obligatory update

[mangofandango]

Doctor's appointment today: glucose testing is done and I do not have The Diabetes. I had to eat 18 jelly beans (Brachs) in 2 minutes, which was way harder than I thought - in fact, actively impossible. I chewed and chewed, and still it took me 4 minutes to do! I also felt pretty bad for a few minutes afterwards. But hey, I win at blood sugar levels - I was at 112 and the cutoff is 135, so it's all good. Also I have good hemoglobin, perfect weight gain, various measurements, etc. I am a perfect specimen of Pregnant Woman. My dad says it's good to excel at things. ;) (I keep kind of waiting for a shoe to drop somewhere, but I'm also trying to avoid that sort of thinking.)

Other news:
I have a scary looking sunburn marring my poor, perfect cleavage ;), due to spending a delightful day in the sun yesterday supervising yard work and occasionally wielding power tools (!). I wore sunscreen, but I find that the only stuff that works for me is the horrible, thick, zinc-y physical block kind, and usually only if it's fairly new. I am apparently a stinking delicate flower. With a tingly burning chest.

Ryan's birthday was yesterday, and he is 29. We went to dinner at Tilley's, so I got to have a pregnancy-safe sushi roll that basically made my week. Also, yesterday morning, we had the best lemon poppyseed cake I have ever eaten, thanks to Meg. Clearly, I cannot compete with that and should never make it with my recipe ever again. :) We went to a birthday party for Erin this weekend too, so I am full of birthday fun. I was glad that being pregnant didn't make me too tired to enjoy a party - I had a good time and even stayed up until a bit after midnight. ;) I was fine the next day, too! I am full of awesome.

We are watching "Castle", and then I will begin the long, arduous process of getting ready for bed. Good night, y'all.

Comments

[waterbaby83.livejournal.com]

yay for no baby-induced diabetes! will ryan let you eat honey buns with abandon now, hehe?:)

[mangofandango.livejournal.com]

It is nice to have that over with, yes. :) I wasn't very worried, given that I have no symptoms and the amount of honey buns I ate didn't send me into shock ;), but yeah.

[aparecida.livejournal.com]

Jelly beans? Seriously? We give out some sort of medically-standardized glass bottle of orange-flavored glucose solution. I assumed everyone did that.

[mangofandango.livejournal.com]

My doctors do also have the orange glucose solution, but they offer the jelly bean test as an alternative. Since I have trouble drinking very quickly at all (I am a sipper), I took them up on the jelly bean option. :) It has to be Brach's jelly beans, but since I tested a week after Easter, finding them ahead of the holiday was super easy.

In case you're curious, check this out:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10561636