Ready, Set, Poke!

Today I started my injections! Like Laura, I just couldn't bring myself to do it so Thom was the lucky one. I know, I know...everyone says it-"Why not?? You're a nurse! You poke innocent children all day!". Yes, this is true. BUT, its much different. How do you tell your brain to hurt yourself?? Its not natural! Its like pulling a bandaid off yourself and I was NEVER good at that. "Just rip it off", right? Nope. I was always the kid that thought it would make things less painful to pull it off ever so slowly...one arm hair at a time. I'm still that kid! Anyways, Thom did a good job this morning. As most of you know, he is not a morning person (sound like someone else you know??)but he was a pro! I woke him abruptly at 5:45am, syringe in hand, and not even 30 seconds later it was all done. I'll be honest-perhaps it was fatigue or beginners luck, but I didn't even feel a thing. Phew! The worst part was that I could NOT get back to sleep afterwards. I was just laying there in bed thinking about what all of this means. I know I keep saying this but we're REALLY on our way! It's been such a long time coming, its just hard to wrap my head around the fact that we're here. A lot of it still seems like dream-like WAIT is this REALLY happening or am I going to wake up tomorrow, 9 months pregnant, and say "honey I had the strangest dream"?? For so long this whole process has seemed like just a jumble of dates and foreign terms to read about. Its easy to forget that this is actually our LIFE right now and not just something I'm learning about in a textbook. Laura has become such a close friend to me that I often forget how she came into my life in the first place. I feel like we've already been through so much together and this is only the beginning! Wierd, wierd, wierd. Anyways, back to reality-whats the next step?? I'll be taking the Lupron injections for at least 10 days and then going for baseline bloodwork and ultrasound (April 19). Laura has started taking Estrogen (her 2nd medication) and has decreased her Lupron. Based on blood testing that she will be doing this Friday, we will both be given instructions as to where we go from here. I'm currently having a battle with the pharmacy because they suddenly "ran out of stock" of one of my medications and failed to tell me this until today when I called to figure out what the heck was going on with the hold up! So, prayers would be very helpful that we can (promptly!!) find another specialty pharmacy that carries this medication and takes our insurance. So, thats it for now. But more updates to come. As always, thanks for all the love and support-Thom and I feel extremely blessed!