My life as a pincushion

My days as a human pincushion have started again. Today marks the second day of my Lupron injections and, after a little rocky start, I'm getting better at this. I'll fully admit that the first day was a bit of a joke. It actually took me three tries to get the needle in. I think I numbed the area too much because the needle actually bounced off my skin the first two times. Except that it didn't really bounce off fully and I ended up with three little dots on my belly where the first two attempts failed. Oops. Still, once I realized I wasn't jamming the needle in hard enough, I gathered my courage and stuck it in the third time without a problem. This morning was only one attempt and it was done. I'm turning into a pro. And no side effects yet. Yet.

So now it's injections once a day until October 24. The BCPs stop on Sunday and then the second injection will start after they check me out on the 24th. Once those start, it'll be one injection when I wake up and one injection when I go to bed. Needles, needles, needles. Thank God I got over that needle-phobia years ago.

As always, my life (besides IVF) is still marching on. I am so swamped at work that most days I can't even see straight. E is still potty-training although he's doing much better these days. He'll stay dry for about 90% of the day but he's still holding out on the pooping. He's done it for me three times so far but he's not interested in doing it for his teachers at school or the nanny. Still, this is how the successful peeing started, so I'm sure it's just going to take some time. Remind me of that again when I'm freaking about it in six months.

I've been following my own advice and staying away from all those bad IVF websites and books. I'm really concentrating on succeeding and trying to surround myself with positive energy. It feels good to start to have some faith again.