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Well. This sucks.
Aug. 31st, 2005 10:02 amIncidentally, best line in Madagascar. I need to make an icon with those penguins or something.
Well, the lab called yesterday, and guess what? My 1 hour glucose tolerance test came back high. Goodie. The nurse immediately jumped into trying to reassure me that I might not have gestational diabetes, but let's look at the facts:
1.) I started this pregnancy 20-25 pounds higher than I would have liked, and 35 pounds over my all-time low, which was STILL high for my height, but y'know what? I was a freaking size six. Those weight ranges can be a joke.
2.) My mother had gestational diabetes when she had me- and I was her first as well.
3.) Diabetes runs very heavily on both sides of my family- my mom's side and my dad's side.
4.) I'm 30 years old, almost 31.
So who are we kidding? I'll go for the three hour tolerance test on Friday, but I'm gonna assume I've probably got it.
It's not the end of the world- far from it. From what I can tell, it's certainly a cause for concern, but most cases can be treated with diet modification and exercise. Most times mom and baby are both fine, which is what's really important. And while I might miss dessert, I'd rather be healthy and have a healthy baby, y'know? And besides, there is a silver lining in that I'll get myself right back into certain Weight Watcher habits (like journaling my food), and then when I DO have the baby I'll already have cut out a lot of the stuff I shouldn't be eating, making post-birth weight loss that much easier. Hopefully I won't have to take insulin, but we shall see. If I have to, I have to. If you're going to have a pregnancy complication, this is the one to have, from what I've been told.
But it still sucks.
Anyway, anyone out there have to deal with gestational diabetes?
In other news, MRFH is looking for a new writer. Which makes me think that my writing today should be a review ;) Not that I think that they're trying to replace me (not at all), but I need to get a new review in anyway, and have been meaning to write up Keeping the Faith for ages. I did get a scene I'd been having a lot of trouble with for Accidentally In Love done, which will hopefully get me moving again there. And those two overdue fics... ::sigh::
And FAP is amusing me-slash-making me bang my head on the desk again. Did you know that people who like a ship aren't allowed to post to Can't Stand threads, even if they're saying they can't stand something about their own ship? Apparently it's true, at least according to one rather scary poster. It takes away the last refuge of those of us that can't stand R/T. Because, y'know, the world is so cruel to us that we need a refuge. Whatever. And in her honor...
( 8 things I can't stand about Remus/Sirius, that not every Remus/Sirius writer does. )
Suppose I should get something done. I really, really don't want it to involve my 95 degree lab.
Well, the lab called yesterday, and guess what? My 1 hour glucose tolerance test came back high. Goodie. The nurse immediately jumped into trying to reassure me that I might not have gestational diabetes, but let's look at the facts:
1.) I started this pregnancy 20-25 pounds higher than I would have liked, and 35 pounds over my all-time low, which was STILL high for my height, but y'know what? I was a freaking size six. Those weight ranges can be a joke.
2.) My mother had gestational diabetes when she had me- and I was her first as well.
3.) Diabetes runs very heavily on both sides of my family- my mom's side and my dad's side.
4.) I'm 30 years old, almost 31.
So who are we kidding? I'll go for the three hour tolerance test on Friday, but I'm gonna assume I've probably got it.
It's not the end of the world- far from it. From what I can tell, it's certainly a cause for concern, but most cases can be treated with diet modification and exercise. Most times mom and baby are both fine, which is what's really important. And while I might miss dessert, I'd rather be healthy and have a healthy baby, y'know? And besides, there is a silver lining in that I'll get myself right back into certain Weight Watcher habits (like journaling my food), and then when I DO have the baby I'll already have cut out a lot of the stuff I shouldn't be eating, making post-birth weight loss that much easier. Hopefully I won't have to take insulin, but we shall see. If I have to, I have to. If you're going to have a pregnancy complication, this is the one to have, from what I've been told.
But it still sucks.
Anyway, anyone out there have to deal with gestational diabetes?
In other news, MRFH is looking for a new writer. Which makes me think that my writing today should be a review ;) Not that I think that they're trying to replace me (not at all), but I need to get a new review in anyway, and have been meaning to write up Keeping the Faith for ages. I did get a scene I'd been having a lot of trouble with for Accidentally In Love done, which will hopefully get me moving again there. And those two overdue fics... ::sigh::
And FAP is amusing me-slash-making me bang my head on the desk again. Did you know that people who like a ship aren't allowed to post to Can't Stand threads, even if they're saying they can't stand something about their own ship? Apparently it's true, at least according to one rather scary poster. It takes away the last refuge of those of us that can't stand R/T. Because, y'know, the world is so cruel to us that we need a refuge. Whatever. And in her honor...
( 8 things I can't stand about Remus/Sirius, that not every Remus/Sirius writer does. )
Suppose I should get something done. I really, really don't want it to involve my 95 degree lab.
