The Doctor, Take Two and other happenings

So, just a quick note to say that I saw the doctor again on Wednesday. He seemed much happier with my numbers. They were, overall, much lower than last week, and for that matter lower than I've ever seen in the 20 years since I started checking! Let's just hope my body starts getting used to the lows so I don't feel symptomatic quite so often. (thankfully, we did make some changes to hopefully not have them SO low all the time.) Thanks to everyone who's praying for us!

In other news...  in order to make room for a nursery in the house, we are getting started on building a workshop out back. It will house all of the "stuff" currently in the garage, and also have a built in area for Chad's office. So, we'll move his indoor office to the workshop to free up a bedroom in the house. Thanks to Bill Conrad with Conrad Construction for the so far top notch contracting work!! We got started a few weeks ago clearing some trees.. so far there are 16 pine trees gone from this part of the yard!

 

This is our "tree guy" and friend, Tank, with Tank's Tree Service.. we highly recommend him!

The Doctor

Well, today I had my much anticipated appointment with the doctor. I guess I was still kind of riding on a high from last week's ego stroking from the diabetes educator, so I was in for a shock when the doctor was less than impressed with my control! I must say, it was pretty much the opposite of last week, but definitely a dose of reality and a bit of a kick in the pants. In a nutshell, he has a MUCH narrower range of acceptable blood sugars (60-135) and emphasized that, for the baby, low is much better than high (ie. I shouldn't treat until I get less than 50). I won't say I wasn't a little disappointed that he didn't even look at all of my fancy spreadsheets of endless data (hmph!), but that's ok, I really do want to get this under control and making me feel good about bad numbers I guess doesn't help.  As Katie would say, I need to put my big girl panties on and get this figured out, not the time for a pity party! So, the plan for now: to tackle what I always thought was impossible and get myself on a schedule (eat about the same things at the same times every day) and meet back with him every week.  Seems easy enough.
Oh, and no ultrasound.. I guess that makes sense since I just had one last week, but for some reason i thought there would be another.
At the end of the day, I know that God is in control and pray that He gives me the diligence to do my part to take care of this baby the best that I can. I am SO thankful for Chad and his support, it was nice having him there with me today, he prayed before we went in to the appointment, which is, I'm sure, what kept me from completely falling apart at a few tense moments.

Pictures!

Well, I'm a bit behind in posting, but I had a great appointment last week with my new diabetes educator (nurse).  I think she must see some of the worst, most non-compliant patients out there, so when she looked at my blood sugars, she had nothing but good things to say. I must say, it was refreshing to be praised for my efforts, even though I know that my control is far from what it should be. She couldn't believe they scheduled me to see her without having had and ultrasound yet, so she had them do one right then! I thought I was going to have to wait another week, so that was very exciting. Luckily, the office was just around the corner from Chad's work, so he was able to rush over and got there just in time for them to call me back... and see our little one's heartbeat! Yay!

Ok, now even I know there's not a whole lot to see there..  But, that little flash in the middle is a heartbeat, God is clearly at work knitting this little baby together!

Four Wonderful Years

Yes, as of July 8th, Chad and I have been married for 4 years.  It's funny to me how time goes by, because 4 years really doesn't seem like all that long, yet it's hard for me to remember life before marriage, it just seems so normal and comfortable now (ok, most of the time!). I really do just have to praise God for having a plan for our lives and leading us to each other. It has been a wonderful adventure and I'm especially excited for what the next year holds!  As we've been adjusting to the idea of being parents, especially in the first week or so of finding out, Chad commented that one of his fears was that he "didn't want to loose what we have with the two of us" (with the arrival of the baby). For some reason that still just almost brings a tear to my eyes. I know, from what everyone tells us, it will just get better and we really can't imagine it until it happens.. but to know that he really thinks we have something worth holding on to is still pretty sweet to me! I also found it pretty sweet to be surprised at work with the largest bouquet of flowers I've ever seen. (and it was a surprise, because we both admit that we aren't really "flower people", so I never would have expected them, but LOVED them, especially since I do like "surprises"!) We also got to enjoy a nice dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, Stonewood. Yum!

The Word is Out!

Yay, we have finally started slowly sharing our news with other loved ones and friends, what a relief! Thank you to all of your who are so excited for us, your prayers are much appreciated! Well, on the blood sugar front.. things are not so hot. I guess overall, I'm still doing better than usual, but things are still pretty all over the place. Please know I am trying!  My OB has me seeing a diabetes educator that works with them next week, hopefully that will be helpful.
Well, in the world outside of babies and blood sugars.. We had a great Fourth of July celebration out at the river with some family and friends. I had to work on the actual holiday, so missed most of the fireworks (which is ok by me) and apparently, the rain. We got out there late Sunday night and enjoyed a great day of relaxing on Monday since everyone was off work. Chad and dad got to talk "workshop" plans.. hopefully we'll be starting that soon! Yay! Unfortunately I don't think I took a single picture, I guess if I'm going to amount to much of a blogger, I've got to start remembering to get out my camera!