Screen Tests Complete?
Today I had to go in for a Gestational Diabetes Test.
Hoping that it comes back negative, of course. I think that this was the last blood screen test that I will need. Of course, there's the routine blood and urine samples taken at each doctor's appointment, but those are old news now.
The "orange drink" that you have to consume for this test was kind of gross, kind of not. Depends whether you hold your breath when you drink or not. There's a one-hour wait time between consuming the beverage and having your blood taken. That wasn't very fun as the chairs weren't so great for sleeping in. Plus, it seemed like all the other patients in the lab today had some kind of flu or other coughing, hacking, snot-laden sickness. Try holding your breath for an hour while attempting to sleep in a hospital waiting room chair! The baby was really kicking it up after I drank the bottle of dextrose syrup stuff, go figure.
I'll get the test results next Thursday (Nov 25/04) when I go in to meet the doctor who will most likely be delivering the baby. I think from here on in, it's bi-monthly doctor checkups instead of monthly...whee!
Hoping that it comes back negative, of course. I think that this was the last blood screen test that I will need. Of course, there's the routine blood and urine samples taken at each doctor's appointment, but those are old news now.
The "orange drink" that you have to consume for this test was kind of gross, kind of not. Depends whether you hold your breath when you drink or not. There's a one-hour wait time between consuming the beverage and having your blood taken. That wasn't very fun as the chairs weren't so great for sleeping in. Plus, it seemed like all the other patients in the lab today had some kind of flu or other coughing, hacking, snot-laden sickness. Try holding your breath for an hour while attempting to sleep in a hospital waiting room chair! The baby was really kicking it up after I drank the bottle of dextrose syrup stuff, go figure.
I'll get the test results next Thursday (Nov 25/04) when I go in to meet the doctor who will most likely be delivering the baby. I think from here on in, it's bi-monthly doctor checkups instead of monthly...whee!
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