I don't want y'all to think I'm too crazy - this post didn't want to publish earlier. I found it lurking in my iPod blogging app - and it still was going nowhere. Now we'll see where this leads! G'night!
Having diabetes before being pregnant is not something most people think of when they think of diabetes during pregnancy. Mostly it's a control way into the 9 month trek and most women ge over it afterwards. Me on the other hand - I was just really getting used to taking a couple of pills every day and had a decent BG (blood glucose - sugar levels in the blood) my A1C was below 7% which is where the dietician said it should be... I was a very good (compared to some) newly reformed diabetic. I say reformed because it's really a whole different life than before I knew I was one in the first place.
Now, I'm a junkie... Okay, maybe not a junkie, but I am shooting myself in the leg or other appropriate place(s) twice a day. It's not pain - I barely feel the stick - the needles are so small - that bothers me. I think I've more of a mental block, a psychological problem that I will have to deal with day by day, stick by stick. It's obviously not preventing me from doing the injections, and don't worry about te low low I hit yesterday. I'm new to the medicine so I really was being too careful in my diet, I think it will be fine shortly. Not to mention that I'll be seeing my OB within a week - so he can monitor and adjust dosages!
Just some getting used to, the old elbow grease won't help me now - it's patience and persistence for me! :)
Anyway I should go take that shot so we can eat dinner soon!
Love to you & yours!
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Mr. KPShubert - Pregnancy, Diet and Insulin
Okay, so it turns out (as I said in my previous blog), that many diabetes medicines do not mix with pregnancy since ingestion and digestion of the aforementioned medications apparently causes them to "run through" the fetus.
As I said before, the result is that, when Mrs. KPShubert visited her doctor, he told her she would have to discontinue her current medication and begin to do insulin shots.
This--as I have also mentioned--was a matter of some trepidation for our brave young pregnant lady! I mean! Who in the heck wants to give him or—as is the case here—her self shots?!?
Well it turns out this is just the beginning of the saga.
I told the missus when she first began doing the shots not to assume that the immediate results should be the ones she should anticipate in the long run. Her pretty much immediate and totally understandable response was, "Well DUH Sherlock!" Okay, maybe she didn't phrase it exactly like that—my wife can be a lovely and graceful lady (and I believe I recall her having been so in this case).
Being a conscientious lady, she also started looking at ways she needed to modify her diet to keep her blood sugar in the range the doc told her was appropriate (between 95 after "fasting" and something like 120 two hours after meals).
Well, it turns out the insulin changed things pretty drastically! At one point during the day, our lovely pregnant lady found her blood sugar was at something like 60!!! She was shaking, sweating and generally not feeling well—as one might well imagine considering the circumstances.
I am remiss, in that I cannot tell you which of her friends at work helped her to get back to reasonable levels. Needless to say, I am very thankful to that individual for doing so!
So, it turns out the insulin/diet (and I mean eating habits here, not diet in the generally misused sense) adventure is just beginning.
All I can say is, "Hang in there ma!" And of course, "I love you!"
Okay, a quick plug and I will post this:
I have started a new and totally unrelated blog to this one, here on blogspot. You can find it at http://mansnature.blogspot.com. For ongoing news on Mrs. KPShubert's pregnancy, make sure you keep yourself "tuned in to" this blog (the one you're looking at now). The "new blog" will—funnily enough—be about man's nature.
Okay! Back to your regularly scheduled program!
As I said before, the result is that, when Mrs. KPShubert visited her doctor, he told her she would have to discontinue her current medication and begin to do insulin shots.
This--as I have also mentioned--was a matter of some trepidation for our brave young pregnant lady! I mean! Who in the heck wants to give him or—as is the case here—her self shots?!?
Well it turns out this is just the beginning of the saga.
I told the missus when she first began doing the shots not to assume that the immediate results should be the ones she should anticipate in the long run. Her pretty much immediate and totally understandable response was, "Well DUH Sherlock!" Okay, maybe she didn't phrase it exactly like that—my wife can be a lovely and graceful lady (and I believe I recall her having been so in this case).
Being a conscientious lady, she also started looking at ways she needed to modify her diet to keep her blood sugar in the range the doc told her was appropriate (between 95 after "fasting" and something like 120 two hours after meals).
Well, it turns out the insulin changed things pretty drastically! At one point during the day, our lovely pregnant lady found her blood sugar was at something like 60!!! She was shaking, sweating and generally not feeling well—as one might well imagine considering the circumstances.
I am remiss, in that I cannot tell you which of her friends at work helped her to get back to reasonable levels. Needless to say, I am very thankful to that individual for doing so!
So, it turns out the insulin/diet (and I mean eating habits here, not diet in the generally misused sense) adventure is just beginning.
All I can say is, "Hang in there ma!" And of course, "I love you!"
Okay, a quick plug and I will post this:
I have started a new and totally unrelated blog to this one, here on blogspot. You can find it at http://mansnature.blogspot.com. For ongoing news on Mrs. KPShubert's pregnancy, make sure you keep yourself "tuned in to" this blog (the one you're looking at now). The "new blog" will—funnily enough—be about man's nature.
Okay! Back to your regularly scheduled program!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Mrs. KPShubert - Jellybean Shubert
So, if you are a friend of mine on Facebook then you've already seen this little Shubert and if not here you are:
Jellybean Shubert
As Kurt says I was not feeling well for a couple of weeks and he finally said "wake up and smell the baby" - maybe not in so many words. :-)
I think the majority of the nausea is passing - slowly - as I've been able to eat "smelly" foods like tuna recently so we'll see. My major goal will be to re-integrate dairy into my diet - right now it's just cheese mixed with things like eggs or veggies. I want my cereal back.
