I'm on steroids!

So this morning was my first steroid injection. First of all I had to go to the Labor and Delivery floor of the hospital to have it administered by a nurse. I was under the impression that they would just hit me with the shot and I'd be on my way. Boy was I wrong.

I actually had to be admitted to the hospital, given my own room, and then the baby had to be monitored for two hours. She wasn't really happy about that. She kept kicking the monitor and then moving away from it. So poor Malone had to sit there the entire time chasing her with the monitor while the nurse filled out all the paperwork.

After laying propped on my side for two hours they finally gave me the injection. Holy Hades it hurt! But I survived. Tomorrow I go in for the second injection. The nurse reassured me that it shouldn't be such a complicated process this time. Wednesday I go in for the 3 hour glucose tolerance test. I can already tell you that I'm going to be very tired of being poked and prodded by the time this week is over. This little girl is so worth it though!!! As my dad so eloquently put it, "Well, she might come out looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but she should be ok and that's what matters."