Having never basted anything in my life, I don't have a convenient turkey vaster ganging around, but I was eyeing one of the sterile syringes you occasionally get with kids medicines instead of spoons the other day. 
Talking about ewcm, I once heard that using expectorant cough syrup a few hours before before dtd can also thin your cm, so possibly helping the sperm to get where they need to be. There are probably 100 threads on this and it's probably bollocks for all I know but I doubt it'd do any harm, I've got some in the cupboard actually...
Sorry to hear about headaches and funerals and general frustration, hope your week gets better, all of you x