 it's go time first ultrasound well not the first but one of many one of many let's start this process the first yeah it's a good luck not fun is that what you're supposed to say in this situation not at all good luck cheerio so we're here at the fertility clinic in winnipeg again and she's gotta go in for an ultrasound this is literally the beginning of go time for the IVF procedure that we're we're going for right now next week we'll be here every second day or so I'll let her explain everything to you when she comes back down but I gotta wait in the car because I'm still not allowed to go up there with her and my thoughts on that are irrelevant but I have to wait down here so I guess I could go into a little bit of it this week is when she starts injections we have to give she's gonna give herself or I've got to give her needles every day one of us is she's got to take a needle every day and it's gonna be really rough on her body so she's got I think two weeks off work now which is really awesome that her work is really helping us out my work is really helping us out as well I don't have every day off but work knows that I'm going to be needing a lot of time off because I'm going to be driving her in for all of these appointments so it could be every second day or it will be every second day I just don't know if it'll be like Monday Wednesday Friday or if it will be Tuesday Thursday Saturday that's something we'll all figure out but welcome everybody it's Sunday today I'm glad you're here with us don't forget to hit the the like button I know this isn't a regular vlog on my channel we won't be doing any trucking today but we'll be filling you in on our journey to become parents here if you're new to the channel we have gone through several rounds of IUI if you're familiar with this stuff and now is time for IVF trying to have our first baby Chevy diesel you guys concerned about mom who wants the needles so we jumped ahead uh till we got home we uh talked to you guys outside the fertility clinic there and from there we had to go and pick up uh prescriptions these are the big ones what are uh injectable drugs not the fun kind though not the fun kind at all uh I'm kind of glad I don't got to go through this but I feel bad for feeling that way he bought me a blizzard made up for it and some clothing blizzards fix fix everything so uh let's show them what we all got here all right so these here is that right no that's different these are the first ones so she's got to take two needles I'll let you explain this is my menopur which I believe is like a menopause drug that uh so we're going to take this liquid and use two of these powdered vials and mix it together in a syringe so this is one day this is one day and then we have another pack this is for a total of five days right for a total of five days and then I go back for an ultrasound okay the results of the ultrasound I had 14 follicles which is a decent number it's not as many as I hope for but you have too many it gets extra painful and I'm already dying so yeah so hopefully they all respond to this medication and they get them all during the surgery this is the first needle that you take every day for five days right right okay so some liquid and some powder that gets dissolved into them and those are the syringes yeah the syringes but where's the needle just for medical waste but that's what this is for the sharps container biohazard you're a biohazard now you're a biohazard you're putting that stuff in you're gonna start glowing lime green so after she takes the first syringe the first needle then this is the second needle and this comes in like a pre-packaged syringe and everything that's very technical I'm lost guys I can't find the actual needles for this are they not in these packages like it's not included in that somewhere no oh wait oh there they are found them crisis averted averted I was gonna say the same thing we've been married for a while yeah okay I found the needles okay um so where are you gonna where do you put them uh show the just below the navel line so right around here and never in the same spot so like an inch per each day so awesome bruises but no big deal I'm not scared of needles I hope none of you are either if you are squeamish turn away yeah we're gonna we're gonna show ourselves well I don't know if you're gonna do it I'm gonna do it I'll do one you can do one okay this will be fun I kind of I kind of want to do one we're bonding so we are gonna show the needles and uh as they're being injected into her on her stomach so like she was saying if you don't like needles just a heads up there's gonna be needles coming out though I don't think like I'm not drawing back and there shouldn't be any blood if there is it'll literally be the tiniest little dot after I pull out the needle but it shouldn't be anything to write home about especially with trucker Josh he gets squeamish with large amounts of human blood just human blood I don't like human blood it's supposed to be inside the body it doesn't belong outside the body so uh if you're wondering for those of you are wondering what this all costs for these whatever you call these things for all of this it was about $2,200 yes and it's just for five days just for five days yeah and there will be more yet so that's not it it's $2,200 plus there's more next week but we have to wait wait till then yeah ultrasound and then I'm on I think just this one after that okay possibly a different dosage and for the