…why Menopur is the preferred FSH drug.   Or at least so I assume.  Unlike all my other injection sites, the Repronex one from 16 hours ago is still tender – like a deep muscle bruise.  This is going to get uncomfortable very quickly, since I only have so much room to inject, and 4 shots [...]

…in fact, it’s not all that exciting anymore.  No, that’s not true.  I’m getting the jitters when it’s almost time to do it, just because it’s fun to be doing SOMETHING active instead of sitting around and moping that I’m alone and childless.  But this sub-q injection thing?  Easy-peasy.  Even at four a day.  My [...]

It’s a little weird.  Being an old lady of 38, I have to mix SIX bottles of powdered medicine with one of water, but it went relatively smoothly, and I’m thinking tonight’s (Repronex) will be easier, since it’s only two.   I hardly hesitated at all this morning with jabbing myself in the gut with a needle.   All [...]

Today, my hand was kissed by the gentleman we asked (on a Saturday, no less) to notarize our IVF release forms.  There’s a funeral home across the street from our house, one of the oldest in town, I’m given to understand.  Certainly one of the busiest.  We’re on a first-name basis with all the guys [...]

And it wasn’t as bad as I’d thought.  Three cheers for insulin needles, eh?   Seriously, it slipped right in, & I honestly didn’t even feel it.  The Lupron was noticeable going in, but I wouldn’t even say it was painful.  I can still sort of feel it, but again, it’s not painful, just present.   Waiting [...]

 … well, almost. Tomorrow is the day of needles.   Today was the day of the very kind tech actually grunting in frustration as she rooted around in my arm trying to find a vein that would dispense a bit of blood for her instead of sucking it back into my arm.  (“My blood.  Mine! And you can’t have [...]

 This just might be the first time in my life that I looked forward to my period all month.  It also put paid to my fears that my PMS had started raging out of control.  I’ve been in a great mood all day, despite it being day 1 (which, for the last few months has [...]

This afternoon, I tore my calf muscle.  While walking off what has felt like a minor leg cramp.  A short walk to the big grocery store, I figured, would do me good.  Get some exercise.  Fresh air.  Chocolate croissant on the way.  All good things. to have and enjoy on a day off. Trying to get across [...]

 It’s on!  Patch #2 joins patch #1 on my lower belly, achieving a much more symmetrical (and therefore to be desired) look.  Actually, having written that, I realize that I feel like a toddler –  so excited about her book of stickers that she can’t understand why no one else is quite as giddy with [...]

Despite a rocky start to the day.  Well, not like my day really started at that 8am appointment.   It really started the day before with tickets to see Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart at the Lyceum.  Which ran til 11pm.  Which, since we were short-staffed at work, I prepared for by pounding a triple latte at [...]