Things No One Warned Me About: The Glucose Test
To: All the people who told me that a glucose test was 'no big deal.'Um, it was super-gross. I'm guessing that it was worse for me than it should have been because I've had next to no artificial sugar, food dyes, etc in my system since January - and I just chugged a bottle *full* of syrupy-sweet orange grossness. It was seriously a struggle to get it down, then to keep it down, and even now - back at work - to not make a beeline for the bathroom.
And to add insult to injury? Manitoba Health covers the cost of the test, but not the drink. So I had to dig around in the bottom of my purse to come up with $2 in change before they'd hand over my orangelicious treat and allow me the pleasure of drinking it.
Baby, you're lucky I love you. And I'm lucky Geoff loves me, because he sat beside me through this little ordeal while I bitched about every detail, and then he drove a very cranky and miserable Lindsay to work.
Labels: Baby Talk, Things No One Warned Me About
posted by Lindsay @ 9:51 AM
6 Comments:
yeah....it would have been nice to have been prewarned about it. I had troubles keeping mine down also. but, just hope you don't have to go for the extended stay version, with three blood tests....
they CHARGED you for the drink? i have never charged anyone here at the clinic in Niv for that drink. think the receptionist needed some starbucks cash
That stuff is so horrible....and you had to PAY FOR IT? Not right. I just remember the nurse telling me that if I threw up...I'd have to start again!...that would have been another $2....for you.
Thank goodness it's over....this time. :)
Aw, thanks for the sympathy, ladies. And glad to know I wasn't the only one who thought that the measly $2 charge was beyond bizarre...
I think the charge was bizarre, but I honestly didn't mind the drink. :) It was cold, and tasted like orange crush - lol. I just pounded mine in one fowl swoop, while the poor lady beside me struggled to gag it down. I was expecting the worst and it was a cake walk. Maybe I'm weird. :)
I don't recall doing this? Is this a bad sign? Does it mean I didn't do it, or I blocked it from my memory?
Huh. Oh well. She's out, and she's healthy, so we trudge forward... ;)
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