Appt #29 – OB (throwing away my to-do list)
Finally passed the 34 week mark!! Had a busy weekend working on the baby room and hanging with the fam. It also came with a great deal of Braxton Hicks contractions, some of them quite intense. I’ve had to take…
Appt #28 – OB visit (basal rates, low sugar, preterm labor, cervix check)
(33 + 5 weeks) I know its only been two weeks since I switched but I really, really love this new OB. He’s very warm, friendly, personable, funny. And you can tell he really enjoys his job. I get the feeling he…
Appt #25 – cardiologist
As a follow up to my lovely visit to OB triage/ER lin July, I had to visit with a cardiologist who ordered a holter monitor, (which is a 24 hour heart monitor) and echocardiogram (an ultrasound of the heart). Echo was…
Appt #18 – cardiologist
(almost 30 weeks) After days of this off and on lightheadedness, shortness of breath, dizziness and palpitations, I got in to see a cardiologist. My stint in OB triage and the ER warranted follow up due to an abnormal EKG….
Sometimes there just aren’t enough rocks
We went up north for the weekend, up to the lovely pines, highs in the 70’s. It was gorgeous. Once we arrived, I noticed it was a little harder to breathe. No surprise though, given the altitude and my preggo…
Appt #17 – OB
(almost 29 weeks) So I had a rough week (see this post and this post). I wasn’t exactly excited to see my OB, but I was hoping to feel better after seeing him. I tried to calm myself the whole…
#showmeyourpump
If you haven’t seen this story already, I encourage you to read it: Hey, Miss Idaho… Anytime someone can bring type 1 diabetes into the limelight in a positive manner, I’m all for it. Like Miss Idaho, I started with…
Sometimes People are Cool :-)
I have to say this pregnancy, people have been much kinder to me as compared to my first preggo experience. I think God knows how fragile my mental state is at this time and He places lovely people in my path…
What’s That Like?
I want to look at food, especially sweets and carb-heavy delights and not think “I wonder how many carbs that is….I wonder how that will affect my blood sugar…how much insulin would it take…will I regret eating this.” I wonder…
June 23, 1994
Written by 13 year old me for my freshmen English class: “It was the closest I had ever come to dying. It was the 23rd of June and I had just come out of a seven hour back surgery….