procedure of all of these ultrasounds and the uh harvesting of going in to get the eggs the surgery everything up until what they call the transfer where they actually implant the blastocyst everything up to their cost well $8,820 Canadian here in Manitoba for that and we there's a really good tax program in Manitoba so we actually get a lot of that back uh when we claim our taxes next year so that'll help quite a bit I don't know what I'm doing I don't know what I'm doing all right okay so you know what maybe if I just take out what I need and then it won't seem so overwhelming okay we've never done this before guys you are learning as we are learning this is a very overwhelming process and aside from my one cousin and his wife who did this years ago I don't have anybody to ask about this and she barely remembers the process because it's been a while we didn't film the first ones we wanted to get a good grip of how everything worked before filming ourselves doing it it would have been very embarrassing the first night I think I was more stressed out than she was there was a bit of anxiety involved but yeah we'll go through all of the stuff she's got to uh she's got to do it she's got two needles she's got to take once a day for five days and then we go back and get more yeah yesterday was successful though I have 14 follicles ready to grow so hopefully they all take I know the likelihood of that happening is not very large but uh hopefully the more the the merrier it would be great if 14 would make it so I'd be like 14 eggs and then they would try to fertilize all 14 but first they got to get them out though yeah there's a surgery and that surgery is next week right probably end of next week or so uh mid april sometime yeah we're filming what is it the fourth fifth fourth fourth so about a week and a half away I think yeah alcohol swabs I just washed my hands uh we'll do this one first and what's that you got there metal purr so there's three vials for every day right yeah one liquid two powder take half the liquid and mix it into both powders and then that'll be one needle keep in mind not every fertility clinic uses the same drugs and stuff and everybody's body responds differently and who knows if this doesn't work they might change it up for me but hopefully it does because I'd really rather not do this again so what are these needles doing uh I just keeping my uh eggs from dying off making them grow going against nature and it's regulating your uh cycle too right is that what these are doing or is that next month no nothing will regulate my cycle I don't think um it'll keep me they'll put me on something to keep me from ovulating I think oh okay so that the eggs don't release because they need to get them out before they release right but uh yeah we'll we'll see what all goes on there buddy you can't be a part of this I'm sorry I know you're a part of everything not this one buddy no dogs allowed gotta keep it all clean here okay let's uh okay I need q-cap right so first of all pop these babies off they should break off like that they don't break off don't take it alcohol swab those bad boys and let them dry you never know what got onto them in the factory hopefully nothing medical supplies factory should be sterile but uh you never do know that's the the needle just the syringe the needles right here this is just this yeah so right q-cap so this is a nifty little device I know uh in the video they didn't actually have this in the video explaining how to do this so this might be a new thing I don't know but uh basically it just goes on here like a needle oh let's squirt it a little a little violent um good thing I don't need at all um but yeah this is just to help you get everything out of the vials basically ml yeah cc ml and that should be half of that vial yes exactly let's try to get all the air out we got enough where am I so frustrating because this plunder it uh oh yeah I got enough okay because it goes if you let go of it it just automatically goes up to the top and squirts everything out it's very frustrating all right so now I gotta dissolve that powder powder number one don't shake it because that creates more bubbles but gently swirl it and now it fills on its own kind of with a little bit of assistance until you get a little pocket of air in there right so you can push that arrow later yeah yeah exactly number two oh whoa whoa whoa there we go that's the end of that now we screw the needle on what's that supposed to take the cap off first you pull the cap straight up there we go you ready yeah saw a drip okay shabby no go all right you'll see the spots from yesterday they're so hard to see you open that for me all right where should we go today maybe right here you said about an inch away from the other site thankfully you just grab your fat if you have any I don't know problems pinch one down one to go so that was the complicated one that we actually have to mix ourselves the next one's actually like ready to go pretty much so much easier I don't know why they all can't be like that but I guess it has to stay in powder form until it's ready to be injected or something I know that was probably painful for some of you to watch but like I get so overwhelmed by that one I just why can't they make it so much simpler like this gonal F pen also this one kind of hurts when it goes in I don't know if it's the thickness of the liquid or if I go too slow or too deep I don't know I'm not a nurse and I'm not an expert but this