2nd ultrasound and trigger shot!

got up waaaaay too early and drove to my 2nd ultrasound appointment sunday morning.
i saw a different doctor this time. she was really really friendly and sweet. we looked at my ovaries with the ultrasound machine, and she counted 7 or 8 on my right, 6 on my left. with the largest egg follicles at 20 millimeters. i had been experiencing spinnbarkheit

i managed to get to work on time. it was really kinda stressful, the calendar said i wouldn't be doing the extraction until the 8th or so. but they moved me to tomorrow the 7th. i had to scramble to find somebody to cover my shifts at work because of it.

last donation i remember feeling the same stress. You really really cannot try to work during the last week. after the first ultrasound, expect to take off work for a week or so just in case the calendar gets changed around.

so the doctor said my eggs were developed and ready to come out, so i no longer had to take the follicle stimulating hormones. the eggs are as big as they need to be. but after the ultrasound they gave me an instruction sheet for the trigger shot! I had to give myself the shot at 7:30 pm that day... and I worked until 8pm. so i had to go home and get the medication. the trigger shot was big, but didn't hurt because it was in the upper butt muscle, and that skin is really thick. 

its HCG. the same stuff pregnant women make. so i bought a pregnancy test to try it out. the nurse said it would say i was pregnant. so i did it for shits and giggles. (see picture). maybe i'll try to fool some of my relatives...

the medication was in powder form. came with a vial of the powder and a vial of water. and i took out 2 cc of liquid and mixed it with the powder. mixed it well (without shaking) and with a different smaller needle, drew out 1 cc of the med. 1/2 dose, they prescribed. (cc is a ml). it was gross, though, as i was pushing the needle into my skin i could tell when it tore through the muscle layer because it seemed to crunch through a little. then i pushed the plunger and the first bit of medication hurt a little, and i felt a rush of adrenaline, because i forgot to pull back on the plunger first, you're supposed to do that in case you hit a vein. so i pulled back and there was no blood, so i pushed the rest into the muscle. the rest didn't hurt. and it hardly bled once i took out the needle. then i massaged my butt like they told me to.

i feel bloated. especially when i have to pee. and since the trigger shot, my nipples and general vulva area feels really sensitive... not in a good way.

wow i'm tired. barely got any sleep. stayed up too late. and then got up too late. its been like that for the past few days. i have a bad habit of staying up late when i feel exhausted.

and now my right butt muscle feels a little sore.

they made a hotel reservation for me in l.a. so i dont have to drive up there tomorrow morning. i already picked up the rental car. i'm excited.