Today is the day that we start shooting up! As you know, I have not been looking forward to the whole process, and although Monday's lesson from nurse Jamie was helpful, it's still pretty daunting for an IVF newbie like myself. I became a little more at ease once I watched these awesome VIDEOS online that are provided by Freedom Fertility Pharmacy, and luckily today and tomorrow we are only responsible for injecting Lupron. This is the medication that will prevent ovulation from occurring once we begin the other stimulation meds. By Friday we'll be doing 5 injections each day (2 Lupron, 2 Gonal-F & 1 Menopur). It's a little overwhelming of course, but I'm happy to say that our first Lupron injection this morning went off without a hitch! I did the prep and hubby shot me up; Teamwork at it's finest! They should really consider including "in infertility and in health" to the marriage vows. People really deserve a better warning for this nonsense!
Leave it to hubby to lighten the mood and calm my fears. Last night he randomly asks me if I'm ready for the morning and starts playing the LMFAO & Lil' Jon song "SHOTS" really loud in the kitchen. If you don't remember this song from Spring Break 2009, let me refresh your memory...
I especially like the part where they start calling out the individual shots like "Jager Bomb! Lemondrop! Jello Shots!" My dear friend, Kim, from my online support group offered a fabulous suggestion. We should make our own video and we can call out our own shots like, "Follistim! Ovidrel! Gonal- F!" It would be a HUGE hit and would make us millions for infertility treatments. IVF's all around! All we need is a name for our group now! I mean, you just aren't cool unless you're taking shots right?! As Lil' Jon says, "If you aint takin shots get the #@*% out the club." So, from now on we're just pretending like this is one big ole partay and we're in a club.
I went to bed with that song stuck in my head last night and woke up giggling about it too. I thought it only proper that I take a few minutes out while lying in bed to clear my head of bikini models in rap videos and refocus. I said a prayer that Jesus would be with us as we embark on this new journey today, that the medications would help my body the way they are supposed to, that I would have the strength to handle them like a champ, and that in the end an amazing miracle would come of all of this. Hey, if Lil' Jon and Jesus are for you, who dare be against you??...or something like that.
Leave it to hubby to lighten the mood and calm my fears. Last night he randomly asks me if I'm ready for the morning and starts playing the LMFAO & Lil' Jon song "SHOTS" really loud in the kitchen. If you don't remember this song from Spring Break 2009, let me refresh your memory...
I went to bed with that song stuck in my head last night and woke up giggling about it too. I thought it only proper that I take a few minutes out while lying in bed to clear my head of bikini models in rap videos and refocus. I said a prayer that Jesus would be with us as we embark on this new journey today, that the medications would help my body the way they are supposed to, that I would have the strength to handle them like a champ, and that in the end an amazing miracle would come of all of this. Hey, if Lil' Jon and Jesus are for you, who dare be against you??...or something like that.