James,

You’ve hit on my very favorite poet and poem!   

Kermie, they don’t proof newspaper articles at all any more, and that’s true in many magazines as well.  The idea that editors use to do that has totally disappeared…frustrating.

When we lose any young person to death it seems such a loss of potential that might have changed his/her corner of the world. 

Though I understand the risks, my siblings and I lived through a mother who had none after she had a hysterectomy back in the 60s by a foreign born doctor.  She had many awful ups and downs physically along with an emotion roller coaster that made her impossible to live.  When she finally got hormones we all saw the immediate change in her health.  

I had it when I began perimenopause in my midthirties I also experienced severe depression and was put on hormones as well.  It was a life saver! My doctor took me off of it after a few years when things seemed to even out.  

I am not saying were good or terrible - all I am saying is there are many of us who expereinced something that needed medical help and I hope that the researchers can find something natural and much less dangerous because it was miserable wihout the hormones.