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H: Menopause.


N: Exactly. Maybe. There’s hope. And sometimes I notice early on and I can catch a couple of effects before they really hit. Very often I notice it will happen because my speaking and writing don’t work as I'm used to. So when I write and I am about to get a migraine, I confuse letters with numbers. Very strange, like I’m a leet-Person or something. So when I write an email and I see on the screen that instead of E there’s always a 3, I know I have to put my contingency plans into action. Anyway, I noticed something which I like very much. You have the big church window behind you.


H: I know.


N: And I look a bit like a saint today, I think, you know, not like a male saint with a beard and ragged clothes, like a woman saint in a painting with a beatific smile, very content. Yes. Don’t you think so?


H: I think you look like yourself every single day.


N: Well that’s no contradiction.


H: Another thing which just came to mind: I did something this morning that I never do. Ever.


N: You had breakfast.


H: No.


N: You took a shower!


H: No!!


N: You went outside.


H: So do you want to continue guessing, I mean, it's only 24 episodes, we can do that forever?


N: No, tell me.


H: I had sugar in my coffee.


N: But you always have sugar in your coffee, well at least at my place, even though you specially bought this sweetener and dumped it in my cupboard.


H: Yes, exactly, because I always forget that I dumped my sweetener in your cupboard. But during the first lockdown. I stopped eating sugar for two years.


N: Look what kind of charming things everyone did during the lockdown like not eating sugar, and there was poor me working all the time…


H: I’ve been eating sugar again for a few months but I did not go back to sugar in my coffee. I stayed with the sweetener in my coffee, that means that on an average day, because I don't have breakfast before 11 or something, I go into my first meetings with zero calories. And so this morning I had coffee with sugar because I got up and I'm feeling a little bit knocked out from the flu, so I had difficult difficulties getting up and I knew that I needed to be in good form. And so I decided to replace the sweetener with –


N: Crystal Meth!!


H: Sugar. With sugar. I had to convince my body to perform. And then I got the migraine two hours later and then I remembered that I once read an article about the connection between migraines and sugar intake.


N: Mildly interesting.


H: But the important thing is that now I have something in the house that helps me with the migraine and that makes me very happy!