I finally got to visit one of my besties, Miss Amber Flinn to see the home she has been working hard to remodel with her fiance, and go to a movie. The thing was she lives in Hutchinson, which is about 45 minutes away and the movie started at 7. It ended around 9, which is when I have to do my shots so.. shots in the parking lot again. :) I felt a little self conscious about it. I pulled off a ways so I wouldn't be close to any cars, but people kept driving by and it's dark, my car lights are on in a secluded part of a parking lot and I'm playing with needles and mixing meds. It was hard to fight the urge to role down my window and say... "no worries, these aren't illegal, they are medicinal!" :) haha!
Still doing the increased doses of the meds + the morning injection/itchy shot to keep me from ovulating.
This weekend was VERY productive for me. I was experiencing a fun side effect of IVF Meds, extra high levels of estrogen, which apparently can cause insomnia. YAY! I got a total of 13 hours of sleep from Friday to Monday, but I am very productive when I am awake until 3 in the morning and/or up at 5am. I managed to paint our bedroom, clean out/decorate our spare bedroom, clean out the garage and get caught up on some wedding invitations I am designing! (Photos of our room to come later. It is going to be AWESOME!) I went back to the Center for blood work and lab on Sunday morning. Things are moving right along. They were able to see 9 follicles on my right ovary! Woo hoo! Apparently 2 were just difficult to see behind the others. All of them had grown quite a bit, enough so that I was asked to return Monday morning for more labs and another sono, because they think we are close to our retrieval time! The left ovary has still just decided to sit this one out. 2 itty bitty follies on that side. No worries lefty, rest up I may need you some other time! Also, my estrogen was up to 1115! ( Great for this, not so great for my sleep, I read that a normal level for a woman of my age is 200 :) )
Austin took off for the weekend to go coyote hunting. So I am left to do my own shots, which was a disaster Saturday night. I went to inject my Menopur, which is the shot that burns ( so fun!), I stick the needle in and see an air bubble so I pull the needle out.(It feels not so great to inject any air) I fix it and stick it right back in and apparently I stuck it too close to the first hole, because the meds I was injecting were leaking back out! I take it out again and move it over to the other side. Lovely! I move on to the Gonal injection. I go to stick it and I can't get it in. I think all of my stomach is just super sore and sensitive from all of the poking. I am running out of new places to stick things. So I got two sticks with that one making a total of 5 sticks for 2 injections. I am definitely feeling like a warrior woman after that, though I look a little more like a pin cushion/voo doo doll.
It's now Sunday night, day 10 of stims (IVF stimulation for those not up on the lingo :) These could be my LAST SHOTS!!! In my stomach at least. Everything seems to be happening so fast, which is quite the blessing after all of the waiting just to begin the process! Fingers crossed!
(Don't let that big needle freak you out. It's used to withdraw meds, not stick them in...THANK GOODNESS!)
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