What a horrible experience @arpie.
I was definitely in the run up to menopause and had taken some months at the beginning of last year to adjust to what was coming. I felt a bit confronted but I adjusted and was at peace with it. I really wanted to do it naturally and ease into it. Do it as elegantly as possible. Instead it was with cancer, stress, chemotherapy and Letrozole...
Oh well. That ship has sailed. It's just another item on the list of sadnesses that BC brought me. I'll live. I hope!