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Category: don’t panic
good news on glucose testing
My doctor reviewed my six days of diet and exercise notes and home glucometer testing results and said that my blood sugar numbers look good. Especially the fasting numbers (first thing in the morning) which are the most critical. In…
glucose self-testing, day 2
After an encouraging phone message from my doctor (“Good for you for going for it!” she said), I decided to keep doing this crazy self-testing thing. On the up side, there is a top to the learning curve. As of…
glucose self-testing
After thinking it over for four days, and discussing it with your friends, doula, psychic chiropractor, and nurse practitioner, you decide you WILL take the 3-hour glucose tolerance test. At 5:45 p.m., on the evening before you plan to go…
will the real salmon quiche please stand up?
Write a blog post about your search for the quiche of yore, and your mother’s inability to help you recreate it. Have your dad find out about the problem because he reads your blog. Suddenly, the old recipe appears: Apparently…
hope is a thing with feathers
and I am a plucked chicken. I had hoped that my glucose tolerance test would turn out to be a never-you-mind sort of deal, but sadly, my “number” was too high. 149, vs. the nice 130 or below my doctor…
glucose tolerance testing
This morning, I took my oral Glucose Tolerance Test. Yet another fun thing about being a pregnant woman of Advanced Maternal Age (and thus being considered “at risk” for Gestational Diabetes). Read the minute-by-minute account of my test here.
not much happens in the second trimester
I’d noticed it at first in the meditations-for-each-week-of-pregnancy book I’ve been reading. During the initial phase of gestation, say, up to week 12 or so, things change fast. Hormones are raging. The brain is spinning and on fire. The cells…