Woke up this morning, got up, peed, came back to bed and instead of my usual "5 more minutes" of sleep before I get ready for work, I checked my blood glucose level. I was weirdly excited to see if I was within normal range for fasting. Normal range, according to my Dr, would be the following: Fasting (first thing in the morning) would be 65-95; 2 Hours after meals would be 65-120. This morning mine was 65! Right at the beginning of normal... yay! So, my schedule will consist of persistent pricking of my finger and checking my levels... like I said, anything for my sweet little BB! But to give you an idea of what my gestational diabetes schedule looks like, here is a rough schedule of what my weekday looks like:
5:15 - Check blood glucose level
7:15 - Eat breakfast
9:15 - Check blood glucose level
10:30 - Eat mid-morning snack
1:30 - Eat lunch
3:30 - Check blood glucose level
4:00 - Eat mid-afternoon snack
6:30 - Eat dinner
8:30 - Check blood glucose level/Call Diabetes call-center to report that day's level
9:30 - Eat evening snack / Bed time
(REPEAT)
So, my day revolves around eating and checking my blood... OH! And not to mention, if any of my levels are off, I must compensate by either eating more or less of a certain food item by measuring how much of something I can or cannot eat. FUN.
I'll be posting a nifty little video of what my morning routine consists of shortly :-)
Here's my FIRST morning reading:
PS: Congrats to Mariah & Nick! Their story is very similar to mine & my husband's... with tragedy, comes closeness in a marriage.
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