Dealing with Gestational Diabetes

Pregnant at 44 - 19 January 2020 journal entry
(25 weeks pregnant)

This week was busier than my first work week. On Monday, I went to my endocrinologist  who has been my doctor for 12 years now. I met her when I developed a very rare disease called acromegaly (story on this link) and she remarkably made the right diagnosis in 2007.

My endocrinologist confirmed this time that I have gestational diabetes, and she said I was predisposed to it due to my acromegaly history. She started me on 10 units of insulin. I started monitoring my blood sugar in December. Sadly, I had many spikes reading as high as 187, and on some days, my sugar dived to 57. After a week of insulin I still registered abnormal high and low sugar levels, tsk tsk, not good at all. 😢

I should really shift to brown rice. Maybe I’ll start next week and see if white rice has been the main culprit all along. I never thought I could have diabetes. I’m praying my gestational diabetes resolves after I give birth.

I am also praying that the ultrasound-doppler finding on some notching in one of my uterine arteries, which delivers food to the baby through the placenta, resolves in my third trimester. In the meantime, I am to take aspirin, a blood thinner, daily. 

Pregnant at 44

11 January 2020 (24 weeks)

It's a Boy

Hello 2020! I like you already, as you will see my Galen (GALEN – anagram for angel) born into this beautiful, crazy, fast world. Please see us through with grace and love.

I survived the first work week! But more than that, this week gave me a peek into what Galen is up to. He was so awake and cooperative, but a bit shy, in the one hour I had a congenital anomaly scan. Galen was such a good boy, charming the doctors and showing all his organs -- his 10 fingers and 10 toes, his perfect spine, his long arms -- curling his lips, opening his mouth, sucking his toes. Galen gave us quite a show! The sonologist, who was the section head of The Medical City Women’s Health, happily showed her resident doctors a perfect scan of Galen, remarking a few times how beautiful the images they got were. “Praise be to God,” she said, and I felt God’s love and faithfulness. 💛