Both suffered the hilarity and horror that is menopause.
Friends for a very long time, we found that our stories collided in tears and laughter, ultimately finding an outlet for our experiences in our play ‘Busted Flush’. Laura, our central character, is neither of us and both of us, and indeed all women.
‘Busted Flush’ is a poker term meaning a potentially winning hand, but the final card you are dealt ruins it: something that looks and feels great but collapses in defeat.
We found that ignorance of what was happening to us was dangerous, impacting on every relationship, every aspect of the home and professional life. Laura goes from super-capable to not knowing whether it’s Tuesday or Easter.
Her husband, her children, her mother, her friends, her colleagues, and indeed, Laura herself, struggle to recognise and understand this ‘change’. The play takes us on her journey where not understanding can lose you everything and everyone.
By placing Laura centre stage and opening up this blog, we hope to replace ignorance with knowledge, secrecy and shame with shared information, bewilderment with hope, so that family life is no longer in such peril during these years.
There are many brilliant movements, organisations and individuals putting out information and, thankfully, their numbers are increasing, but that doesn’t mean that they are always heard, or that menopause is an easy journey. With resonant voices such as Michelle Obama, Gillian Anderson and Meg Matthews speaking out, the time is now to open up the dialogue.
We want to hear your stories, your experiences, what you wish you had known before, during and after menopause came into your life, and help us to rewrite the script for so many women in the years to come.
It’s time we put this stage of life in the limelight, all the comedy and tragedy of your stories,
Miranda & Louise
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