I always wanted rock-solid glutes anyway

I admit to being a bit of a moron sometimes. So there I am, wondering why on earth my bum hurts so darned much… solid as a rock after only 3 nights, throbbing every time I walk, I mean, really, WHAT? Every time I’ve done a retrieval and started my PIO injections I have screwed [...]

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No more PIA or PIO

I talked with my nurse today. I’m going in tomorrow for my beta despite being sick. My doctor this morning said if the plague I have is the flu, I should be better by tomorrow, and if it’s not, it’s probably bacterial, and I’m now on antibiotics just in case, so I should be okay [...]

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Club Soda, Anyone? (not for the faint hearted)

So you know how when you’re giving an IM shot, you’re supposed to pull back on the plunger to see if you get any blood in the syringe before you shoot yourself up with the contents of said syringe? And you know how you always think that it’s a stupid thing to bother with because [...]

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PIO battles the Allegra. No, Seriously!

I swear, I am convinced that PIO makes my Allegra stop working. I cannot breathe, my eyes are all itchy, I’m sniffly, I’m stuffy, I’m teary-eyed, I’m sneezy, I’m ucky, I’m whiny (okay, that has nothing to do with Allegra except that when I feel this way, I get whiny). It’s like I have no [...]

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PIO: It Does So Sucketh

PIO injections? Not nearly as horrible as I expected them to be. They don’t hurt as much as I thought they would. They go in relatively easily. We haven’t hit an artery yet (er, does that happen often?). Basically, we’re all good. Or, um, I thought so. I mean, there’s the mood changes. PIO, is [...]

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