I’m five minutes into my three-hour glucose test. I haven’t eaten for about ten hours. Who the hell makes a pregnant woman fast for eight fucking hours?
I’m here because I failed the one-hour test. If you’ve never taken one, you chug a really sweet drink (mine was orange flavored) and they take your blood an hour later. Turns out my glucose levels were really high. But I’m thinking, whose wouldn’t be? But what do I know, the non-doctor that I am.
I’m looking at the “whose” in that sentence and thinking, did I spell that right? This is what not eating and having to drink orange syrup on an empty stomach does to a person.
I did think ahead and bring my laptop; the hospital has free public wifi. This is an accomplishment in itself, since I’m so hungry right now the pages in the phone book sitting on the table next to me are starting to look delicious.
There are five blood draws total, they told me when I came in this morning. FIVE BLOOD DRAWS. And here I thought the highlight would just be having to sit in a waiting room for three hours not getting paid at work!
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OMG that sounds like a horrible day to sit in the hospital like that. Thank god for free wifi.
I would have gone out of my mind.
When are the results expected?
Yeah, I remember my 3 hour test. It was insane. WTF is with getting blood drawn that many times? I hated it.