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    A Hairy Rant: Waxing Woes and My Love-Hate Relationship with Body Hair

      Nothing to see here!!!!!! Give me a break nature!!!!! Hair removal—the never-ending, utterly Sisyphean endeavour. Yes, yes, I’m aware that hair must serve some mysterious biological purpose, though I’ve yet to figure out precisely what that might be (aside…

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    Rant Alert: The Bin Men of West Lothian and Their Olympic Bin-Tossing …

    I have to confess, I may have embellished a bit for the sake of this tale. You see, it’s not actually me whose life is consumed by the relentless complexities of bin rota and bin day logistics. No, that crown…

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    Orgasms After a Radical Hysterectomy: Plumbing Problems and the Quest for Pleasure

    The infamous radical hysterectomy: that monumental surgical event where your plumbing is removed, leaving you to navigate life with a somewhat minimalist approach to reproductive anatomy. You might be left wondering, “Is there still a chance for me to enjoy…

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    Surgical Menopause, Phantom PMDD, and My Fateful Fling with Red Wine: A …

    Picture this: a woman teetering on the edge of reason, locked in a baffling ménage-à-trois with surgical menopause, phantom PMDD, and the merciless march of time. It’s as though I signed up for freedom from PMDD, yet somehow got a…

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    Radical Hysterectomy for PMDD? How My Brain Missed the Memo

    When I signed up for a radical hysterectomy and oophorectomy in 2019 to rid myself of PMDD once and for all, I envisioned myself strolling through life with serene hormonal equilibrium, utterly free of ovary-induced dramas. But there I was,…

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    The Midlife Blogging Dilemma: To Rant or Not to Rant?

    Ah, the grand debate of the modern age: to blog, or to privately fume in silence? Here I am, zooming toward the dignified age of 42—or as dignified as one can feel on the hormonal rollercoaster that is surgical menopause.…

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    Why I Left Social Media: A Journey to Realness in a Filtered …

    Urghhhh, Social media. The digital carnival that lured us in with the promise of connection but too often delivered a funhouse of distorted reflections. I decided it was time to take my leave from this shimmering spectacle and reclaim my…

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    Moi!

      Kitty’s Real-Life Chronicles Welcome to my delightful little nook of the internet! I’m Kitty, a 40-something navigating the tumultuous waters of life after being catapulted into surgical menopause at the ripe age of 37—thanks ever so much to the…

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