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Updates.

Nic — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:34:09 +0000

A couple of updates for y’all:

1. My friend who wrote this great post about gestational diabetes has given birth to a beautiful, healthy baby boy. He weighed a normal 7 1/2 pounds, and his sugar levels were excellent when he made his debut into the world. Well done that lady!!

2. In an update to my most recent blog, my BG has now got itself back to 6.1. And I avoided a hypo by taking BG tests every half hour between 7:45 and 10:30. Finally off to eat something now – couldn’t have breakfast until the levels came down then got busy with work.

In other bump news…

Nic — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:12:29 +0000

I got an email a couple of months ago from an old friend who’d discovered she had gestational diabetes (pregnancy diabetes). I have mixed feelings about gestational diabetes really. Mainly I feel sorry for the women who get it, because they don’t usually find out until they’re between 24 and 28 weeks through their pregnancy. All of a sudden they’ve got this condition which could seriously affect their baby’s health and they have to deal with all of the fear and hassle and complication of injections and blood tests and all of that stuff we all take in our stride – as if being pregnant wasn’t enough of a condition to be careful of. It must be a real shock…

Yay! I don’t have diabetes!

Nic — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:03:22 +0000

If you read this and took a double take, you were right to – unfortunately I still have diabetes and the title of this post is about what other people have been saying to me lately.

I hate to moan, but last night I woke up in the night at 2.4, stumbled downstairs, ate some glucose, got up in the morning with a 15.4 (overdid the glucose I’m thinking) then went to the gym and had to keep an eye on my glucose all the way through class after taking a correction, then tried some new things with my pump (in relation to the exercise) all day, and now at 7pm I’ve taken 12 tests and had one recent hypo…