I was in the relentless grip of menopause, and I was playing a pregnant woman as part of a disaster simulation at a nursing school. "This is a photo of me at a train wreck simulation where I played a pregnant woman," the author writes. I will never forget the day I realized I wasn't going to be able to keep hanging in there. I would later learn that my decision to quit my "real" job wasn't as unusual as it seemed. I told her I thought companies should offer more support for women going through this transition at work.