Ladies, I’m going to tell you right now that EVERYTHING changes in your 50’s. Fellas, you too because it is very good and useful preparation for what is to come. Listen up! One day you will wake up, and there will be all these things that seemingly happened overnight. Your eyebrows will starting fading. My eyebrows were always dark and nicely shaped on their own, even had a little ridge down the middle where the hairs laid nicely in a row growing outward. I woke up one day and they were suddenly not dark, were they graying? I leaned in to get a better view and to my surprise couldn’t see a dern thing 6 inches from my face anymore. Seems along with my eyebrows fading, my vision at near has left me. So, I got my glasses on and got my phone flashlight on and got myself situated in a 10x magnifying mirror. Big mistake! I do not recommend this. As it turns out, my eyebrows aren’t fading at all, not even a little gray. Half of them have fallen out! Gone!

The loosening…by the time I was a Senior in high school I was wearing a D cup, that also happened overnight-ish. Large plumb chest I have had my entire adult life, nearly a heart beat all of their own, choking me at times. Well, that same night my eyebrows fell out, my boobs deflated, and I don’t mean a little bit, I mean a lotto bit. They look like Lipton tea bags, used ones, you know all the tea at the bottom – family sized of course. Like spring rolls from the Chinese buffet, I feel like I could just roll them right up. I may or may not have given this a try. And now instead of choking me they are pulling down and creating all this loose skin in my neck area! As far as this loosening goes, all my skin seems to be going south and it is not an attractive look at. all.

Then there’s this menopause. I am either flaming hot like an inferno or I am a blubbering crying mess overthinking every aspect of my life, or I am mad as all get out at everyone and everything. I think my co workers are scared of me. There seems to be no in between, just all of (one of) these episodes all the time. Its not fun.

Finally…we have lactose intolerance! A n y t h i n g that contains even the slightest percentage of dairy in it suddenly- the same night my eyebrows fell out- causes me terrible tummy issues. That is all I am going to say in this department…you have been warned!

I will leave you with this though, it is far better than the alternative. It is far better than not getting to live to this age at all. I lost my mom when she was just 51 years old, so I will gladly endure this. I just wanted to give you something to kind of plan for. Not that I listened to anyone older than me when they were trying to tell me these same kinds of things.

Trust me on this though- get you an eyebrow pencil and have that handy for the morning you wake up with your eyebrows gone! I’d pick one up at 49 if I were you.

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