No One Told Me Exactly What to Expect From Menopause. But the Messages I Did Get Were Very Wrong.

5:00am PDT - June 28th, 2019    robin williams - Time

I was 50 when I woke in my dark attic bedroom in Brooklyn, my heart speeding and my body incandescent with heat. I did not feel simply hot, no, I was being smothered by an internal fire that seemed to pool inside my body like lava. At first I thought it was a…