Things she wishes someone had said to her at the time.
She blamed the coffee. The screen time. The fact that she had not wound down properly. She blamed herself every single month.
She believed you. She walked out of that clinic holding a piece of paper that said everything was fine. And she felt relieved for about an hour.
Perimenopause. She heard it for the first time at forty, when she was already deep inside it. Most women hear it in their late forties, when they are already three quarters of the way through.
