Holy cow, I dreaded this day. Our day started off with Andy getting up and making a delicious waffle breakfast! We both were to take an antibiotic every day with breakfast and every night with dinner. The medicine was harsh on your stomach so Andy always made sure we took it with a meal. I came downstairs to him making waffles and out of nowhere collapsed with anxiety and emotions! I balled my eyes out realizing this is not what we normally do and our lives were about to change and we have to follow a strict schedule every single day and I have to poke and prod myself tonight.....Andy was awesome!!! He ran right over and hugged me and told me we would be ok and we would get through this together. This was very surprising to me because up until this process, Andy and I did not always see eye-to-eye on things I would get upset about. He is very hard to read most of the time and definitely does not show much emotion, I on the other hand, show pretty much EVERY emotion. He typically tells me it is not a big deal and to get over it.....however, he is an amazing husband and is right here with me step-by-step. Luckily, it was Black Friday and we had off from work and had the chance of great sales in stores! Right as I was finishing up my water works show, my sister texted me that her and my Mom were going shopping in about an hour....HOW PERFECT! Andy told me that it sounded like a great idea and I should get out of the house for a bit. I was planning on sitting in all day and worrying about the shot that he was going to be injecting into me later that night. But they were all right, I spent the day shopping with the girls, had a blast and had my mind off of the first injection for most of the day! We were told to give the injections between 6 and 8 at night, shopping ran late and I did not get home until after 7pm. Andy and I went up to our second bedroom, and I laid on the bed with ice on my belly. I HATE HATE HATE needles and wanted nothing to do with the mixing of needles or seeing what they looked like....he put them all together, I laid there icing to numb the area with my eyes closed. He was ready to inject....I was panicking, thinking I couldn't do this.......then I remembered all my friends and family, on top of my husband, and how supportive and encouraging they ALL ARE!!! I told myself that it wasn't a big deal and it would be over in 3 seconds! I said to him, very loudly I remember, "OK! LETS DO THIS!!!" Andy was a compelte pro! He came over, wiped my skin with alcohol, i pinched my belly, he injected the needle, I let go of the fat, and he inserted the medicine and pulled the needle out. When he was done I held a gauze pad on the needle hole and felt a quite bit of odd sensations and a bit of pain....it wasn't horrible, but it didn't feel good by any means! I told him that I don't know how I am going to do this every night because it really does hurt.......I then spoke to my Mom and told her that I got through it! She told me that it might help to not do it where it is completely silent and still, I felt like that was a great idea and told Andy that the next night I THOUGHT I wanted to do it with the TV on in the living room to help distract me, he said ok and that was the plan. I had made it through my first shots, was very proud of myself and was ready for ICE CREAM!!!!
