Hopefully brief update ...

It was a long day today. I knew it'd be on the longer side, I just didn't realize how long it would actually be ... it was a day of gestational diabetes testing (gd) and ultrasounds (u/s).

The gd test was the extended 3-hour. Unlike back in Ohio, they drew blood by an actual finger prick (yeah! that many fewer vials!!!). And unlike back in Ohio, I had my results immediately ~ I'm just over the border. Yup, I've got gd again.

Then on to the u/s. Baby was NOT cooperating. What should have taken 1 tech and 15 minutes turned into 2 docs and nearly an hour and a half!!!!! Don't worry though, everything looks great!!! (and NO, we still don't know what it is yet!)

After the u/s, we headed back down to my high-risk doc, then to the dietician ... oh! that was fun!

The dietician was to be found, where else? but in the kitchen! Seriously. As in the kitchen of the cafeteria. We found our way to the cafeteria (after a wrong turn initially) then were asked to wear paper hats as we walked through the kitchen. I've kept them as souveniers! He didn't tell us anything we didn't know from the first time around with Bubba Joe - excepting that he doesn't recommend lots of sugar-free stuff because of the higher calorie content.

Then back down to my doc again, then back up to the diebetes specialist - who was the quickest of them all! 15 minutes later and we're back down in my docs office, scheduling my next appointment in 4 weeks and on our way back to sick ole Bubba Joe (he just can't kick this cold ~ and he did NOT nap well at Oma & Opa's - oh the fun we'll have tonight!) with a bag full of papers to fill to weekly fax in and diabetes testing supplies.

I'm exhausted.