Here are 10 ways to know you are having a hot flash…

1. When your eyelids and earlobes sweat, you are having a hot flash.

2. When your family has icicles forming on their gloved hands while shivering in your home as you stand before the open freezer naked, you are having a hot flash.

3. When you feel like the entire continent of Africa is housed in your perspiring and flabby body, you are having a hot flash.

4. When you hallucinate about being strapped to a floating popsicle lost in the Artic Ocean in mid-January, you are having a hot flash.

5. When you say, “Is it hot in here or is it just me?” more than 12 times a day, you know you are having a hot flash.

6. When you can wring out enough sweat from your undergarments to flood the Sahara, you are having a hot flash.

7. When you walk outside in an ice storm and say, “Oh, it feels so good out here”, you are having a hot flash.

8. When you have to resist the urge to fill your pillowcase with ice before you go to bed, you know you are having a hot flash.

9. When you have to drink some hot chocolate just to cool off, you are having a hot flash.

10. When you have more than three fans in your bedroom blowing cool air on you while your husband shivers in flannel pajamas, you are having a hot flash.

Now it’s your turn! Fill in the blank: You know you’re having a hot flash when…