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A-maz-ing January 22, 2005

Cirque Du Soleil was beyond fantastic. It was such a welcome distraction to be able to sit there for a few hours and be taken away to another place. It’s easy for me to lose myself in a performance and even easier when it’s a truly awesome show.

It’s always a little bittersweet for me to go to the ballet, a Broadway show, or something like Cirque Du Soleil. It makes me miss performing so badly. I wish that I could just hop right up there on the stage a lot of times. I really did have to mourn the fact that I’ll never be able to dance again. I know the reality that is my knees, but I still miss it.

I ended up shooting up in the car in the crowded parking lot right before we went into the show. It really wasn’t a big deal except my Gonal-F vial was being a bitch. I hate using those multidose vials for the first time. There’s some kind of massive suction thing going on in there as a result of the chemical reaction between the powdered drug and diluent. I injected air into the vial and everything, but the plunger on the syringe still wanted to do its own thing. It worked out ok except that the Gonal-F ended up spraying out of the vial some. I do have to say, though, that injecting 375IU is a lot harder on my stomach than the 225IU and 150IU doses I had my first cycle. I have a much harder time “pinching an inch” on my stomach than on my thigh, so it makes things tricky. Nonetheless, the stimulation phase of this cycle is officially underway.

I am so glad that we were able to go to the show last night. It was a splurge and not something we would do every weekend, but I sure wish we could. Sometimes it’s hard to have fun when we’re in the middle of all of this IVF crap, but last night sure fit the bill. It was like a happy injection for the soul. That’s definitely the type of injection that I prefer.

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1. Sheri - January 24, 2005

I’m so glad you were able to have a relaxing and fun time! It sounds like a wonderful show!