Okay, it's me shouting out that tonight's shot was, again, less than pleasant. First try was foiled, so all I felt was the stabbing pain of a needle "attempting" to penetrate my poor little stomach skin...2ce. Oh - my - nightmare.
So I'm standing there staring at the ceiling (cuz I can't look at the needle), trying to breathe normally as I'm being stabbed thinking, "What in the freaking heck is going on? And why does it hurt like a pile this time? Dang, man, did the needle bend and break off in my stomach or what?" Can't look down; don't know what in the dump is going on.
So here's the deal. Rod tried to do the injection but the needle wouldn't go into my skin...so he tried again...in the same place...and it wouldn't go in. Pretty much I have skin of steel on my left side, and a lot of nerves. Enjoy.
After "regrouping" we decided to go back to the right side of my stomach where the last two shots have been but evidently we have better luck over there. It worked. Hallelujah.
I think we need an alternate plan. The way we've been doing it, is for me to pinch the skin on my stomach and hold it, swab it with the alcohol towelette and then Rod injects into the site I'm holding. We're thinking maybe if he has a little more control over the skin he's actually injecting into it might work better. Right now I'm holding the skin and I feel like he's running at me with a dart in his hand. AAHHH!
Anywho, a few minutes after we finished the shot Rod every so casually asked, "Do you think you'll want to try to give it to yourself?" Poor thing. I think the pressure's getting to him. I may try to do it myself tomorrow, but I may not. Right now I'm thinking I can't, but maybe I'll change my mind. We'll see. Maybe I'd faint! Now that would be exciting. Stay tuned!
5 comments:
Ouch!! I hope it gets better soon! How many more days of shots do you have? Hopefully not many more and they you'll never have to go through this again!!!
Dang and pile of crap! Looks like you need a "map" on your stomach! Can you use something to numb your skin, like Orajel? I don't understand how diabetics can do this. I sense that you will have a positive outcome; keep writing...there may be a book in this! (thanks for the sweet comments about my blog photos! That means a lot coming from you!)
Hi,
In response to Rebeka's question about how many more days of shots:
I have shots every night through December 20th. Unfortunately, that's still more than a month.
They will be different drugs throughout the time frame and the shots are supposed to get progressively worse, but even after the embryo transfer I have shots. At that point (around Dec. 21st) I think I can start taking a progesterone pill instead of a shot and the shots should be over!
So still a ways to go. Hopefully I can get up the guts to do it myself!
Ahhh! Haha, I love that this is going on right at bedtime for me. I get time to think about what possible crazy scenario you're going through at the time. It's fun (for me)! Dang, hopefully things get better. Really seems like we're going in the wrong direction here!! Tell Rod to hang in there- and YOU do the same!!
what great team-work!
seriously, i feel so bad for you and the ginormous needles. i wish they were skinnier and less painful.
i really hope it gets better!!!
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