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Games our bodies play
Menopause B-I-N-G-O
A game where eventually everyone wins
BINGO! Indeed, just this week Mother Nature called out “brittle teeth” in her little game of Menopause Bingo and I won it on the diagonal. Five hundred dollars in prize money, however since everything is backward or inverted during this most blessed time, I had to shell it out instead of blowing it on trivial things like groceries.
Monday, I was putting on my lipstick, which is strategically layered directly over the plumping serum, that is under the Phyto-Retino gel but only after the hyaluronic acid, which oddly enough protects from UV rays, when I noticed a discoloration in my tooth.
The dentist had an opening on Friday which I gladly took offering to secure it with a credit card, firstborn, or warm glazed donuts.
Dr. Smiley has always greeted me with warm words but with the tone of an undertaker. His voice softly fades on the last word of each sentence, his eyes hold a permanent empathetic stare and he nods after everything I say. If his dental business ends up like a wrong pair of misaligned dentures he could rake in the bucks as a funeral director, once he trades the white coat for a black suit.
The doctor points his laser light onto the monitor on the wall that now has a…
