Part 2

This part of my story reminds me of my minister’s sermon Sunday past on how to pray…he referenced calling on the Lord over and over, until you get an answer…

….And so we prayed…and we asked for guidance.  We asked for a sign of what to expect next, what to do next.  Finally, I spoke to my primary care doctor, and she informed me, that I was of course welcomed to try, but that I needed to understand that at the first sign of symptoms, I needed to purchase a pregnancy test, and if it came back positive, then I had to get in to see her ASAP because all of my blood pressure pills are considered toxic, and I would have to get confirmation from her, and then she would in fact change all of my meds—why didn’t she just change them you may ask? Because blood pressure is tricky, and when you are on medication that is working, doctors do not like to change it unless they medically have to.

So I went home, and I thought about it. How would I know, how could I know when or if I ovulated?  I mean…I do ovulate, right? I mean, I think so? Well, I would hope I do if I’m having a cycle each month. So we…well, I…got an app.  You know how all of those commercials for Apple always say, “there’s an app for that?” Well, ‘whadaya’ know? There really IS an app for that!  And, it was FREE, so I downloaded it to my iPhone, and began charting my cycle.  From previous experience, I have always crudely scribbled down beginning and ending dates for my cycle on my calendar, but I had never really paid any attention to them previously.

Well, after plugging in the data, we looked at the app, and my cycle really was like clock-work.  It may not have come on the exact same day each month, but the days within the cycle, were identical.
Once we had nailed that my cycles were on time like a steady a paycheck, we knew we needed to figure out days of fertility.  Now, you can pay 40 bucks for a kit that will tell you that, or you can refer back to your handy dandy app to help you pinpoint this data—I’m an educator, I ‘ain’t’ got an extra 40 bucks, so I went back to the app!

When I went back and looked over the data, I noticed there were different colors on the monthly chart, and one day was marked with a flower each month.  I went into the settings of the app to figure out the legend of colors and symbols, and then I realized that blue was for my cycle, yellow was for the fertile time of the month (who knew you are actually fertile for 7 whole days?), and the flower, was the indicator that this was the day you should ovulate based on the data entered with cycle begins and end dates...