You'd Better Lie Low...

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Today has been rough physically. I had an ultrasound at 9:45am. I had a regular over the belly, then an internal one. I've had several of these before, but this felt like it lasted forever. Then she told me to wait and her supervisor ended up doing an internal one herself just to double check things. Phil and I came home and relaxed before my 1:45pm appointment with Dr. Vaughan. We went in and she pretty much gave us the explanation of what happened. It sounds like I started to have a miscarriage earlier, (hence, me thinking I had a light period), and I just didn't push everything out. So now I am on this regimen to bring my hormones to zero. I had to do more blood tests, (my poor veins are turning purple and blue :'( ), then I had two deep hip (aka butt) shots of methotrexate, which is apparently a low dose chemo medicine.

There was a funny moment though. The nurse who administered the shots was really sweet and took me into a small room as an outpatient. She tells me a little about what will be happening, the side effects, what I can do for relief, etc. Then she tells me the two shots are deep hip. Hearing hip, I'm thinking it's the front of my hip near the ovaries and my hip bone. Being scared of needles and of what's going on period, I start to get a little light headed. Once she explained she means my butt, I felt a little better. However, she took my vitals and of course my blood pressure was *cough**cough* a little high HAHA. After the shots, they let the patients rest for 20 minutes, check their vitals again to make sure there are no negative effects of the medicine, then let them go. So when they checked my blood pressure again, it was back to normal :) It was really painful, but now I'm able to sit again.

I will have to go on Saturday to check my blood again to see if my hCG is going down. If it's not, I'll get another shot. Hopefully being just at 96, I won't need another shot.

Other than that, I'm still doing pretty well. Again, I'm so thankful for all of you and your sweet, sweet comments here and on twitter. I love you all!

Day 01 - Your favorite song

Day 02 - Your least favorite song

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"Billionaire" by Travie McCoy (ft. Bruno Mars)

Day 03 - A song that makes you happy

Day 04 - A song that makes you sad

Day 05 - A song that reminds you of someone

Day 06 - A song that reminds you of somewhere

Day 07 - A song that you know all the words to

Day 08 - A song that you can dance to

Day 09 - A song that you want to play at your wedding

Day 10 - A song that you want to play at your funeral

Day 11 - A song that makes you think of your best friend

Day 12 - A song that is a guilty pleasure

Day 13 - A song that no one would expect you to love

Day 14 - A song that describes you

Day 15 - A song from your favorite album

Day 16 - A song from your favorite band

Day 17 - A song from a band you can't stand

Day 18 - A song that makes you laugh

Day 19- A song that you wish you could play

Day 20 - A song from your childhood

Day 21- A song with great lyrics

Day 22- A song you love with no lyrics

Day 23 - A song that you can play on an instrument

Day 24 - A song that you could never get tired of

Day 25 - Your favorite song at this time last year

I feel like I need to explain this choice. You see, I don't know what it's like where you live, but this plays on the radio all. the. time. That's no even the worst of it. If you recall some of the teen movies from the late 90's, early 2000's, (like this fine movie), a few of them had a large group dance at prom, like High School Musical's entire franchise. Well, when this song plays in a public area, I hear the singer coon "I wanna be a billionaire...", then the ENTIRE place I'm at will join in as loud as they can with "SO FREAKIN' BAD!" That's it. No other lines of the song but that. And I mean literally, everyone but Phil and I will do this. Once we were at a froyo shop and I'm pretty sure the workers did this too. Oy...

Peace to you,

"Violet Hill" by Coldplay