I was sitting outside the other night and the evening air was so refreshingly nice. Suddenly, I started sweating profusely for no apparent reason. I went inside and put on a thinner t-shirt thinking that would help. Then it all went away as quickly as it started. Is male menopause a thing? Because I think I may have it.
As it turns out, male menopause, also called andropause, is a real thing in which men over age 50 have a drop in testosterone. And here’s another $5 word: hypogonadism, which is similar but can be treated with testosterone replacement therapy in the form of a pill or a patch.
So male menopause is caused by low testosterone and age. Great. I just turned 58 so I guess I have that to look forward to now. Happy birthday to me. Here’s your gift. Be excited. No exchanges or returns.
All of my female friends who are my age complain about the hot flashes. Mine was over in a flash but since I was at home it was really no big deal. Just surprising. If it happened at work or anywhere else it may have been worse.
Dear God, if you must send me though male menopause, please keep my hot flashes occurring during the evening hours when I am at home.
And I don’t mean to make light of female menopause which sounds much worse than male menopause from everything my friends tell me and through the research I did. A much bigger ordeal than profuse sweating in most cases.
Just one of life’s great joys I guess. Welcome to age 58.
And if that’s not bad enough here is one of my latest embarrassing stories.
You know those 1,500 jobs that are possibly coming to Rockdale? Well, I reported that the company who is coming was the American Glove Co. based in Dallas, OR.
So I got a call the other day from a Mr. Micky Garus, owner of the American Glove Co. I was so excited because I had really wanted to get an interview with someone from the company
Then my spirits fell when he told me, “I have a copy of The Rockdale Reporter in front of me and my company is not moving to Rockdale, TX.”
I stuttered and stammered a bit and let him know I would get to the bottom of it. I got his email address and gave him updates on what I found out.
What I found out was the company possibly, hopefully coming to Rockdale is the American STATESMAN Glove Co. A start up company that is so new they don’t even have a website yet. And they are based in Delaware.
So I had to eat crow and let Mr. Garus know that I was an idiot and I had to apologize and told him I’d print a retraction. This isn’t it. I will make it more formal. Just thought you might have a laugh at my expense if you were feeling in any way bad about yourself.
I apologize to all of you too for giving you the wrong information. However, the good news is that all of the other information I gave you was correct except the name of the company. By a one word omission in the name. Oops.
Luckily Mr. Garus was very nice about it and was more curious than anything else. My first question was, “How did you get a copy of The Rockdale Reporter in Oregon?” A friend had seen it and mailed a copy to him and asked him what was going on.
Me. I was going on. In 48 point type on the front page.
I blame manopause.
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