Day 21 (or day 1 of the injections)

The Protocol tells us the injections need to be done between 7am and 9.30am. We start at 8am. The syringe sucks the liquid drugs out of the bottle and some air bubbles form in the syringe. Mr IVF is doing it. He can't get the bubbles out. It takes another syringe, lots of flicking the syringe and patience on Mr IVFs part to get it ready. There are NO instructions. Instructions would have helped because it was about a month ago when they told us how to do this. Where do we do the injection?

I'm being impatient and am nervous, surely there aren't meant to air bubbles in it? Mr IVF says I'm acting weird. I say I am not. Eventually we decide that a couple of teeny tiny air bubbles won't kill me because we're not injecting into veins. I look away and he literally stabs me with the needle in the top of the thigh. It doesn't hurt. It's fine. I am relieved.

Mr IVF phones me later that day to see if I have gone crazy. No, I am normal, so far.