Candlelight Shots?

For those who aren't familiar with InVitro Fertilization, you have to do these injections on a daily basis. The kind of surrogacy I do is called Gestational Surrogacy, which is simply me carrying a baby for someone else! There is no biological link to me or my husband. This process requires the doctor's to take away all my hormones and put in the exact hormones they know are optimal for getting pregnant. These are not oral hormones, these are done via injections.....and not small ones either. We are talking a 1.5" needle and these injections are given in the tooshy! There are a series of smaller injections in the stomach fat (or thigh fat) that lead up to getting pregnant, but those are stopped just prior to the attempt to get you pregnant.

So last night, we have this huge thunderstorm. Like the kind of storm where you huddle in the center of your house kind of storm! LOL It's nearly over, and the power goes out. Doh! Then it blinks back on...yeah....then it goes out again! I just knew the second time was going to be awhile! And it was.....

At 11:15 at night, I sat by candlelight preparing my two big injections I had to do last night! Now, when getting them ready, I have to draw up the meds in the syringe, then you purge the syringe to make sure all the bubbles are out, all while making sure you don't lose much medication. I had to do this by candlelight and flashlight! Just as I was struggling to make sure the little air bubble was out of the second shot.....the lights came back on!

Perfect timing! WHEW! Thank goodness hubby didn't have to give me those shots in the dark! Boy, that would have been fun! HA

Warm hugs to everyone!