Laura Dowling

And actually, it could all be related to the fact that she's got no oestrogen left in her body.

So that's one thing.

Sorry.

Yeah, and we wouldn't have had any issues talking about it either.

It's really only relatively recently that the menopause conversation has really happened, particularly in Ireland.

And I absolutely, it's brilliant that it has and we need to keep talking about it to keep it in people's minds.

But yes, absolutely, because the default in medicine has been your average man.

Yes.

Even the books, even medical books, it's a male body.

Sure, the Greek word for uterus is hystra.

That's the word.

Hysterical.

Yeah, I really do, because I see how women have suffered throughout the years, be it in my, you know, in my practice as a pharmacist, but also my granny, you know, lived up the north.

She was a Catholic woman who had 10 live births.

I think she had two stillbirths.

You know, the toll that that would have taken on her body.

She died at 53 from breast cancer and left behind a 12-year-old boy among, you know, he was the youngest.

So...

I can only imagine what she went through.

This was your uncle who came living with you as a result.