A Few Things For The Room

November 10, 2007

I’ve been the happy recipient of a few more gifts here that I wanted to post pictures of. Beautiful flowers from Bella and Steve: Trojan spirit from Jackie and Christy: A cookie bouquet from Brian and Sheila…that unfortunately arrived literally three minutes after I was told I have The Diabetes. Mike enjoyed the cookies! I [...]

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Day Fifteen

November 10, 2007

It appears, thank goodness, that The Diabetes can be controlled by diet. YAY. By removing the few things that tasted good from my diet, my blood sugar is hovering between 90 and 110 (it needs to be below 120). So my OB said today that I only have to test my blood sugar twice a [...]

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Day Fourteen

November 9, 2007

Thank goodness, my migraine was pretty much gone when I woke up this morning. That was just too many days of headache for me. My nurses were very relieved that my migraine was gone, along with my low blood pressure. My night nurse told me last night that if those things didn’t go away, I [...]

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Day Thirteen

November 9, 2007

I could sum up my day in five words: Had migraine, slept all day. I had the worst headache, I pretty much laid low all day. I closed the curtains on my windows and pressed my hands into my eyes, hoping that when I’d wake up my headache would be gone. I have a feeling [...]

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Day Twelve

November 7, 2007

I was woken up at 6:30 to start my three-hour glucose tolerance test. I hadn’t been allowed food for twelve hours (no biggie) but I hadn’t been allowed any liquids since 11 pm last night. My mouth was sooooo dry by the time my nurse brought my sugar drink. First, she took a vial of [...]

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Day Eleven

November 6, 2007

Well, I had my gestational diabetes test today. I had to drink a sugary drink (it tasted like orange soda), and then I couldn’t have anything to eat or drink during the course of the test. After a certain amount of time had passed, the nurse came in to draw my blood. She poked my [...]

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