15 Jun
43 and my body has apparently decided to just... wing it now. Last month was 24 days, the month before was 35, and the flooding is something I genuinely was not prepared for. I had to leave a meeting last Tuesday because I was terrified to stand up. That is not a thing that should be happening to a grown adult with a job and a commute. I started keeping a calendar in January, nothing fancy, just a notes app where I log when it starts, how heavy, and whether I basically couldn't function that day. I've been adding a fatigue column too because I want to be able to show my OB something concrete. Not just "I'm tired" but like, these are the days I came home and went straight to bed at 7pm and still woke up exhausted. Also trying to eat more iron-rich stuff on the heavy days because I read something about it and figured it couldn't hurt. Lentil soup has become my weird comfort food. I am not a lentil soup person but here we are. Appointment is next month. Hoping the calendar actually helps me sound less like I'm catastrophizing and more like a person with data.