sugar

I called the doctor's office on Monday and talked to the nurse about my sugar levels. She told me to come in Friday at 11:30. However, yesterday morning, my sugar level went down to 36. Yikes! So I called again and had an appointment sent for 4:00 yesterday afternoon. Josh was on his way back from Cheyenne, so he was able to come with me. I gained 4 1/2 pounds in a week and a half. Yikes. :) I'm up to 135.5 now.

Dr. Keeler told me what is probably going on is pregnancy-induced hypoglycemia, making my sugar level really low in the mornings. Dr. Keeler told me to come in to the clinic this morning and they'd draw my blood real fast, we'd check my sugar with the glucometer I have, and we'd compare. He said it would take 5 minutes. No problem. Josh and I got there a little after 9, I think, and sat for 30 minutes until they finally called me in, but it was only to tell me that they weren't testing me there, I had to go to the lab at the hospital and then they were going to send me to a dietitian to make sure I get some tips. Ugh. Wasn't planning on spending that much time doing this!

SO. We go to the lab, where they are PACKED. We didn't have to wait as long as I thought, but had to wait anyway. They drew my blood and sent me on my way. We went to see the dietitian, so sent us to some other lady who apparently was waiting for us, to teach us how to use the glucometer. HELLO, I don't need to know how to do that. She couldn't pronounce my name (Even my FIRST NAME!) and murdered it even after Josh told her my name, SLOW, and she repeated it back, WRONG!! Dummy. That happened about 5 times. She then got all worried because we didn't go through admitting first (nobody ever told us to) and she told us the lab wasn't even supposed to draw blood without me being admitted. Josh told her the lab had all my lables printed out for my vials and everything, and she got real concerned. Josh was telling her we don't need help learning how to use the glucometer because he does it every day on the EMT stuff, and the dietitian was telling us she couldn't give us any "health education" without being admitted, and by this time my pregnant hormones had kicked in and I was bawling because I wasn't planning on spending this whole time at the hospital, I figured I was going to still have plenty of time to study for my test this afternoon this morning, and now I didn't, so on and so forth. The dietitian asked if I had eaten anything lately, and I said, "How could I? I thought I was only going to be away from home for 5 minutes today!" She said she'd go make me a half a sandwich (that I'm sure would've cost me $15) and I told her I was not waiting for her to make me a sandwich, I just wanted to go home. I also told her I don't NEED health education, I just needed some tips on how to keep my sugar up in the mornings, when it's low, and that Dr. Keeler had told me some tips yeterday, and that I did NOT want to be admitted into the hospital so I could pay to get the same tips. (Not to mention, Josh was the manager of dietary, and my mother-in-law still is!!) All this time, I'm still bawling. Finally, both ladies suggested I come back another day "and go through admitting first!!" Fine. So we left. I felt bad for taking my stress and hormones out on them, but give me a break. We didn't need to do all this! Dr. Keeler was in surgery so we couldn't even talk to him.

SO, we didn't get out of the hospital until 10:40 or so. Ridiculous. All this for a 5 minute blood draw.

So my morning didn't start off too well. :( And I still have this stupid test that I'm going to fail because the stupid professor pulls things out of thin air to test us on. But I've decided that I don't get paid any more money for a 4.0 GPA instead of a 3.7 GPA, so if I don't ace this class, I really don't care anymore.