause Nightmares, Menopause Symptoms, Sleepless & Tired, What The Bleep
Actually it felt more like I was awake from 2013 to 2019. It may have been longer. Sleeplessness is a great leveller. It’ll level anyone and anything that gets in its path. Once upon a time, there was a lady who was a great sleeper. She could sleep and sleep and... by Trudy Rankin | Jun 17, 2019 | Menopause Journeys, Partner, Redefining You
I think I was 43 or 44 when I started experiencing changes to my periods. It could have been earlier, but I was in the final throes of alcoholic drinking so nothing was normal. I’d been trying to get and stay sober for a few years so it could have been going on for a... by Trudy Rankin | Jun 12, 2019 | Family, Menopause Symptoms, Weight Wrangler
My mum had her first heart attack at age 61. In 1988 Mum had 3 separate cardiac events; 2 heart attacks and a cardiac arrest. Lucky for Mum (and the family) she had the cardiac arrest in a Coronary Care ward at a hospital where there was easy access to defibrillators...