Givin' the shot...hotel style

I have a blog post about Mayo last week and us doing the next treatment...it will be posted later when I can add pictures with it. But I still want to talk about us doing Round 5!

We started round 5 on day 5. Which meant we had to do the shot on Sunday when we were traveling. It was so darn stressful. Fertility treatments and traveling just don't go so well together, at least for us. It was so hard last month to be training it to Montana while having to do the progesterone, keep it cold, take it, etc. And though we didn't have to keep the shot cold we did have to carry it around in my purse all weekend so it didn't sit in a hot car. Ever since we broke this shot on round 2 it has been stressful. Especially this time being in Loves Park, IL miles and miles away from our pharmacy and Mayo. I was shaking, Joel was nervous. But it was time. the hardest part is getting the caps off the needles. They are stuck on pretty good and if you pull too hard the syringe breaks. It's scary. And not every pharmacy supplies fertility shots, so we knew if it broke we would be calling Mayo to cancel it all. STRESSFUL! INTENSE! SCARY! But Joel was so amazing and patient. And finally we got the second needle cap off. There were a few seconds of fear as we noticed the needle was slightly crooked...uhhhh...what happened here? Would it still work? I told Joel to just go for it, get as much as the meds in as possible. And it worked! The needled worked, the syringe worked and in just about 10 seconds our fear was gone! Phew! This sucks but it worked! We're tired of doing shots but it worked. And I keep thinking about how thankful we are that at least this one shot produces enough follicles, and we don't have to do straight horomone shots. Another step taken on this journey. We have no idea if round 5 will work and we're pretty much scared to hope. But at least we can try. Tomorrow we go to find out how many follices are growing. Then we get instructions for when to go down for procedure 5. We're ready, yet scared. But we're going for it! Please God, please, let everything mesh, fertilize, grow, create. Please.