That being said, I can't tell you that I was not nervous at all about starting self injections of Lupron today. Yesterday afternoon I started to get a bit of the nerves while watching an instructional video. It only lasted until I got home and realized that the very medication I needed to start injecting was missing from my many packages. Then the nerves went entirely away as I entered full on panic mode. As in screaming "What am I going to do if I can't start these medications tomorrow and they don't let me do IVF this month?!?!?" while running around my house with my arms flailing in the air. Ah yes.....I am as always, the very picture of sanity and strength.
Meanwhile, my poor Scotland was on the phone with everyone he could think of to determine where my package was, why it had not arrived and when to expect it. When bedtime came and none of those answers had been provided to us, I went to sleep thinking that there was every possibility that we would be tossed unceremoniously from our scheduled IVF month and coldly told to never return.
It was a restless night for both of us...mostly because I kept waking him up with my dramatics. But darling Scotland is not one to complain for the most part, so he put up with my sighs of consternation and the occasional escaping sob of greif without commenting on them. Bless his heart...
Anyhow, the next morning he called me at work to let me know that fed-ex (who really should be named fed-up for how many times they have irritated me) had located my package and that it would be delivered to our box that morning by ten. A wave of relief washed over me, and I gushed to Scotland how wonderful he was for dealing with all of that for me. And when the call came in that the package was there waiting for me, I rushed off with a mumbled "gotta run an errand" to my boss to go pick it up.
I grabbed it from the box and opened it right there in the parkinglot to make sure it was what I needed. I considered (for maybe half a second) popping one of those hypodermic needles open right then and there to inject, but figured that would be a bit much. So I took them home and gave myself the shot in the belly with that tiny nice little needle. No problemo...
So day one, starting the daily IVF shots was not as bad as I thought it would be. The actual obtaining the medications was way worse, which makes me wonder why they don't warn you about that sort of thing at the doctors office. I had to sign my life away for all the other side effects and warning....why not this one too?
My meds. Minus the tiny bottle that caused all that consternation...
Obtaining medication through flaky mail order pharmacy may cause panic, light headedness, bouts of screaming and general hysteria if not recieved in time. Be sure to order early to avoid such symptoms.
And take with food. Cause that typically makes things better.
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