The first time

Okay, so last night was my first injection on my own!

I opened up my pen, cleaned the tip where you attach the needle with an alcohol swab, then put a needle on. First time using the pen it has to be set to the lowest dose and have to expel that first amount into the sink. This is to get the air bubbles out, so they don't go into my body. So I do that. Then I have to turn the dial on the pen to 150 units, that's the dose I will be taking for these first 4 days. Then I pull out the end, this is priming the pen, so that I can actually push the end in to get all the dose out into my body. Once that's pulled out, I can't adjust the dose, so I've gotta get it right the first time, or I have to waste it. I did good! :) Then I sat down, swabbed a spot on my right leg and stared at it with the needle in my hand. I froze. I didn't know what to do! I was so worried about how it was going to feel, that I just sat there. Finally I remembered the nurse telling me to pinch my skin and then hold the pen just like a pen you would write with. I did that and then I was going over in my head, do I go fast or slow? If I go too slow, will it even go in??? AHH! Finally I just stuck it in slowly, and held it with one hand and pushed the end in for 4 or 5 clicks, I forget, and then had to hold it in for 5 seconds to make sure it all came out. Then I pulled it out and a big drop of blood formed, I cleaned it up with a gauze pad. After that. I replace the needle cap and then take it off the pen, and discard it in the red box for the used needles and put the pen away!

PHEW! I made it through. It was weird, because I'm pricked all the time, for the hCg injection and blood work, why was I so nervous? Probably because I had to do it myself, and Andy wasn't even here for moral support! Tonight won't be so bad, and I'll do it in my left leg. Alternate each night she told me, so that I don't get irritated! Yay for injections! I hope that they work fast so I don't have to do this for months and months!