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| This is me being happy that my headaches weren't as horrible today. |
What an emotional day for my shots! My morning shot went okay. It was weird twisting the dial when the needle was in my skin to completely inject it.
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| Getting my morning shot ready. I made sure I had the Follistim video up to follow along with while I did it. |
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| This is what the shot looks like. You twist the right piece while the needle is in your skin. The shot has to be refrigerated. |
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| Putting tonight's shots together were a little harder than normal. |
I had a little bit of a roller-coaster of an evening. Tonight I had to take 2 shots, and one of the shots I had to mix the solution with the powder/medicine. Based on what the nurse told me, I thought I'd have to use a reconstitution needle (used to pull the solution out of one vial and then put it in the medicine vial to mix). But when I was looking through all my stuff, I couldn't find any of the long reconstitution needles--I thought they were missing! I mean I went through everything. At one point I thought I may have thrown the bag of stuff away. I started crying because I thought that if I didn't have the needles, I couldn't mix the medicine, couldn't do the shots, and would have to start this whole (painful) process over again. Holding back my tears, I called the late-night number for the IVF clinic to see what I should do. The lady there told me she'd have someone call me back. In the interim I kept going through everything. Seth kept trying to be supportive and come up with other possible ways to mix the medicine, but I was having none of it. Finally after reading all the labels again, we finally saw these little Q-cap packets. In super small print it says they're substitutes for the reconstitution needles. WHEW! Big sigh of relief! Doing the shots is stressful enough--I don't need the rest of this drama! Glad I was able to find it--I guess it all gave me extra time to ice my legs before the shots!
Only 8 more days of this trio!
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| For my exercise today I went on a nice long walk with Seth. |
Those shots sound dreadful! What a terrible experience as you panicked and worried this was all for naught. Thank goodness you are on track after all! It will all be a memory soon. So glad you only do this once and can use the eggs harvested for all your children. What a miracle this all is! Can't wait to see your cute babies! Hope this last week goes smoothly! You are in our thoughts and prayers! Love you! ❤️ Mom
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