Today marks day 9 of injections of Follistim. It seems like it's become our evening routine. Relax. Pull out the vial 45 minutes before injection time. Wait for 40 minutes. Pull out syringe. Pull out medicine into syringe. Change needles. Expose the injection site. Alcohol pad to clean. Grip the counter in preparation. Tony puts the needle in as gently as possible while I'm breathing slowly, he dispatches the syringe and reverses his process. Then a bandaid and we go about our evening for an hour or so. By 10 I'm so tired I can barely stand up. I go to bed and sleep until 8 or 9 the next morning.
I go about my day. Do as much as I can, knowing that around 5, I'll hit a wall and lay down for an hour or so before Tony gets home and I start dinner.
Then there's the bloodwork. Which isn't bad. It's frustrating and repetative, but not too painful.
Sonograms to monitor my uterus and the follicle production. Thankfully, even though I have polycystic ovaries, only 3 follicles are growing! So, that means the injections are working! We had hoped they would grow faster, so we could have done the insemination last week. However, they're growing slower than anticipated. I go back this Tuesday the 6th to see how they're doing.
I'm so happy that after 4 years, something is going well, something is different. Maybe this really is our time. Maybe we really will get to be blessed with a miracle before this time next year.
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