10 dpo

My cold seems to be easing up. I'm still coughing and blowing my nose a lot, but the fog has lifted. Much better.

And now for the disturbing truth: I'm hopeful. I still have no symptoms. No implantation bleeding (which would be the first potential sign). The only thing I have is my chart, and the only thing it's telling me is that my temperature hasn't gone down yet. It could go down tomorrow and keep going down until I get my period. Or it could go up. I would love for it to go up.

It is such a dangerous thing to be hopeful. My period is due on Friday and that may be a very dark day indeed. Or one of the happiest of my life. I have been here enough to know that you can't tell anything from a chart at 10 dpo. It's the pattern, not the individual temperature that matters.

Right now, my pattern is on the upswing. That's all.