C'mon, sing it with me now (C5;CD2)

I think I deserve an elephant stamp!

I must say, my efforts today were are a surprise even to myself. I received my script in the mail last night and went into the chemist this morning before my appointment to pick up, what I thought, would be a small packet containing a pen injection.

Instead a walked out with what looks like a giant orange esky lunchbox with medication, needles, pen injection, booklets, needle disposal unit... the list goes on. I conveniently asked for a bag to put it in though (just felt funny walking around with a giant orange esky under my arm!)

In my appointment, my Dr showed me all of the contents of the pack and how I should put it all together. He showed me what everything was and then put all of the medication in the pen, and then popped the needle on. I could feel the sweat beading on my brow and upper lip... mouth was dry, couldn't swallow properly. I don't think I was really listening to what he was saying as I kept staring at the needle in front of me. I kept thinking "Wait... he actually thinks I'm going to stick that thing in me voluntarily?" But, as it turns out, I'm quite a good self-injector! Melbourne's druggies would be proud of me! I somehow felt if I was going to the trouble of all of these injections, at least I could be getting some 'high'...! Kind of a let down really after it's done - like wondering what all the fuss is about and what it is actually doing.

I will have another rescan on Friday next week. Given it's my first dosage (starting on 50IU per day) we won't know how well I'm responding to it until then. Some people need only 25IU, some need 100IU - so we'll just have to see next Friday when I go in.

This druggie's over and out...