Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
Faking It
On Monday I had the pleasure of taking my glucose test. Monday also marked 27 weeks, one week shy of beginning the Third Trimester. Very hard to believe. And I still have not broken down to take a belly picture yet which is also hard to believe, considering how many I took when I was pregnant with our son. But I’m strangely scared of it this time around. As if flashing something at and taking a few pictures of my ever growing belly will somehow throw something off, jinxing myself. I’m hoping to get over this fear soon, as I know I would regret it later if I don’t.
So I had a 93 on the glucose test (anything under 140 is good)! Yippy!!!
I asked the technician why must I, weighing a mere 118 pounds at this point, drink the WHOLE damn jar of orange-ickyness, when someone 1.5x, 2x, or even 3x times my weight ALSO drinks the same amount of yuck. She said it’s “standardized”. . . Shouldn’t this sort of thing be based on body mass, since we are trying to calculate how fast my body produces insulin and at what rate it is digesting the sugar (that’s what the test is for, yah?) You must know that I failed the one-hour test with our son (got 146 and needed it to be below 140. GAH) and had to do the three-hour test which was tortuous, and how I always gag / vomit when something weird gets ingested such as this nasty orange crap or the month-old-sour-milk-like CT contrasts when I have my regular oncology checkups. Does anyone know why both of these nasty drinks are not based on body mass??? After all, we don’t fit into a one-size-fits-all-mold damn it. We’re individuals with a variety of shapes, sizes, height, etc.
But I’m happy that I passed the glucose test this time around.
Not sure if it’s pure coincidence, but I drank a gigantic bottle of water during the one-hour waiting period to dilute stuff (which I did not do with my first pregnancy and subsequently failed the test). I’m not a doctor and I don’t play one on TV, but my actions may have messed up the nature of this test. Did I?? I desperately do not wish to take the 3-hour test and am willing to fake it if I must.
Is it really bad to fake something like this? Could this come back and bite me in the ass?
