An update

Well not much has changed. I'm very close to making it through the twelfth day past ovulation, and barring any complete surprises, I will. Still no spotting, still no traditional symptoms that the cycle is ending, still feeling odd.

My current status is that I've had a slight headache all day, as well as slight nausea and indigestion. Also, my abdomen is sore, as if I've been doing sit-ups. Not that I want to think about this, but it's kind of how I felt the day before I got the stomach bug. I'm really hoping I'm not getting that again.

I haven't eaten much today, other than we went out for lunch because I was craving a hamburger. It's not something I usually get on my diet, but I think I've been low on protein since being sick, so I think I needed it. So I got it on wheat bread and ate half. That's it for the day. I think I'll have an egg later when Ryan gets home, since I have to eat something in order to take my second dose of met and prolactin.

On the bright side of things, if day one comes tomorrow, this cycle will have been a good one. Only one day of tail-end brown bleeding (usually I have three) and so far, no spotting here at the end (I typically have at least one day of it, often two to three, and one time I even had five).

I have to admit, though, that I do feel weird. If tomorrow is day one, I'll probably wonder why I felt so odd during this luteal phase. My mother suggested perhaps it is because my hormones are still changing, due to me healing. Perhaps. And maybe I have just had a couple viruses this past week and it had nothing at all to do with hormones. If that's the case, what kind of sickly person am I? Two completely separate viruses, when I'm taking vitamins and eating healthy? I guess it's possible.

Once this cycle is over, I'm going to post a picture of my chart. Last night I was looking through past cycles in order to count my past luteal phases. Well, when I got as far back as April, I got choked up. My cycles used to be really messed up. Here I naively thought I could count my luteal phase lengths, yet how quickly I forgot that before the diet my cycles didn't have a luteal phase to speak of. They were bad. All over the place. All different color stickers everywhere. It just made me realize how incredibly blessed I am to have somewhat normal cycles now and how truly far I have come.

Now I just need cycle day one to hold off one more day so it doesn't come on election day. That might be too much to handle, especially if things don't go well politically!