They're too hot, they're too cold, they're too hot, they're too cold, they're tired, they're cranky, then they're full of energy and active, then back to the hot flashes. The Galactics deal with a human female in menopause for the first time. -- Anon Guest
Human Keefe had been fiddling with her livesuit environmental controls very often of late. Her personal environment had the same adjustments from cooling things down to warming things up. Her personal energy levels waxed and waned without pattern or reason. On one occasion needing to sleep for almost the whole of a 24-hour cycle.
Companion Threx all but dragged her to Medical to see if she was ill.
"I'm not sick," sighed Keefe. "This is perfectly normal for this stage of my life. Unfortunately." She puffed and blew and adjusted her livesuit to cool her off again. "I thought I'd love it when it happened, but nope! Another patch of hell. Huzzah."
Threx continued to usher her into the Medical bay, where Medik Tusin scanned her, did blood tests, and announced, "This is normal. Well. Normal for Humans."
"Human Uyn never had this problem and he was also a mature Human," objected Threx.
"Human Uyn was a dude," said Keefe. "Dudes don't get menopause. Most dudes don't get menopause."
"The best I can do is," Medik Tusin checked his notes, "a hormone regulator that will ease the process, but--"
"Gimmie gimmie gimmie gimmie gimmie," demanded Keefe. "Anything has to be better than waking up every three hours in either a pool of sweat or tooth-chattering chills."
"Ah," said Threx, finally understanding. "This is why Humans go insane."
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