The first thing was,' she lowered her voice, 'my, you know – monthly visitor – didn't appear. I didn't think much about it because I've never kept track of that very well. (2005, Annie Murray, Miss Purdy's Class‎[1], Pan Books, published 2010)

I bought a home pregnancy test yesterday and I'm praying that stress is the cause for the lack of my monthly visitor as I watch the stick that I just peed on. (2006, Tawanna Johnson, US Girls, Xlibris,, page 178)

Once my “monthly visitor” arrived, the sports I'd always played were out of the question. My symptoms were so severe and I couldn't risk being on a team that depended on me. (2014, Jennifer Esposito, Jennifer's Way: My Journey with Celiac Disease – What Doctors Don't Tell You and How You Can Learn to Live Again, Da Capo Press,, page 27)