To set the scene of the fabulous Monday I had I must go back to Sunday. Sunday, after all of our running around and finishing up some Christmas shopping I had an urge to eat at El Rodeo. Keith being the meat and potatoe type of guy that he is sort of objected but thought she's pregnant, I'll give it world. Well, my meal came went down with success, Keith's meal was "okay" and we proceeded home. Mind you this was 4:30 PM Sunday. So we settle down that evening to head to bed and I say I'm not feeling well, I take a Zofran and off to bed we go. I woke at 1:15 AM vomiting so violently all of Sunday's dinner. I finally get myself situated and head back to bed only to be extremely crampy in my stomach. We wake at 5:40 for Keith to head to work and myself to my 8:00 AM fasting 3 hour glucose test, only to discuss with each other neither of us feels well. Needless to say, we are pretty confident something wasn't done right at El Rodeo, as we both had a yucky stomach thing going on and visited the bathroom all throughout Monday.
As for me, I left Keith's work proceed to my appt and I go in get my blood sugar tested only to discover my fasting blood sugar was extremely high and they almost tried to cancel the test. I urge them to proceed as I am already there and do not feel like driving back home, they call my Dr and move forward with the fasting blood draw. Now the order of events was to be blood sugar check, fasting blood draw, drink glucose, wait an hour from drinking glucose draw blood, wait 2 hours draw blood, and finally wait 3 hours draw blood. Backing up, I had the fasting blood drawn. I drank the glucose drink and I proceed to the waiting area. 45 minutes into my test I begin to vomit. Due to my vomiting, my test at that point was canceled due to them not knowing how much glucose drank came up and how much stayed down they said sorry it's over. I then left, went to Keith's parents, continued to puke my guts out, slept for 2 1/2 hours and then headed back for my appt.
We check in at my appt with our usual weight check first, I'm down a pound. We go in, I use the restroom, I come in the exam room only to find the nurse waiting on me to discuss my fasting blood sugar level. She indicates it was far too high and I must now test my blood sugar 4 times daily call her on Friday with results, and go from there. She leaves, Dr. Jurus comes in and discusses the same thing with me on why and how we got to this point and what he thinks should happen, what could happen, and what we will do if said happens. He measured my uterus and listened to baby's heartbeat and brought in Dr. Curtain. Dr. Curtain discusses the same blood sugar issues and also my lack of weight gain issues and thinks I should meet with a nutrionist and also wants me to have my liver and gall bladder checked as some of these issues should be resolved by now and they are and he wants to further investigate. I personally think my liver and gall bladder are just fine, but I will have the test to suit him. They indicated I will return in 1 week to discuss blood sugar results, weight check, and we will discuss when we check on baby to make sure he/she is not growing too large. So all in all, today was horrible, it feels like nothing is going right, I feel miserable, and now on top of a weekly injection I must prick myself 4 times daily. I said to Keith on the way home, I know I'm grumpy and I think I may stay that way for a day or two until I realize which I do know already and I am thankful for, that I am pregnant, I am growing a very healthy baby, and there is a lot of women who would love to be in my shoes.
Here are my stats:
Belly: Two weeks ago measuring right at 26 1/2 weeks, this week I am 28 1/2 weeks, belly is measuring 29.5. So it's growing by the day!
Belly Button: Still in, but as last posted, I expect it to "pop" any day!
Strech Marks: Same few, no worries though.
Weight Gain: -1 pound totaling 9 pounds so far. :(
Boy/Girl: Still unknown!
Feeling: I don't want to go there at the moment, I think you get the jist from what's posted above.
Cravings: NONE
Sleep: Egh, somewhat okay, sometimes not. Depends on the night.
Morning Sickness: Same, maybe a tad worse this week.
Baby: Measuring a little over 16 inches and about 3 1/2 pounds. Getting bigger everyday!
As I said before, we return in 1 week for a gall bladder ultrasound, dr appt, and blood work. I will post more as we know it!
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