Hot Nights

Women going through menopause during the summer know how hot hell is.

I cannot believe how it comes over you.  You're just laying there, dying of stifling summer heat with no air conditioning, trying to think cool thoughts so you can try to sleep when suddenly, from no where, your body (clearly very angry at you for having gotten old) ups the ante by turning on some internal furnace - full bore.  This furnace has yet to be found on a CAT scan but believe me, they will find it eventually because it is there.  Your first inclination is to "drop and roll".  Realizing that, no, you are not on fire you hold your breath for a moment in anticipation of spontaneous combustion - which at this point you would welcome.

And then, as quickly as it came, it is gone.  But it will come back.  And you will go without real sleep for an undetermined time.  Three months and counting...

By the way, body - you got old, not me.