Musings at Altitude

Denise and I have been apart a lot recently with both of us traveling, me for business and her to visit the remotely located grandkid.  And last night I was reminded that the perimenopausal symptoms can last up to 4 years, as I was shivering in the bed with the window open and she was comfortably taking in the cold night air.  There is an upside to this though – I think I lost 3 pounds from all the shivering.  I sense a new weight loss program in the works focused around opening all the windows at night and shivering yourself to lower weight and increased health!

On a serious note though, I failed to mention a couple weeks ago that I had the great pleasure of going out to dinner with several corporate family members (all females), and the conversation somewhat unnaturally turned to my blogs on living with a perimenopausal wife.  We quickly got through the sure to be heard, “You really blogged on that?” and “You’re still alive?”, and then we got serious.  One of the listeners asked, “Have you tried cabbage leaves?”  That really got my attention.  She went on to say that rumor has it that if you put cabbage leaves over the breasts of the one suffering the perimenopausal conditions, the conditions are eased.  I quickly wondered if the cabbage leaves needed to be frozen – that would make sense – although the cabbage would be warm and wilted within minutes and the conditions I’m sure would remain.  But she assured me it was just room temperature cabbage leaves and no special treatment required. 

I’m not making this up…this is really true!

So I’ve been pondering on this one for two weeks now and just don’t know how to break it to Denise.  I’m very worried about what she will do if I show up in the room at night with two big cabbage leaves in my hands!  It’s certainly a life threatening move on my part. 

But desperate men do desperate things!