Pocket Bebe

I am a member of the Lumpy Butt Club now!  I had my first shot of Progesterone yesterday!

 When I went to the clinic on Thursday for my ultrasound and blood work, I was told the lining of my uterus was at 14 mm and that anything over 8 mm was good.  My estrogen level had a significant drop from somewhere in the 400’s to mid 100’s which made Miami nurse nervous.  I had been told to reduce from two Vivelle (estrogen) patches to one last week but she wondered if I had missed any of my oral estrogen, which I hadn’t.  Apparently the reproductive endocrinologist wasn’t as concerned because she didn’t end up changing any dosages of estrogen and we are still trucking along.

Yesterday, Friday, was my last shot of Lupron and the beginning of the Progesterone shots.  I am still keeping the time of my injections in the evening because mornings at our house are way too hectic for that kind of business to be going on.  My surrogate friend, who is also a nurse, came over to help instruct The Husband on how to give me the shot.  An hour beforehand I applied some Lidocaine/Prilocaine cream to the target area and let that begin to work while I sat on the heating pad trying not to freak out.

Ten minutes prior to the injection I placed the vial of Progesterone in Oil under the heating pad to warm it up and make it less thick.  Drawing the dosage up into the vial took some real muscle power, holy cow!  Surro Friend had already drawn a target on my buttock with a sharpie so I rested on the bed and covered up my head as The Husband was instructed on what to do.  I began to get really scared.  I remembered that he hadn’t practiced on the oranges and the more questions he asked her in order to do it right, the more I began to freak out that he was totally going to screw up and hurt me.  The anxiety was killing me! KILL-ING ME!  I finally just asked The Husband to wait until tomorrow and just observe the first shot for which I think he was secretly relieved about.  Surro Friend swiftly inserted the needle, showed The Husband how to draw back a little to see if we happened to hit a blood vessel, and then slowly administered the Progesterone over the course of a minute in order to minimize the “lumps” that can happen from the thickness of the oil. 

Once that drama was over and done with, I rubbed my wound for awhile to help spread the medicine out a little bit and resumed my seat on the heating pad.  Our family and Surro Friend’s family played some Sing Star on the PS2 (Surro Friend and I totally rocked Poison’s, Every Rose Has Its Thorn) and then I headed to bed with heating pad in tow. 

This morning the injection site is tender but I don’t have a lump.  Later today The Husband will practice “darting” the 1 ½” long, needle into an orange to get the feel of things for tonight when the left side of my butt will then get a turn. 

Lord please, PLEASE, help guide thy husband’s hands.  Amen.

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