tuesday was my first day of hormone injections
it did not go very well…
first of all, what do I look like,
a nurse?
a scientist?
they have me mixing my own medications!
it’s not that I mind
it’s just that I don’t trust myself!
nurses go to school for this sort of thing
and I’m supposed to do it correctly from one class that I took back in March?
my first mistake, was I didn’t re-read the instructions from that class
if I had, I would have noticed the first step
(which is very un-intuitive):
suck up 1ml of air into the syringe
BEFORE you stick the needle into the saline
what I ended up with was a syringe full of meds plus about 0.5ml of air at the top
kind of like this
all I remember during the needle class
is “make sure there aren’t any air bubbles!”
i didn’t know what to do
should i throw it all away and start over?
or risk injecting myself with air?
i ended up choosing the latter
and obvs i didn’t die
BUT
i had a “vasovagal response” immediately after injection
you know, the kind where the world feels like this
i only read that nausea, vomiting, and headache were possible side effects
NOT PANIC!!!
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