If you look in the dictionary....

...under the word wimp, there you shall find my picture. Let me preface this story by saying that I DID have a video for you but with the excitement of mixing the HCG, icing my butt, and receiving my injection I just couldn't pull it off. There was way too much going on! So I will try to break the experience up into parts so that you can in fact get the full effect of what happened last night.

HCG Trigger ~ Part 1 with Pictures

At 9:00pm after several of my friends promised me that it would be okay, I told the hubby that I was going to mix the injection. We had gone back and forth because for some reason he wanted to mix. Well I told him if he wanted to narrate the video then go ahead and mix...not surprisingly he declined. So I began to film with the ice pack shoved in my shorts and my anxiety running high. Immediately I began having issues with the medication. The stupid suction was pulling the plunger up past the 1cc line and I couldn't get it right, so I stopped the video and called the hubby to help. Finally I got it and started the video again. Then I injected the biostatic water into the HCG powder and began drawing the medication into the syringe. I began having problems...again. So I stopped the video and Babe and I worked together to get the meds into the syringe. I switched the needle to the 25 gauge and then decided that this video was not going to happen! Instead...I have included some pictures of the mixing and preparing the needle.

1 cc of Biostatic solution

Injecting 1cc solution into powder HCG

Drawing 1 cc mixed HCG solution

HCG Trigger ~ Part 2

I handed Babe the alcohol swab and the needle and went to lay on the bed. He wiped the area and let it dry. That's when it happened. I had a complete panic attack! I began crying and I couldn't breathe. I told him I couldn't do it and I felt that I needed to re ice the area. He was pretty frustrated but let me have my moment...such a good husband babe is! I went and re iced the same area and prayed to God to take my anxiety away. Then I was ready!

HCG Trigger ~ Part 3

I decided to sit on the couch and put all my weight to one side so that Babe could inject the other side. He re wiped the area and let it dry. I went to look back because anyone who knows me knows that I like to see my pain coming. Well by the time I flinched to turn he had already pushed the needle in. I didn't feel anythng! Not a pinch, not a poke, nothing. I thought he didn't do it right because it was so painless but I asked if he had it all the way in and he said yes. After he gave me a smile and a wink and needless to say we were both pretty impressed with his shot giving skills.

Conclusion

I don't know why I always worry about things. Mostly when I anticipate the worse then it is NEVER as bad as I think. *Sigh* All that worry for nothing. And because I am a wimp we ended up not giving the injection until 9:45pm.