I will be away from the office for the next few weeks and will be unable to conduct interviews but I still wanted to bring
the experiences of women to this space. Therefore, I will share some previously published columns that I believe are still
relevant. Some people might be reading them for the first time as well. This was published on November 13th 2022.
“For two months I wasn’t seeing my health and I was thinking, ‘Lord, I hope I am not pregnant’, because I cannot deal with that right now. But you know another part of me was saying it is menopause and I can tell you I was not unhappy I was almost gleeful really.”
As she said that last sentence there was no gleeful expression on this sister’s face because as she told me earlier she was feeling sick and weak and like she wanted to give up on life.
“Right now, is only God keeping me going because all I want to do is lie down and don’t get up,” she said at one point.