Diabetes (Long Update)

Sorry it's been a bit since another update. It's not like it's been a long time, but because I have so much going on, it seems like a lot has slipped by. Everyday it seems like there's something new and crazy happening or in-the-works. I don't even remember when I updated last to be honest.

Last week or the week before I had an appointment with a Dermatologist because I have this growth near my eye, like a mole or wart or something, I dunno. It feels pinching and is distracting, I was hoping it can be removed or something. He said I need to see an Ophthalmologist about it. I looked at the bill, which I'm covered for, but it was $135 to tell me to go see a different kind of a DR. He could have told me that over the phone in the first place instead of wasting my time. What a rip-off. If it was coming out of my pocket directly, I would fight that outrageous charge. Should I say something to the companies covering me, or let it go?

Monday I had two appointments.

The first one was at the Perinatal High-Risk Pregnancy Center. They pretty much kept it strictly about my diabetes and blood pressure, not much talk about baby and no checking baby. I was a bit sad about that. They doubled my dose for my blood pressure dosage which ALREADY were making me sleepy I can barely function, now I'm a darn ZOMBIE!. They are referring me to a two hour clinic where I will learn about diabetes management and get some sort of a plan going or something. They said that my blood-glucose was 219. They expect it to be under 90 fasting and under 120 two hours after a meal. So 219 is apparently so high that it automatically classified me as diabetic. Especially since I tested for it at about 24 weeks. They also suggested that with it being so high, I might have Type 2 diabetes, not Gestational Diabetes and they will get me tested for that after I have the baby. They also asked me to do a 24 hr urine sample. I told them I just did that a few weeks ago at the OB office. They got all the information faxed over right away. Apparently someone canceled it because the specimen was lost. HOW you lose a large 24 hour collection of someone's urine is BEYOND me! So now I have to do it all over again! They're very concerned that I either already have or am going to develop pre-eclampsia.

The next appointment I had on Monday was about my hand. I went to see my Orthopedic. He agreed that it sounds like Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. I am worried and praying that it isn't nerve damage related to diabetes. I read about this online and how it is often misdiagnosed as CTS. The best he could do with me pregnant is to prescribe a brace for my wrist and suggest I take Vitamin B for the pain, but that I must first get that approved by my OB. I haven't asked them yet.

On the way in the door after getting home from all this on Monday I got a call from the diabetes place and the have scheduled me for Monday morning for my two hour class about diabetes. So my next appointment is for Gestational Diabetes Education on Monday, October 29, 2007. My nephew will have to bring me to this and pick me up, because my husband has important meetings he can't miss. I won't have a vehicle GRRR. I'm also upset he can't make it, because I have trouble remember things, and I could use the extra ears there. Besides that I hate that I have to ask for a ride. This all goes back to me feeling sorry for myself that I don't have a van, waah!

Tuesday morning I went to the Prosthetics place and got the brace for my wrist. It doesn't help much. It's not so painful in my wrist. Really it's my fingers and mostly my finger tips. The pain that was going all up my arm is gone. My wrist rarely hurts at all. My fingers and the tips of them have gotten worse however.

Tuesday afternoon the elementary school called and sent my 1st grader home sick with a fever of 100.8. In the middle of the night after taking fever reducer twice since being home, her fever was 105.6. I was ready to rush her off to the Urgent Care or ER. Of course my husband wasn't down with that, so he gets out an 12 year old thermometer the kids have chewed up and takes her temperature with that instead 103.8. He then calls the Ask-A-Nurse at the hospital while she's throwing up in the toilet and soiling her panties in the rear at the same time. As he explains to the nurse his perception of her symptoms. I ask what they said when he got off the phone and he said that as long as the fever is controlled and not rising we don't need to bring her in. I asked if they gave him a specific temperature that would indicate an emergency and he said above 105. The temperature I first took hers with is the newest kind all the hospitals use. It's the Exergen Infrared Temporal Artery Thermometer. It claims to be as accurate as a rectal thermometer. Not good enough for my husband though, lmao. Anything to avoid a DR visit. Grr. So of course she's still sick and home from school today, still having "accidents". And her biological father is planning to pick her up this evening for his visit even though she's sick like this. So I have that to worry about on top of everything else. Every time she visits his house she comes home ill, anything from a strange cold sore to vomiting and worse. She says he makes her kiss him on the lips too. Which I think is totally weird, they only met each other 6 months ago and I don't even kiss her on the lips. Sorry, I got side-tracked there.

Tuesday evening I got a call from the high-risk Perinatal Center that I was at on Monday. They said they received my fax with my blood pressure and that my DR wants to adjust my medication. They left a voice mail because I missed the call. I'm supposed to call them back today to find out what's going on. I wonder if there is a lack of communication. Did they forget I was just in there on Monday and it was adjusted? Or are they aware of that and wanting to change it once again? I just filled this script yesterday, so I wonder how that will work out. I should call them right now actually before I forget... Okay, called them. The nurse said that the DR had written down that my meds should be increased from two times per day to four, but that she wasn't sure if he had told me that or not. I informed her that he did tell me and he wrote me a new prescription for it. So all is good there.

My next appointment is at the diabetic center on Oct. 29 then at the OB on Nov. 2 and my next U/S at the high risk clinic is Nov. 5. I'm a busy bee!

Oh yeah, I'll start that 24 hr urine collection tomorrow morning and go to the lab on Friday the 26th to turn that in and get the blood test.

I can feel the baby move, like he's a big boy now. He feels so strong and real! I can't wait to see him again! My size has really been making me sad lately because when I feel him inside and I can't feel him with my hands it makes me feel so selfish. Like if I didn't have so much fat on me everyone else could be enjoying his movements and kicks by now too. Maybe the diabetic diet will help me to lose weight eventually. A blessing in disguise of sorts. That would be nice.

I am praying this diabetes is only gestational, because we plan to have more babies and diabetes is going to affect that, or the decision about that. At least for me.