SATURDAY June 31st, 2007
LAX to BOM via Taipei and Kuala Lumpur
Sitting here at the ‘Cheers’ bar watching the Dodgers play San Diego drinking Carlsberg waiting for our flight Friday evening. Well, actually it’s Saturday afternoon and we’re in Kuala Lumpur! How ironic to walk into the bar and see the Dodgers on TV! Not many places to get a beer here at the airport in a Muslim country, but we thought it was well deserved after 20hrs of travel.
Before KL, we arrived to Taipei at 6:40AM Saturday. We got of the plane and had to circle back through security. Passed some shops, Duty Free, that type of thing. Nothing too interesting, except that I did have a pretty good baguette stuffed with ham and cheese which really hit the spot with a Coke. The Coke actually said iCoke on it, I guess the ‘i’ rage is worldwide. Speaking of ‘i’ we stopped at a bunch of tables that said wireless connection and got the computer out only to realize that they only had dial-up. I don’t think my computer even has a pone jack in it.
The arrival into Taipei was pretty. Lot’s of green and huge frangipanis outside the airport windows. No piece of land is unused – rice paddies pop up between car lots, industrial building and railroads, making LA look very brown and dirty in contrast. Arrival to KL was different, though still lush. Less density and more sprawl/haphazard development in KL; Taipei actually looked like it had good planning. In KL instead of rice it was palm trees—miles and miles; very pretty.
Started out from home Thursday night at 11: PM on the FlyAway bus from Union Station to LAX. Just gave Regina her shot, and we used the intramuscular needle for the first time tonight. It’s longer and scarier looking than the sub-coetaneous needle, which is the same as the little needle used for insulin injections. But, somehow it was also less painful, and that’s good, because the injections have been painful until now.
There was a little spat between the doctors today. Well, not so much of a spat but we were getting different information. I guess it’s our fault for having duplicate doctors, but that’s what happens when you’re being treated in two hemispheres! The medication we are taking now is called Menogon and the instructions say to take it with an intramuscular needle. Our Beverly Hills doctor gave us subcutaneous needles, and after about a day we realized this and emailed Dr. Parikh in Bombay to ask if it was a problem. We were pretty stressed about this, because if it did happen to be a problem, we were scared that our trip this month would be cancelled! She said it should be OK, but that we should take it IM. At 10PM last night we were ready to take the shot, but not sure what to do. Regina considered going to the ER to get IM needles, but instead she called her friend Chris Cassidy in Houston and he said it should be ok, so we took it with the sub-cue needle.
We also called my friend Dr. David Kauffman in Ft. Lauderdale, but he didn’t answer because it was 1AM! Coffee (Kauffman). But he called back and helped us out a lot by writing a letter to let us take the needles and vials on the plane, though in the end we didn’t get checked.
If we were doing the treatment entirely here in LA, we would be taking Repronex. Menogon is the European version of Repronex, and we got it on ivfmeds.com and had it shipped from London for half the cost of buying it here in the US – more internet power.
Before KL, we arrived to Taipei at 6:40AM Saturday. We got of the plane and had to circle back through security. Passed some shops, Duty Free, that type of thing. Nothing too interesting, except that I did have a pretty good baguette stuffed with ham and cheese which really hit the spot with a Coke. The Coke actually said iCoke on it, I guess the ‘i’ rage is worldwide. Speaking of ‘i’ we stopped at a bunch of tables that said wireless connection and got the computer out only to realize that they only had dial-up. I don’t think my computer even has a pone jack in it.
The arrival into Taipei was pretty. Lot’s of green and huge frangipanis outside the airport windows. No piece of land is unused – rice paddies pop up between car lots, industrial building and railroads, making LA look very brown and dirty in contrast. Arrival to KL was different, though still lush. Less density and more sprawl/haphazard development in KL; Taipei actually looked like it had good planning. In KL instead of rice it was palm trees—miles and miles; very pretty.
Started out from home Thursday night at 11: PM on the FlyAway bus from Union Station to LAX. Just gave Regina her shot, and we used the intramuscular needle for the first time tonight. It’s longer and scarier looking than the sub-coetaneous needle, which is the same as the little needle used for insulin injections. But, somehow it was also less painful, and that’s good, because the injections have been painful until now.
There was a little spat between the doctors today. Well, not so much of a spat but we were getting different information. I guess it’s our fault for having duplicate doctors, but that’s what happens when you’re being treated in two hemispheres! The medication we are taking now is called Menogon and the instructions say to take it with an intramuscular needle. Our Beverly Hills doctor gave us subcutaneous needles, and after about a day we realized this and emailed Dr. Parikh in Bombay to ask if it was a problem. We were pretty stressed about this, because if it did happen to be a problem, we were scared that our trip this month would be cancelled! She said it should be OK, but that we should take it IM. At 10PM last night we were ready to take the shot, but not sure what to do. Regina considered going to the ER to get IM needles, but instead she called her friend Chris Cassidy in Houston and he said it should be ok, so we took it with the sub-cue needle.
We also called my friend Dr. David Kauffman in Ft. Lauderdale, but he didn’t answer because it was 1AM! Coffee (Kauffman). But he called back and helped us out a lot by writing a letter to let us take the needles and vials on the plane, though in the end we didn’t get checked.
If we were doing the treatment entirely here in LA, we would be taking Repronex. Menogon is the European version of Repronex, and we got it on ivfmeds.com and had it shipped from London for half the cost of buying it here in the US – more internet power.
