The bedrest chronicles: day 21
With my doctor away for the weekend, my interim doc came in on Sunday with the news that I had failed the first gestational diabetes test with a score of 140. WHAT! For the first time, I seriously thought "Common' -- give me a freaking break here!" How many things can be thrown in my path of becoming a mom? But, I got over it and prepped to take the test the next morning which of course led to the grand debate between the nurses of whether or not I could drink water or not during the fasting period (yes, you can). I can deal without food, but not having water makes me exceedingly grumpy.
All food intake stopped at 8 pm, followed with some late night reading until 2 am and a lab tech coming in at 6:05 am to draw my baseline blood level. By 6:35, the nurses still hadn't brought the yummy delicious orange drink to me, so I buzzed them. It turned out that they couldn't find any 100 glucose bottles and instead had to give me two 50 glucose bottles. Essentially they are the same except that instead of downing 10 oz of the icky sweet semi flat Sunkist tasting drink, I got to down 20 oz. My mother told me to "just think of your college beer days" and my hubby wrote, "chug it like a sorority sister!" Ha ha. Oh how life changes. :)
The fun continued between the third and fourth blood draws as I was squeezed in for E's biophysical profile. Normally this would be fine except I started getting really woozy and felt like I was going to hurl about ten minutes into it! I had to grab the nurse's hand and ask her to grab me some water. Of course, this was the day with the training tech who then spent another fifteen minutes practicing her skills. Normally I wouldn't care, but I felt so gross by this point that I just wanted back in bed!
Finally we finished up both tests, and I was able to eat something. :) The best news of all--I passed! Whoohoo! For the rest of the day however, I laid in bed feeling off. As long as I can still eat my milky way fun size bars, I can deal with one day of being sick. :) Crisis averted!
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So glad you passed you the second test. Let's hope its smooth sailing from here on out.
ReplyDeletePhew! So glad that hurdle is cleared!!! Great news :)
ReplyDeletegood news! Sorry that the longer test resulted in an 'off' day... but WAY better then GD! Have we counted down HOURS before you go home?
ReplyDeletethank god you got some good news! um, would it trouble you to throw a belly pic in here or there? :)jk im sure the last thing you want is to flash your gown at the world. i hope you are home in your own bed soooooon! (then i will be asking you for new house pics!)
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lis
I hate getting worked up for nothing! I'm sure you do too, especially when stress is not your friend!
ReplyDeleteYuck! At least the drama helped the day pass more quickly?
ReplyDeleteYou're a trooper, Girl! Any chance of you going home still or are you in the hospital for the remainder of your pregnancy? I've been thinking of you lots and praying that everything continues to go well! Have a great day with those Milky Ways! ;)
ReplyDeleteGood job chugging and great job passing the test!! You go girl!!
ReplyDeleteOh yay for passing the test! Seriously - you couldn't be expected to be in the hospital and not get chocolate, could you???
ReplyDeleteHappy ICLW! I am glad to hear that you passed your test. I hope and pray that the rest of your bed rest days go by smoothly for you!
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ReplyDeleteWhat an adventure - sorry it involved yucky drinks and sickness! But another day down, and hopefully you are still on track to go home next week? Take care hon, thinking of you.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad Dad can come and take care of you. But I am really bummed that next week is the first week of school. I want to be there so much. But what's a school teachin' granny to do. She goes to school and doesn't feel sorry for herself. I will be so glad when the end of October comes and we can hold little E in our arms. :):):)
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