Shooting Up in Front of Your 2 Year Old, Left vs. Right, and POAS

shooting up
this is not a gripe. i promise. there are no words to describe how happy, thankful, and humbled i am to have my 2 year old. i just never thought i'd be shooting up in front of her ;-p

my DH had to work very late last night, so that left me to do my PIO shot with "assistance". typically, i do this shot while DH is giving DD a bath. well, i spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to keep DD occupied while i attended to business, and i decided to move my shot up about 20 minutes and dinner back about 30 minutes. that way, i could do my shot while she was busy gnoshing on her organic spaghetti ohs.

it worked except that i had to prep the shot and made the mistake of doing that at the dinner table. i have to say that DD was quite fascinated and had fun trying to steal various items from me (don't worry, i kept the needles on the counter near the table and FAR away from her). as i was prepping the shot and trying to tell DD a little about what i was doing and why, it ocurred to me, with a knife pain in my heart, that i hope to hell she never has to go through this.

IF is on the rise, and there is much speculation as to why. if it's on the rise now (some stats indicate 30% of women over 30 experience some level of IF), what does that mean for her future? my god. that's just too much to think about right now.

since our IF is a combination of MFI and FFI, there is a chance that DD could inherit some tendency toward hormonal imbalances like mine, but i hope not. my MIL insists that DD is JUST like her (that's a whole other post for a whole other (uncensored) blog), and she had NO problems getting pg, staying pg, and giving birth to healthy children. so, i'm hoping that this is one way in which DD is just like MIL.

left vs. right
i promise this is not a lead-in to a political soap box. i am speaking of left and right HANDS. um. i always thought my left hand was there sorta to provide balance and symmetry and basically only for decoration, but it turns out that lefty is actually MUCH better at administering PIO shots than righty. who knew? in hopes of NOT torquing my right pectoral again, i decided to give myself my PIO shot with my left hand b/c it was left butt cheek's turn to be tortured. it was virtually painless!

poas
the urge to pee on things is becoming stronger by the minute. it's a good thing that i have already ordered my pee sticks and that they won't be here for a few days b/c the urge is overwhelming. of course, i do have to run to CVS tonight to get DD's prescription...