Here we go!

I just spoke with the doctor a little bit ago...all this is happening insanely quickly. I start injections on FRIDAY. Yes...3 more days. Holy hell I'm freaking out...but so far in a good way. I'm totally excited about becoming a human pincushion...really. :)

My box of drugs should arrive in the mail tomorrow...with what I'm told are VERY small needles. Although I still need to get over to the lab this week for bloodwork...and they tend to massacre me whenever they're looking for a vein. Yay....that shold be fun....I love crying in public. It's good times.

On a very positive note: did you just hear me sign in relief? you HAD to have heard it from where you are. It was loud. And i now feel about 500x lighter....

Just spoke with the ivf doctor about doing progesterone pills (as opposed to the intramuscular shots). he said yes. oh my god, thank god. and how "meant to be" is this? He said he just spent this past weekend at a conference in florida talking about this very thing. Injections vs. pills. and apparently there's no real difference in results between the two. He said the main thing is...old way of thinking vs. new way of thinking. And he's an old-schooler. But I guess he felt sorry enough for me that he's letting me do the pills. I love this man. actually, I keep saying "pills"...but you don't take them orally...they're um...put...in places...3 times a day. Gross...and yet i couldn't be more excited about it. haha. Beats the living hell out of an intramuscular needle in my hip everyday for 12 weeks. Seriously...somebody throw me a party.

However, he's not letting me get away with the other injections (I actually found a nasal spray to take the place of some of this stuff...but apparently it's harder to control the dosage that way). But they're little injections...and if that's the trade-off...I don't care. In fact, drinks all around...oh wait...except for me...no more drinking. Man, these kids better be worth it...all this talk of needles has me cravin' a glass of wine.

Our next appointment is the 9th. The injections start this friday (3rd) and I'm more than a little nervous about this...seeing as J and I have no idea how to even give an injection...and we've been given no guidance from the doc office. And oh yay...we get to experiment on MY stomach. Then apparently when we go in for our next doc appointment on the 9th...they'll show us how we're actually supposed to do it.

I can't believe this is about to happen. Feels like an out-of-body experience.