So, today was my big doctor’s visit. The Cheesecake City Diabetes Center is in the same office as the Women’s Center, so the waiting room had several beautiful pregnant women inside…
Including the lady I met with. She looked like Twiggy with a football shoved under her shirt, but it turns out that she is due in a week.
Short answer: No full-blown diabetes, but I have “pre-diabetes”. Is that really a surprise, though?
Anyway, we went over some things about diet, what I eat, drink, take as supplements (and there are a lot of them and she approved of them, which is nice). Then she whipped out the monitor thingy. Ugh. She showed me how it is used and I took my first reading.
I have to take two readings a day – one right before a meal and the other two hours after that same meal. I have a sheet that I am to write my data on and I will bring it all with me next Tuesday to a class. The class should be more about diet, exercise and managing this.