Duh...

Okay, so I'm 43 years old and experiencing early menopause thanks to chemotherapy....yay. Although I LOVE never having another menstrual cycle, the hot flashes are killing me!! Hang in there boys, I'm done talking about the gross part. So I went to Dr. Hui a couple weeks ago and she prescribed me a patch that would help me through the hot flashes. If you've never experienced these, you're lucky. They're just how they're described....hot and in a flash. It wouldn't be so bad, but the weather lately in Sacramento has been in the mid 90's everyday + hot flashes on top of that brings me to well over 100 degrees :( at any given time throughout the day without warning, and it happens a lot.

Okay, so we go and fill the prescription and last Thursday I applied the first weekly patch. I just reached inside the box and pulled out a little packet and slapped it on my back side. Last night I was complaining to John saying that this STUPID patch wasn't working and that I couldn't stand this any longer. In a calm and soothing voice (as usual) he says for me to relax and let the medication start working, that sometimes things take a little while. I thought for sure an entire week would be enough time for this to start working. So today I pulled out the prescription and took all the contents out of the box and noticed for the first time that there were 8 packets, 4 were colorful and 4 were plain with big bold writing on them. The writing clearly reads...

Contents: 1 ADHESIVE COVER

WARNING

THIS DOES NOT CONTAIN

ACTIVE MEDICATION.

APPLY OVER THE PATCH,

IF NECESSARY.

This was what I applied to my skin and left on for an entire week!!! We got a good chuckle out of this ~ it's no wonder my stupid hot flashes weren't going away :)

I still haven't heard back from Dr. Hui in regards to surgery so I emailed her yesterday. She said that she hasn't had a moment to speak with Dr. Bodai, that either one of them would be in contact with me soon. So....I shall wait to hear back.

Peace to you all ~ Love, Genie