It is said that UTIs (urinary tract infections) become frequent during this time of a woman’s life. I have not had this problem yet.

Urinary frequency and urinary urgency are my latest acquisitions. Oh, and also those few drops, when you start laughing hard, or when you do a sudden, more intense than anticipated move – you know it’s not vaginal juice, as that has been dryer than the Sahara Desert, nor love juices as you cannot even remember the last time you had sex because you did not want to.

I drink a lot of water, coffee daily, alcohol and tea a few times a year and this sums up my liquid intake. I could not find a correlation between the amount drunk and the need to go to the washroom. There are days when I go proportionate with how much I drink. But there are times when I go, and then 20 minutes later I need to go, and then again, and I am aware there is nothing that needs to come out, and the best I can generate are a few drops, and yet I go, and I go, and I go.

Unpleasant, and very inconvenient manifestations when there are no washrooms around, or for women whose jobs do not allow them to go to the toilet as often as they need.