Period

I barely have time to type but I just must get these thoughts out of my head...
I did a rough count yesterday and I think I have had about 312 periods in my life. Right? I mean I not going to really get the calculator out but I think that is right. I bring this up b/c clearly, I am having my 313th period right now. And I don't care if it's this one, the 1st one or the 100th one, it still shocks me that every month I loose the LINING of an organ in my body. We all do. We are all walking around doing this like no big deal. It's weird. And it's top secret. We all whisper it..."i got my period". We are whispering something that has happened to us 312 times....what the hell. And I really bring this up b/c I don't think men can truly understand the magnitude of this whole thing...I know they can't b/c I barely can. But this hormone driven monthly activity causes a physical and mental and emotional collapse to some of us...but we can handle it b/c it's happened 312 times. AND it didn't just show up on it's own. About 10 days before, a golf ball traveled through a tube in our body to get this whole thing going. I am one of those people who have a pretty tough ovulation. I mean it's weird. I can be in pain and grimace and the kids can say"what's wrong" and I just say..."oh, an egg is traveling through tiny tubes to land in an organ that will shed itself in about a week....no big deal really".
IT'S A BIG DEAL......and I am sick of it.....