Hello Rebismart, you're my new friend!

My day did not start out in the best of ways.  I woke up this morning and thought to myself "sweet I woke up before the alarm."  I rolled over, grabbed my phone and the screen was black.  My battery had died in the middle of the night and as such, my alarm never went off.  I missed my train to work, and had to take the bus.  The bus takes an hour, makes me motion sick, and is full of stinky people.  I was not impressed.  Not a great way to start the morning.

My nurse came this evening and was very friendly and extremely thorough.  She wasn't down with the idea of my video taping the injection, but I assured her that she wouldn't be on the tape.  She was awesome!  I took two Advil to help with any possible side effects and she went through all the literature that came with my RebiSmart.  She taught me how to do everything from putting replacing the batteries to loading the cartridge of Rebif in.  I had a hard time getting the needle into the machine.  I have very shaky hands so this could prove to be challenging for me.  She helped me out and we got the needle inserted.  With practice I should get better at inserting the needle.  We went through every setting on the machine, and then came the time to inject myself.

I chose my leg because I thought that would be the least painful.  The nurse told me the stomach was actually the best place to start, but the thought of injecting myself in the stomach freaked me out.  I used one of the alcohol pads to clean my injection site, and then came the big moment. I pressed the Rebismart onto my skin, grimaced and waited for the light to turn green.  Once it turned green I pressed the button - and nothing happened.  Or so I thought.  I didn't even feel the needle pass through my skin.  It injected the medicine, and it beeped to let me know it was done!  It was awesome, I didn't feel a thing.

The nurse told me they are required to stay for an hour after the injection.  I was feeling fine, so I was permitted to sign some sort of release form which said I was aware of any risks associated with the medication.  It's been 2 hours since my injection and I feel fine.  I'm tired, but I'm attributing that to working all day!

As promised, here is the video!  I apologize in advance for my appearance.... it's been a stressful week!!

I couldn't figure out how to make the video appear bigger, so if you want to see a larger version you can go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-wg9UBGaE

Today turned out to be a pretty good day.  For those of you injecting with the RebiSmart for the first time, take it from me - It doesn't hurt!!!!

~Sarah