4 months knocked up
Today is 16 weeks, or 4 months, which, as chunky monkey and I agree on, sounds much longer than 16 weeks. F-O-U-R M-O-N-T-H-S. Sounds like forever. Sounds like almost halfway.
I feel pretty good, except that work is a hotbed of stress and anxiety.
I had my glucose tolerance test this morning. I had class last night, from 6:30 to 8, so the last thing I had to eat was at 6. And then, this morning, I got to the lab at about 7:45. They opened at 7:30. There was just me and one other woman there, so I thought, hey, awesome. But apparently the other woman who got there first had some crazy paperwork that took both of the women who worked there to figure out, and no one called me up to start my paperwork until 8:30. Then, by the time they did my paperwork, took my blood for my alpha fetoprotein test, and then made me drink 10 oz. of Hawaiian punch syrup, it was 8:50. So I had to sit there and wait an hour. Didn't get out of there until 10. Made a mad rush to McDonald's, because well, if I didn't get real food in me soon, I was going to hurl.
The test was ok. No one told me I was supposed to bring a movie. Evidently, they like it when they put you in a dim-lighted room and you watch a movie for an hour, instead of go for a walk or read a book. I don't think I could have walked anyhow after chugging 10 oz. of Hawaiian punch syrup. I guess you lower your blood sugar when you expend energy, and they don't want you to do that, and watching dvd's is the lowest amount of energy you can expend apparently. They had a few there to borrow, so I watched Only You with Marisa Tomei. Of course, I watched the first hour of it is all....
But now, back to the grind.
They said I won't get my results of my GTT for a whole week, and results of my alpha feto protein is two weeks. that seems awful long for 2006.
posted by ElliottPreciousPants @ 9:31 AM
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One week and two weeks??! Dang! On the other hand,that's because they have to send the samples to an outside lab.
My HMO (where everything happens) couldn't WAIT to call me up and tell me I had failed the GTT (well, I am just saying that b/c at the time I was bitter about it at the time). I can tell when a lab result is bad because they will call me asap. Otherwise I don't even get a "you're fine" call.
I hope you pass your GTT. This diet is tolerable but monotonous and I'd really like some potatoes and doughnuts right now!
Are they making you take it early for any particular reason (if you wish to answer)? If you pass would you need to retake later on?
They are making me take it early because I have polycystic ovarian syndrome, and because I have a brother who is a type one diabetic. They say that people who have this combination of issues are at a higher risk for developing it.
I hope I pass it too. I guess there are no symptoms that you experience beforehand that tell you if you have it or not. If I do pass it, I have to take it again later as well.
I hope I don't have it though. I would rather not.
the best part is that if you fail your 1 hr glucose test (GTT), they make you take a 3 hr one (GCT). Just to be sure, you know. it's supposedly not a good time. but tolerable... ugh. good luck with it (probably you already know the results... i'm reading your posts in order.)
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