Yesterday at the doctor's office wasn't a complete bust. We were able to go ahead and discuss injections and go through the "instructional" training. This way if we do move forward next month with the injections, we will know what to do and may be able to possible avoid a trip over to Urbana. Linda (a nurse) gave us our tutorial and I just wish we would have had the camera. We made quite a mess.
We learned about:
- Gonadotropins and the variety of drugs to assist in the development of eggs
- Properly preparing and mixing the medicines which will come in powder form and be mixed with saline solution
- Needles and Qcaps used to carefully transfer the saline to the powder and then to withdraw the medicine from the vial to administer it
- Properly injecting the medicine in one of the three locations on my body (hip, fat of belly, or butt)
- Proper disposal of unused meds and used needles
I will go into much more detail when we actually get around to using the meds. Then there can be visual aids. For now, we know the basics and I am confident we can do it. It will take a bit of practice to do certain things one handed and to get used to it all but the Qcap is a really neat device that makes transferring the saline to the powder and then storing the remainder of the meds quite easy. I'm just wishing we could have moved forward this month. I am hoping we can retain our knowledge until needed.
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