Re: *I've* started carrying a PURSE????
From: Chris (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:56:54 +1000
You go Girl :)
Emma
>----- Original Message -----
From: jodi <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 6:02 AM
Subject: *I've* started carrying a PURSE????
> Now HERE'S a symptom I haven't read of metformin helping with... heh.
>
> Anyone else feel that they have always been tomboyish... PRIDED
> themselves on their tomboyishness even? I sure have... Way, way back in
> fifth grade, I remember playing "boys chase girls" at recess (a very
> original, creatively named game where the boys chased the girls... :-P)
> and I was never on the girls' team. Nope... was never good friends
> with the girls, always better friends with the boys. I was always on
> the boys' team... as their "spy..." which means I pretended to be on
> the girls' team, but rather than chase the boys, I chased the girls and
> put them in jail for the boys. (You'd think the girls would have caught
> on eventually... but they never did...)
>
> ANYWAY... I have always hated carrying purses. Just one more of my
> tomboyish aspects... always disdained women carrying purses... like,
> my mother whose purse resembled more of a carry-on bag, and contained
> everything but the kitchen sink... yet, if I was wearing a dress and
> had no pockets and wanted her to carry my wallet or hairbrush or
> whatever for me... "There's no ROOM, Jode..."
>
> Whatever. If I had to go without pockets, I would try my damndest to A.
> stuff whatever I needed in my bra or B. get someone else to carry
> whatever I needed before I would give in to carrying a purse. Usually,
> I would come up with some excuse to carry my bookbag, rather than submit
> to something so girly as carrying a purse.
>
> Lately, I have been carrying a purse. Even when I have pockets. Like,
> today... I have pockets, but I am carrying a purse. (Partly, it's 'cuz
> I've bought this nifty purse which is exactly the perfect size to carry
> my hairbrush, my wallet, my cell phone, and a ball of kitchen cotton so
> I can crochet wherever I happen to be...)
>
> And I LIKE carrying a purse, now, darnit! :-)
>
> For the first summer of my adult life, I feel like a girl. A GIRL!
> SOMETHING is working, I tell you... and it's wonderful. And it's not
> limited to mental changes... The leg hair problem is truly lessening
> and lessening... last night I realised, it's been a week since I
> shaved, and I could still wear shorts without embarrrassment. (I
> wouldn't... but I could. I shaved today...) The dark coarse hair
> halfway down my inner thighs is GONE. I silk-epiled it last ... uhhhh,
> well, a few days after May 14th, and there was hardly any there then.
> Now... it's gone. Ditto the miracle marsh (far too much to call a
> treasure trail...) under my belly button, save for one or two coarse
> strays...
>
> I don't think anyone without PCOS can realise how awesome this is. Never
> before have I been able to shave my legs and feel it's been worth the
> effort... before, I would shave, and then put lotion on my legs, and
> hate how minutes after shaving, I felt stubbly. How no matter what
> razor I used, no matter how much time and care I took, no matter how
> many billions of directions I shaved in... it did no good whatsoever.
> Now, I can shave my legs, and apply lotion, and my legs feel SMOOTH as I
> apply lotion. Two, three, four days later... the stubble is THERE, of
> course, but it is lighter, finer, doesn't give you splinters to touch. I
> reiterate... for the first time in my adult life, I feel like a GIRL.
> And ohhhh... I love it. I can't wait to visit my bf in California and
> wear GIRLY clothes... which I must confess I've been spending far too
> much money on lately... but I've got so many years of feeling hideous
> to make up for... surely I deserve this small treat...
>
> But of course... back to my ever-present dillemma... I have no idea
> what caused this. Was it... 6 months on the met? 3 months on the BCP?
> Exercise & weight loss? Last week, after spotting on the Pill...
> AGAIN... I decided, screw it! I don't care if the Pill IS causing the
> hair reduction, I am not going to be bleeding all the time... But after
> a week, of course, I changed my mind. I started a new pack today...
> because fertile or no, idea what's going on in my body or no... feeling
> like a girl is a fine trade-off for bleeding a little all the time.
> Though I am going to call my doc tomorrow and ask if there's a different
> pill I can try...
>
> In the mean time... there's HOPE! Hope for feeling normal, at least...
> medications out the wazoo or no... How I WISH I'd have learned about
> PCOS while I was still a teenager... rather than just ACCEPTING "some
> women are hairier than others..." "we can't find anything wrong with
> you..." "it's normal to have irregular periods at your age..." "your
> problems come from being bulimic..."
>
> to think of all the summers I felt so disgusting when I could have been
> prancing around in shorts and haltertops feeling like a human being...
> Ah well, better late than never. I'm only 24... I've got a few good
> years left to rejoice in feeling sexy. :-) And I'm happy about that...
>
> Hoping no one wants to smack me for being so jubilant...
>
> - Jodi
>
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