one's sort of more like an epi pen yeah no not like an epi pen like a insulin insulin but I myself have never seen an insulin it just looks like an epi pen to me at first glance this is it it literally has a little pen thingy on the top here so it's like a pen there's a needle on there and then you can judge to see how much you're actually giving yourself just like it's zero there now you can set to how much actually goes in all kinds of different dosages you just turn the little and we'll show you and then you can reuse it with different needle obviously but you can reuse the pen all righty so that's the medicine in there and then you just put a new needle on this thing every time it's really convenient I wish that the other one was just like this one give her a wipe got a new needle here don't ever overturn you just want it on there firmly but not to the point where it's gonna be hard to take off and then my dosage there's a little window there my dosage is 225 see there's all kinds of different numbers here and 225 that's me so it's ready to go now hey i have to prime it because it's the second use believe so yeah oh yeah because i already see the little droplet in the cap okay diesel can you go here for a second thank you for the kiss very sharp objects but extremely small so the needles themselves don't hurt it's more like the liquid going in that kind of hurts and that's the part that really causes the bruising okay so a fresh alcohol swab again and then don't forget to hold it for five seconds yes yeah you got to push it in and it administers on its own and uh don't let go of the planter until the needle is already out of you too and hold it in there for a little bit so don't escort now okay where should we uh put another call this my Easter egg basket because i'm gonna be full of little purple Easter eggs it's almost Easter whereabouts maybe here yeah let's go there have a pattern going on by the end of the week i bruised so easily not everybody bruises this bad but i know most people get some all right okay and then you did not feel good no that doesn't feel good at all no different than yesterday a little more sensitive i guess yesterday that one didn't hurt at all you said no what would it do describe the pain and what is it like a burning feeling a little bit of burning a little bit of pressure just pinchy pinchy not crinkly was it the liquid that where was it the needle i think i put the needle in at a little bit of an angle and i know i'm not supposed to do that and i realized it as it was going in i think it's the liquid too okay and this one yesterday left like an instant bruise yeah sure enough this one too okay i don't know it's probably painful for nurses or people who have done this before to watch like oh my gosh she has no idea what she's doing no she doesn't oh and you're supposed to check the window to make sure it's at zero once you're done and it was yeah okay so the whole dose made it in so this is the second time so she's got three more before we go back for another ultrasound yep and then yeah Friday morning yeah actually we're going there Friday morning right and this would be for Friday evening right no because we did Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday there's a Friday morning we go in okay well you saw it here on trucker drosh vlogs IVF injections hopefully we don't have to get smoothed this and you subscribe to my channel and i'm sure you did not suspect to be learning about this so there you go i surprised you truckers have lives and wives too yeah it's all part of this trucker's life and so far your body has been handling it all right nights so for the first dose for the first day you hadn't really noticed anything big just it's strange i can't find it on any websites i had a really really weird uh like pulsating twitch in my muscle right in the center of my abdomen lower abdomen all day off and on actually started last night in my sleep and it doesn't hurt or anything it's just weird and it looks like somebody's trying to punch their way out it's really weird but i couldn't find it on any of the websites so it must just be me being weird i don't know but uh that and one what like two hour long emotional breakdown other than that it's been fine thankfully i was alone so i didn't take it out on anybody so that was that was our IVF injection experience well mostly her experience i watched and and cringed a little bit because it it's it's a lot of stuff that her body's got to go through and that i can't imagine but women are pretty awesome aren't they they can make babies in there it's crazy if you think about it like man i can never do that i will never know what that feels like or anything i'll never know what it's like just pee standing up so it's pretty awesome it's pretty awesome there you go not gonna lie one is pretty cool you go anywhere the world is our urinal it's fantastic thanks for hanging out with us today and uh tagging along on our journey maybe we'll show it to you guys again once we get better at this yeah we better and quicker at it by the end of the week we'll show you my the Easter basket of eggs the bruises hurt a little bit they're a little bit firm a little bit tender especially when i'm doing dishes and stuff and i rub up against the counter super painful it's not like a excruciating pain not currently well we'll keep you guys updated and next weekend we go in for another appointment so we'll take you along then too let you know how it goes see you tomorrow