Sitting Shit-va for My Sanity: Hormones, Hemorrhoids & the Art of Being Abandoned | Ep. 54

Menopause is calling the shots this week, and we are officially unqualified. Leora’s brain fog peaks when she can’t find a store she’s visited for years—while literally standing two blocks away—and a listener shares a cautionary tale so horrifying it deserves its own emergency alert: toothpaste… on hemorrhoids. Yes, it burned. Yes, we screamed. Yes, therapy is optional.Meanwhile, Eliana is in a full hormonal tailspin because her son is moving to California for a girlfriend—which she’s interpreting not as “young love,” but as “abandoning your mother to die alone in a nursing home a six-hour flight away.” Totally rational. No notes.Also in mourning: multiple household appliances, because nothing says midlife like sitting “shit-va” while everything you own dies one by one. Add in their mother’s timeless marriage advice (“feed them and f*ck them”), anatomy confusion that should concern everyone involved, and kids who forum-shop their parents like it’s Shark Tank.MenOpod: where the hormones are loud, the advice is questionable, and the disclaimer is doing a lot of heavy lifting.👉 Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@MenOpodPodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more midlife madness, menopause hacks and behind-the-scenes shenanigans🎧 Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss the mess