{"id":498,"date":"2008-10-10T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=498"},"modified":"2008-10-10T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T11:28:00","slug":"gd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/10\/10\/gd\/","title":{"rendered":"GD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s for gestational diabetes&#8230;which I found out yesterday that I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">do<\/span> have&#8230;which I am NOT very happy about.<\/p>\n<p>So I spent most of yesterday reacting.&nbsp; The morning was mostly spent sobbing in frustration.&nbsp; Then I sulked a good bit of the rest of the day.&nbsp; I was pretty much bummed.&nbsp; As if the next few weeks won&#8217;t be hard enough, now I have to deal with this, too.&nbsp; YUCK!&nbsp; (Can you sense I&#8217;m still not totally over it&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>By last night, I was trying to focus on other things and was even able to laugh a little bit about it (well, at least about my reaction).&nbsp; And I had a nice time at our church&#8217;s moms&#8217; group so that helped. <\/p>\n<p>This morning, I had to meet with a nurse to get started on stuff.&nbsp; I&#8217;m slightly less frustrated now.&nbsp; She had me watch a video and walked me through some stuff.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s the results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To &#8220;fail&#8221; Wednesday&#8217;s glucose test, the blood sugar had to be high in 2 of the 4 blood draws.&nbsp; Mine was high in 2 of the 4 blood draws.&nbsp; And both were about 10-12 milligrams (or whatever measurement they use) over the limit, which doesn&#8217;t seem that high to me.&nbsp; But basically, I have this &#8220;issue&#8221; ONLY because of the second placenta.&nbsp; That&#8217;s pretty much it.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Editorial comment<\/span>: I find myself very resentful of that placenta.&nbsp; Not the baby, of course, I want the baby.&nbsp; But I&#8217;m mad at the placenta.&nbsp; I know it&#8217;s necessary for the baby.&nbsp; But I&#8217;m bitter about the whole thing.&nbsp; Dumb placenta. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/bitter.gif\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>I now have to test my blood 4 times a day until the babies are born.&nbsp; She gave me my very own monitor and a starter pack of test strips, etc, and taught me how to use it.&nbsp; I have to test about 2 hours after every meal, and I have to keep a meticulous log of the readings.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Editorial comment<\/span>: I have to prick my fingers to get the blood reading, and it does hurt a little. Also, I will now have to plan into my day how I&#8217;ll get the testing done after each meal.&nbsp; I guess I&#8217;ll have to take the meter everywhere with me or never leave the house. &nbsp; Boy, doesn&#8217;t the next (hopefully) 8 weeks sound like fun for me?!? <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/whatevah.gif\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Next week, I have to meet with a dietician.&nbsp; That was one of the most frustrating things of all.&nbsp; I have to start testing now, but won&#8217;t have much help on what to do about the readings until late next week.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thankfully, today&#8217;s nurse did give me some basic food guidelines since I have no real idea of what a meal plan should look like.&nbsp; But it seems I&#8217;ll be guessing for a week, so hopefully we can figure something out&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, enough of my bitter, cranky spirit.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get used to it eventually.&nbsp; But it&#8217;s still hard right now.&nbsp; I want to spend a lot of time whining to God about &#8220;Why me?&#8221; and &#8220;Poor me&#8221;.&nbsp; But seriously, it could be much, much worse.&nbsp; In fact, at 29 weeks of a twin pregnancy, I should be ecstatic that this is the worst thing that&#8217;s happened so far.&nbsp; Still, I know God and I need to do a lot of work on my attitude.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Oh!&nbsp; And on a totally random side note, a spider attacked me this morning!&nbsp; Okay, maybe not attacked, but while driving home this morning, a huge, fuzzy black spider started <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">crawling up my belly<\/span>!&nbsp; And I couldn&#8217;t get it off me!&nbsp; I had a small panic attack, trying to get it off me while keeping my car on the road.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure anyone who saw me thought I was having a seizure or something.&nbsp; Still, I did finally manage to flick it onto the floor and it&#8217;s probably hiding under my seat, plotting its revenge for the next time we use my car.&nbsp; Maybe I&#8217;ll make Eric drive it next&#8230; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/winky.gif\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s for gestational diabetes&#8230;which I found out yesterday that I do have&#8230;which I am NOT very happy about. 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