And the Soles of Your Shoes Are All Worn Down

I've been trying to write this post for the last couple of weeks, but our internet at home is spotty, and we've been busy at work. So, I'm not updating this post again, or I'll never publish this thing: 

Okay. So, I've been having migraines on and off now for three weeks and it's hard to make my brain work well enough to write anything ground breaking, or all that interesting. I'm taking the next two days off for the Trek World Cup Cyclocross race. I probably won't be able to race at all, since I'm so weak and dizzy from stupid migraines. John will race all three days and we'll be in Madison for almost four days.

Last Thursday I had my third year post breast cancer mammogram. I went in the morning and had my mammogram and then met with the oncologist nurse practitioner who told me that my preliminary report was clean. Yea me!

Oh, old lady health issues, I'm a little annoyed with you all. Speaking of old lady health issues, I've been reading this very long, but very informative article about the link between Alzheimer's and menopause here: https://medium.com/neurotrack/menopause-and-alzheimers-1c455f29fe16. Of course, Alzheimer's doesn't seem to run in my family...Or maybe it does, but everyone in my family tends to smoke so much that they die of cancer or strokes or heart attacks, and they don't live long enough to find out if it runs in our family or not.

Anyway, this woman proposes that there is a strong link to menopause and Alzheimer's in women. Basically, they think women start getting Alzheimer's right when they hit menopause. Great. The woman says you can keep this from happening by avoiding, alcohol, sugar, caffeine, processed food, and stress. Excuse me, but how are we supposed to deal with our stress when we have to avoid alcohol, sugar, caffeine, and processed food?

Soooo, I'm working hard to eat better, even though perimenopause makes me crave sugar and stresses me out, making that way more of a challenge than it should be. I suppose the good thing about getting Alzheimer's with my menopause, will be forgetting what perimenopause felt like. Hot flashes? What are those? Migraines? I can't really recall that pain. Crying for no reason? When did that happen? Gaining weight by just looking at food? Haven't I always weighed this much? Maybe I shouldn't work so hard at eating better and avoiding alcohol after all...