We are (by my calendar) officially going into week 8 starting Saturday 7/31/2010 but the doctor's office says by their measurements (Jellybean's measurement, that is) we are going into week 7 tomorrow, Friday. I have to say - I was right about Anjoli's due date... I'm just saying! We'll see.
I love you all, and no it's not just the hormones talking!
Jellybean Shubert
I think the majority of the nausea is passing - slowly - as I've been able to eat "smelly" foods like tuna recently so we'll see. My major goal will be to re-integrate dairy into my diet - right now it's just cheese mixed with things like eggs or veggies. I want my cereal back.
We are (by my calendar) officially going into week 8 starting Saturday 7/31/2010 but the doctor's office says by their measurements (Jellybean's measurement, that is) we are going into week 7 tomorrow, Friday. I have to say - I was right about Anjoli's due date... I'm just saying! We'll see.
I love you all, and no it's not just the hormones talking!
Mr KPShubert - It's official!
Okay, so firstly I should say that Kroger's pregnancy tests are somewhat on the unsatisfactory side for my liking. Mrs. KPShubert did one test and had a hard time figuring out whether it said yea or nay.
At my urging, she did the other test and concluded it was a "yea" (or a YAY! depending on your point of view). Frankly, she didn't take the initial test until I pretty much told her it was probably something she ought to do. She thought initially that she was just not feeling well and did not assume the reason to be being "in the family way." I think she was also more than a little apprehensive about possibly being pregnant since she has had issues before (I'll leave it to her to tell you what they were if she decides to do so but won't blame her if she doesn't).
The second test was not so much better than the first (same results and where technically they were "conclusive" in reality it was really hard to say). We both assumed the tests were positve and Mrs. KPShubert scheduled an appointment with her doctor.
The doctor ran her through the normal routine. We should have known it would be almost three hours in his office rather than the hour we were expecting (we took "lunch" thinking that would be enough time to cover the appointment—of course, it wasn't).
The doc switched Mrs. KPShubert from her standard diabetes medication to insulin shots for the duration. Apparently, the stuff she was taking "runs through" the baby as a result of being digested. Mrs. KPShubert was more than a little apprehensive about the shots but seems to be adjusting nicely to having to stick herself with yet one more "needle." Being fair, the thing she has to stick herself with most of the time is more a pin than a needle (the little lancet she uses to check her blood sugar), so there's some adjustment to doing an actual shot.
On top of this, the best place to do the shots turns out to be in "large muscle tissue." As a result, she is currently favouring the thigh area for doing it.
Part of the doctor's appointment was the obligatory "visual ultrasound" (these days, I don't know that they even use the hand, "audio only" ultrasounds all that much, but still...). Hence Mrs. KPShubert's name for the blog (though technically, it may've come from the iPod app that we're using to track "normal progress"). We got to see "our little jellybean" and hear his or her beating heart. It's always amazing--that little heart beating a mile a minute!
Here's my "plug" against abortion. If you have not "seen" the foetus you are about to "remove" through ultrasound and heard the little heartbeat, you probably don't realize that actually is a little baby in there—but it is! End of plug.
Okay, enough on this for now. I'm sure Mrs. KPShubert will have her bit to say so be sure to "tune in" for that.
At my urging, she did the other test and concluded it was a "yea" (or a YAY! depending on your point of view). Frankly, she didn't take the initial test until I pretty much told her it was probably something she ought to do. She thought initially that she was just not feeling well and did not assume the reason to be being "in the family way." I think she was also more than a little apprehensive about possibly being pregnant since she has had issues before (I'll leave it to her to tell you what they were if she decides to do so but won't blame her if she doesn't).
The second test was not so much better than the first (same results and where technically they were "conclusive" in reality it was really hard to say). We both assumed the tests were positve and Mrs. KPShubert scheduled an appointment with her doctor.
The doctor ran her through the normal routine. We should have known it would be almost three hours in his office rather than the hour we were expecting (we took "lunch" thinking that would be enough time to cover the appointment—of course, it wasn't).
The doc switched Mrs. KPShubert from her standard diabetes medication to insulin shots for the duration. Apparently, the stuff she was taking "runs through" the baby as a result of being digested. Mrs. KPShubert was more than a little apprehensive about the shots but seems to be adjusting nicely to having to stick herself with yet one more "needle." Being fair, the thing she has to stick herself with most of the time is more a pin than a needle (the little lancet she uses to check her blood sugar), so there's some adjustment to doing an actual shot.
On top of this, the best place to do the shots turns out to be in "large muscle tissue." As a result, she is currently favouring the thigh area for doing it.
Part of the doctor's appointment was the obligatory "visual ultrasound" (these days, I don't know that they even use the hand, "audio only" ultrasounds all that much, but still...). Hence Mrs. KPShubert's name for the blog (though technically, it may've come from the iPod app that we're using to track "normal progress"). We got to see "our little jellybean" and hear his or her beating heart. It's always amazing--that little heart beating a mile a minute!
Here's my "plug" against abortion. If you have not "seen" the foetus you are about to "remove" through ultrasound and heard the little heartbeat, you probably don't realize that actually is a little baby in there—but it is! End of plug.
Okay, enough on this for now. I'm sure Mrs. KPShubert will have her bit to say so be sure to "tune in" for that.
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