(Good move on my part, now I’ll have that song stuck in my head for days.)

I have to go for my glucose screening test tomorrow, and I also need my Rhogam shot since I’m RH-negative (short version for those who don’t know: If you’re negative, your body can deal with the first baby but any subsequent pregnancy is seen as a foreign virus and is attacked by your immune system. Or something like that. The Rhogam takes care of it.).

I’m not looking forward to it. Oh, the drink isn’t that bad. It’s just very orange-flavored and mildly fizzy, but I’m not going until the afternoon so at least I don’t have to drink anything fizzy at 7:30 in the morning. I don’t care about the blood draw they do because needles don’t bother me*. I don’t care about the Rhogam because, again, needles are no big deal and the shot doesn’t hurt, especially when compared to sciatic nerve pain.

I’m just not looking forward to it simply because last time I screened positive with fairly high numbers, made myself somewhat crazy by looking on the label of EVERYTHING to see what I would be able to eat if I was indeed diabetic, and then nearly passed out at the three hour test the week after. Normally I don’t faint from having blood taken, but between fasting from midnight onwards, drinking a beverage with an even higher level of glucose, and having my blood taken three times while still fasting, I had to be sent to the nurse’s lounge to lie down. I’m really worried about having to go through all of that again.

Last time I didn’t know you could eat before the one hour screen, so I got up and went in on an empty stomach. I’m hoping that screwed up the results and that was why I screened so high. This time I know that I can eat as little as five minutes prior to the test, as long as I don’t eat or drink anything once it starts. I plan to eat a good breakfast and a good lunch so that my blood sugar is not wonky in any way.

Honestly, if anything I have LOW blood sugar. I shake when I don’t eat enough or if I don’t get enough protein. I seem to have a lot of symptoms that go with hypoglycemia even though I’ve tested negative for that more than once. The idea of having high blood sugar seems odd to me.

Anyway, here’s hoping it goes well and I don’t have to go back next week.

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*I have no problems with needles as far as my own body. When they show needles on television or in movies, it really bothers me. I have no idea why, you’d think if anything that it would be the other way around.