Musings at Altitude

I give up.  Seriously.  I give up.

I flew all the way to Alaska yesterday, which must be 2,500 miles from my home in Colorado Springs.  As I watched from the plane and saw the final range of mountains flow out below me before landing in Anchorage, I smiled in knowing that for these few nights, so far away from home, the heat induced trauma of the body changing events in Denise would have no affect on me at all.

Boy was I wrong.

I woke up four times last night, sweating in my sleep.  Even without the heater on in the hotel room, I was roasting in bed.  When the alarm finally went off, I was grateful to get into a cold shower just to cool off.  Now I’m left wondering what the heck this means!

Several things come to mind:

(1) Denise called ahead and covertly worked with the hotel to put a high intensity bed warmer under the bed

(2) I’m being punished for what some believe is my insensitivity to these body changing events, and now I’m living them myself to “create in me a sympathetic heart”

(3) The asterisk (*) at the end of the the article about PERIMENOPAUSE actually says that it’s contagious, and those in close proximity for an extended period of time may indeed suffer perimenopausal like symptoms

(4) This is purely coincidence

Since I don’t believe in coincidence, I’m focused on (1) through (3). 

I’ll spend some time today looking for clues and doing additional research.  None of these three would surprise me.