Five Pokes in Three Days

So Wednesday Afternoon, the nurse calls and I have to get blood drawn that day to see if I developed antibodies after the D&C--it should have been checked in previous bloodwork. So I leave my Speech and Debate kids early and head down to the lab. The girl was young and she did a terrible job. She pokes my right arm, missed the vein and started fishing--I had to tell her to stop and try again. She sticks my left arm and gets it and luckily enough blood because the needle popped out before she was ready. GRRR. Thinking about it makes my arm feel icky.

Thursday afternoon, I had my appointment to get the RhoGAM shot at an outpatient clinic. For some reason I was nervous--I can't say why. I guess I just did not know what to expect. They took my blood pressure which was high because I was nervous. Then Mimi, the nurse, told me the shot would go in the same place Justin had been giving me the PIO shots, so not a problem, and it wasn't. Then I had to sit there for 30 minutes to make sure I did not have a bad reaction--I was fine physically. Emotionally I broke down--it was one more step in the whole miscarriage and it made me sad.

Today, I went back to the doctor. The nurse went over the genetic testing results and there was not a known problem with the little guy, but that does not mean there was not a genetic abnormality and he was a boy. That news was hard to hear. It broke both our hearts. Then came the ultrasound and there is follicle growing--I will probably ovulate but my lining is very thin. And of course, then she wanted to do blood--she missed the vein on my right arm, so she went to my hand which is always more painful. I go back in one more week to see if I did ovulate or if I will do something to bring on a new cycle. If I wait for a natural cycle I can do progesterone suppositories. If I try to build things before a natural cycle then I would have to get the PIO shots again. I don't mind the shots really, but it would be nice to not get them. Anyway, that is where we are at in the baby making adventure.