Chapter Two- Morning: Lupron 5 units/ Evening: Repronex and Gonal F 150 units

I've decided that the goddesses of fertility don't like blogging.

I do believe that Isis, Juno, Saint Catherine of Sweden, Tawaret- along with all those other deities- got together when they saw me bragging about my lack of pain and discomfort and decided I owed a sacrifice.... because these new shots hurt like hell.

Lupron kept the uterus nice and supple. Repronex and Gonal- F are hormone injections designed to force my ovaries to produce eggs. The Gonal-F is manufactured in a lab and Repronex is extracted from the urine of postmenopausal women.

That's right.... URINE FROM POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN

No wonder it smarts.

To top it off, the process of actually putting the stuff together is twice as complicated. While before you just take a liquid and take it out with a syringe, here are the steps we have to do now:

1. Take a syringe

2. Plug it into Bottle A

3. Extract liquid from Bottle A

4. Take out Bottle B with powder inside it

5. Put liquid from Bottle A into Bottle B

6. Take all that liquid and put into Bottle C with more powder

7. Take liquid from Bottle C (which is actually liquid from Bottle A and Bottle B if you are insanely boring and are actually keeping track of all this) with a big ass syringe and stick into Katie Dahill's stomach who no matter how many times she does this says "Fuck that hurts like hell." and is briefly comforted by how cool she sounds saying such a powerful cuss word....

Steve and I attempted to do this for the first time last night. Unfortunately, our timing was not the greatest considering we thought it might be ok to first gorge ourselves on seafood, then go see Avatar in 3d at Imax (it was awesome!), eat popcorn and candy then come home at like 11:30 and do the injection at midnight. Though this provided an ample target for Steve- my abdomen was a virtual tarmac it was sticking out so much- it did take us half an hour just to get all the stuff together:

Steve: Where's the paperwork for the website?

Katie: I'm sure I put it here somewhere...no... maybe not... didn't I give it to you?

Steve: I don't remember.

Katie: Forgetful Steve Dahill! Forgetful Steve Dahill!

Steve: I'm sure it's here on my desk underneath all these bills?.... no.... maybe in the folder.... no....

Katie: Forgetful Steve Dahill! Forgetful Steve Dahill!

Steve: Is this really the time? I don't even think that story's funny....

Katie: Oh here it is on your desk.... Ok we need the 2 1/2 inch syringe? Is that the right syringe?

Steve: No this is the 1 1/2 inch syringe.

Katie: OK here's the 2 1/2... wait no that's the 5 inch syringe.

Steve: Got it. Now what are we supposed to do with this bottle? The website has a red bottle, but we have a green one.

Katie: Mix it with the sodium chloride... Hey isn't sodium chloride what they use on C.S.I to inject prisoners when they go to death row..... or maybe it's just salt?

And so on....

Well it still stung tonight, but at least we weren't stuffed with popcorn and candy, trying to keep our eyes open. Will keep all posted about our next adventures.... Stay tuned for the next segment: Sonagrams- coming next week at totally random times every 1 to three days.

Keep in touch all!