POST MENOPAUSAL FROG

Wikipedia states the metaphor of the frog placed in water and slowly heated up to boiling... supposedly boiling to death without realizing it, is a "story is often used as a metaphor for the inability of people to react to important changes that occur gradually." But I'm about to blow the theory behind the metaphor. This morning when I was comfortably riding in the slightly air conditioned car, suddenly I had to turn the fan on high. It was urgent. I've felt this way before if standing in the sunshine on a hot day when suddenly I'll go from feeling comfortable to the feeling "I'M BOILING TO DEATH"... Which was the feeling I got this morning. I then told my husband how I now know that if you tried out that theory with a frog, when the frog got to the temperature in which it would feel just as I do during a "hot flash," it would do everything in its power to jump out of the water.

I'm blogging this because I think everyone who has experienced hot flashes would agree. When a woman has a hot flash, it's not just the feeling one gets when taking cookies out of the oven... We feel like the oven, and we feel a threatening need to cool off fast. So use another metaphor, believe me, that frog would hit the temperature I felt this morning. Now maybe any man who reads this will understand what we go through... And why the post-menopausal woman is more interested than anyone to stop Global Warming.

"Ribbit!!"