Big Bang 4-0!

I have been preparing myself for the historic event that’s going to happen real soon.  Apparently, I haven’t prepared myself enough.  In a few days’ time, I’ll be celebrating my “big bang 4-0th” (as a friend has aptly called it) birthday.  I am terribly dreading it. All my other friends have accepted the inevitable, but me, I am not just ready. NO, NO, NO!!!!

Surely a lot of people find this strange.  As I go along, a lot of you could (and I hope, would) relate with me.  Then it wouldn’t seem so strange after all. 

When I turned 37, I began experiencing slight physical changes, which bore an ominous note of things yet to come.  My hormones began acting up and I experienced horrible, debilitating migraines.  Probably SLIGHT is too tender a word to use here.  I thought I was a little young-ish to be dealing with the word hormones.  Think again. It was right there staring at me in the face and doing a little jig!

Then came my eyesight.  I have always had poor eyesight.  But the moment I became 39, I felt my eyes had minds of their own.  Sometimes I’m nearsighted, other times, farsighted. Ano ba talaga, ate?!?

Before, I would eat a tub of oysters and could still afford to eat ice cream right after.  Now, a plate of oysters equal to a regimen of anti-bacterial.  For that matter, I could eat anything then and not feel anything.  No squeamishness, no nausea, no grumbling stomach.

When I went to see my dermatologist recently, she gave me the real deal.  Those sunspots aren’t going anywhere. In fact, they just came from the Garden of Eden and have been told to multiply!

I feel like my body is totally rebelling against me.  And here I am, still searching for the proverbial elixir of youth…..

More to come before the big day comes!