Spring started a few days ago, but the second day of spring we had a massive snowstorm and everything got covered in white again. Today we're having a mix of rain and snow. This, and my desire to sleep in this morning (which I did) is why I have put off having my second gestational diabetes test.
I took my first last week Wednesday. Nonfasting - the number needed to be under 140 and it was 154. So I get to come back in this week after fasting from the night before, do a blood test, drink more glucose stuff, and then do three more blood draws, at 1 hour, 2 hours and 3 hours after the glucose. This is going to make for a long, hungry, possibly shaky morning. I plan to bring grading and my iPod. Most women who fail the first test pass the second one, so I'm crossing my fingers.
I'm going to try to get some exercise in now. Ta ta...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Sniff...sniff.....
I just sneezed as I was bringing up the blogging page! I'm still congested a lot of the time and frequently wake up drooling on my pillow. Huzzah. Anyway, I'm hoping this is pregnancy congestion and not the bronchitis/possible pneumonia that one of my colleagues has. It's been a bad winter for illness. Nearly everyone I know has been sick multiple times.
Liftoff Guy has gone off to work but this the first day I've had in a while where I can just relax a bit. Liftoff Cat is napping in her Am.azon box, it's gray out but not super cold and not snowing, and I'm relaxing after a busy set of days. I had a colleague from a prominent east coast museum come to campus and since she does research that involves my maternal ancestors (seriously!) I was able to let her look through some old (hundred year old) family scapbooks, speak to one of my classes about linguistic anthropology, and then do a joint presentation with me that related to early anthropology and those ancestors of mine. It was great fun to have her out, but also stressful because one of her flights was canceled and then her luggage was lost, and I was running around doing damage control and not getting to bed until quite late. Now it's done, and it was good, and I can sit on the couch and rest a bit.
Liftoff Boy seems to be slightly quieter and less active over the last couple of days, although when I woke up at 4:30 this morning he was pretty active when I lay back down to go to sleep. He moves when he wants to. I wish he did it more because I worry about it when too much time goes by.
I get tested for ges.ta.tional dia.betes next week and I'm a bit worried about that. Also about my blood pressure. It was kind of high last time (I hadn't exercised in a while and I was nervous about the big ultrasound) but I can force it up by worrying about it. I should try to take it a bunch of times leading up to this so that I relax about it a bit. My pulse is also high, and it HAS been throughout this pregnancy, but it still concerns me.
I sure complain a lot in this blog! Mostly everything is going well and it makes me happy to do things like bringing out speakers and doing joint presentations while I'm pregnant. I'm scared of being put on bedrest! But I feel pretty good. My referred back issue in my leg flares up sometimes, but I'm fine overall.
Liftoff Guy has gone off to work but this the first day I've had in a while where I can just relax a bit. Liftoff Cat is napping in her Am.azon box, it's gray out but not super cold and not snowing, and I'm relaxing after a busy set of days. I had a colleague from a prominent east coast museum come to campus and since she does research that involves my maternal ancestors (seriously!) I was able to let her look through some old (hundred year old) family scapbooks, speak to one of my classes about linguistic anthropology, and then do a joint presentation with me that related to early anthropology and those ancestors of mine. It was great fun to have her out, but also stressful because one of her flights was canceled and then her luggage was lost, and I was running around doing damage control and not getting to bed until quite late. Now it's done, and it was good, and I can sit on the couch and rest a bit.
Liftoff Boy seems to be slightly quieter and less active over the last couple of days, although when I woke up at 4:30 this morning he was pretty active when I lay back down to go to sleep. He moves when he wants to. I wish he did it more because I worry about it when too much time goes by.
I get tested for ges.ta.tional dia.betes next week and I'm a bit worried about that. Also about my blood pressure. It was kind of high last time (I hadn't exercised in a while and I was nervous about the big ultrasound) but I can force it up by worrying about it. I should try to take it a bunch of times leading up to this so that I relax about it a bit. My pulse is also high, and it HAS been throughout this pregnancy, but it still concerns me.
I sure complain a lot in this blog! Mostly everything is going well and it makes me happy to do things like bringing out speakers and doing joint presentations while I'm pregnant. I'm scared of being put on bedrest! But I feel pretty good. My referred back issue in my leg flares up sometimes, but I'm fine overall.
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