Flashback to High School

We went to the Capitals game last night. The seats weren't as good as I had hoped. We were 1st row behind the opponent's penalty box so we were really close to the "action" but our view was limited when they got to the other end of the ice.

Although, I probably would have loved the seats had the Caps actually shown up to play last night and had a chance of winning the game.

Here's a few pics:

DH and me








After much debate, I decided not to risk being arrested as I entered the game and left my syringe o'stims at home. Since it was my first shot I didn't see any difference in doing it at 9:00 or 11:30pm.

So, we got home, I plopped my stuff down and headed for the kitchen to retrieve my first dose of baby-makin' miracle juice.

Open box of Menopur...... check
Take out vials........... check
Grab empty syringe....... check
Grab Q-cup............... check
Grab alcohol wipe........ check

And then I drew a blank.

I'm talking "pit-in-my-stomach-oh-crap-I-wish-I-would've-come-to-class-more-often-is-this-exam-in-Russian?" kind of blank.

I could not remember what to do.

OK, calm down. Think, you're a smart girl.
Maybe I still have directions somewhere?

I grabbed my IVF expando-file and thumbed to the section entitled "Medications"

How to give a subcutaneous shot... no
How to give an intramuscular shot... no
Receipt for Menopur...... no
More receipts..... no, no and no
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich.... what the?
Coupon for my next order of Gonal-F.... well, that's nice. I'll have to remember that.
More receipts.... no

Shit.

Plan B - it's midnight on the East Coast. I wonder if any of my blogger friends would be on-line?

I decide not to embarrass myself by posting an SOS.

I call out to my DH.

"T? Do you remember how to mix my Menopur?"

"Your what?"

Ok, that's not going to work.

I decided to open an un-opened box of Menopur to see if it contained directions.(note, I still had one box left from my last cycle that had been opened. I didn't want you to think I was purchasing black market drugs)

"Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" (imagine an angelic glow here)

There they were, all folded up neatly in the corner of the box.

DIRECTIONS!

My protocol calls for 150 iu of Menopur and I kept thinking that was the amount I needed to load into the syringe.

They gave me 3 mL syringes and I just could not figure out how that all translated.

I was completely dumb-founded.

Now, keep in mind. Math was never my strength. I counted on my fingers until I was 30.

So, I read the directions about 15 times and then one paragraph finally made sense.

Solution may be used to dissolve up to 5 additional vials, for a total of 6 vials in 1 syringe.

Ta ting! (lightbulb)

One vial = 75 iu so I need to use TWO vials! Now, I remember!

I felt like freakin' Einstein!

I think I got it all figured out. I guess I'll find out in a few days.