A brand new birth-control pill will make periods optional:
If a new brand of birth control gets approved early next year, that time of the month could become the time of, like, the decade. Lybrel, a birth-control pill made by Wyeth, would be the first oral contraceptive to deliver an uninterrupted supply of hormones. Seventy percent of women who took it for six months were period-free, according to a preliminary study by the company.
You could skip it for your entire 20's if you want. Any takers? Husbands, put your hands down.
What I would find optimum is the way it was done in the Old Testament and by the Indians, where you're considered unclean and have to go live alone in a tent at the edge of the village for a week. That sounds like a nice rest right when you need it. Throw in a bottle of Motrin and it's perfect.
Posted by floridacracker at October 24, 2006 10:10 AMOH. A nice quiet place by myself ~ no dishes, no dusting, no dogs. Me, a couple bottles of wines and a box of chocolate. Complete psychic renewal.
No wonder we don't get to do it anymore.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at October 24, 2006 10:33 AMMe, my cousin, and my sister discussed the unclean option when we were young women and thought it sounded grand.
Posted by: Donnah at October 24, 2006 10:47 AMDrumroll. And the unintended consequences are. . .
stay tuned. We don't know yet.
Bones like fresh, crisp snowpeas maybe?
Posted by: Donnah at October 24, 2006 12:57 PMQuiet for a week? Sounds good to me.
Posted by: Juan Paxety at October 24, 2006 06:38 PM...but the money I'd save by not having to buy Tylenol and such. Looks like a win-win to me.
Wail on, Donnah!
Posted by: Trambo at October 24, 2006 10:43 PMMr. Cracker brings me a cup of tea, then goes to see a man about a dog.
Posted by: Donnah at October 26, 2006 06:57 AM