Brooksie
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magneto said:Usual daily activities with one notable exception...my friend/room-mate (who is in her late 70s, a typical middle-class American) mentioned recently that she was raised to never bathe or wash her hair during "that time of the month"... one tradition I hope never comes back into fashion.
My Mom is in her mid 70's and she was told not to bathe or wash her hair durring that time of the month, when my Mom was a teenager if she complained about having cramps - my grandma told her to stick her hands in the warm dish water & do the dishes, that it would help... but it was just a ploy to get her to do dishes. I am lucky I never have cramps because I am sure if I did my Mom would have told me to get my hands in the dish water also.
Brooksie