My name is Jaime, this will probably be long… I was a military spouse (veteran’s wife now) so we moved every couple years and thought my itchy ears and scalp were just new allergy symptoms. I started having issues recalling stupid trivia (just random useless crap I know) but my dad had Alzheimer’s which started in his 50s so I thought, I guess I’m next. Then my husband and I were in a hit and run motorcycle accident which resulted in a broken pelvis which led to restrictions in movement and a year recovery so I have the physicality of a geriatric person now. There were lots of pain meds AND I know my helmet came off because I had road rash on one side of the back of my head, staples on the other and a cheek bone the size of a softball so the resulting mental decline seemed - normal-ish? This year I started getting hot - but not the hot flashes so many describe - I’d just get hot for a few mins and then it would go away. Now - I have frozen shoulder. I got stuck in my scrub top one night after already taking my pants off and thought “this is how it ends. My loved ones are going to find me naked from the waste down, suffocated in my shirt with my arms stuck above my head. How embarrassing.” And my periods -last one in July but after the accident they got wonky. I mean, I thought I was peri-menopausal but aren’t we all after a certain age? I guess I’m on the downside of perimenopause and almost fully menopausal. Finding someone to help with HRT is like finding a mythical creature. Being on Tricare definitely doesn’t help. So I’m just over here winging it.