What a day!!!
Well...the good bit is...the scan showed baby is healthy, everything seems to be as it should be, thank God!!!! And it's.....a Girl!!!! Eeeek, I don't know anything about girly stuff?! Always been a bit of a tomboy myself! Guess I'll learn as we go along!
Apart from that, it was an utter farce. The appt was 2pm, we got out of the hospital at around 5pm (2 tired & stressed adults, one very tired & thoroughly fed up toddler!). 2 - 4.40 was in the diabetic antenatal clinic, seeing loads of different people (with limited benefit) & having the scan done, then we had to go to try & see if I could be seen by someone in eye casualty dept - I'd asked about the problems with my eyes post laser & they (the diabetic specialist docs in the clinic) were concerned & wanted me to be seen by a specialist there...so they phoned & got an appt set for 4.30 (just before eye casualty closes). By the time we were released from diabetic clinic the eye casualty dept had closed, and they wouldn't see me...they wouldn't let me come back next week either, so hubby & I are going to have to miss another day off work & go back in first thing tomorrow morning. Apparently they couldn't see me in normal A&E because they haven't got the right kit! Scary...just don't ever get a bleed out of hours, I guess!!!
😱 So more dilation & probably more laser tomorrow...oh dear. Not anticipating a good night's sleep tonight...
As for the diabetic side...guess what...I'm testing & correcting too much!! (& you could tell they wanted to tell me to cut the BI too!!!) **** **!!! I did rant a bit about the only way I could test less was to chuck in my job, throw myself on the benefits system and just not do anything all day (hence no variety, less changes to sugar levels less need to test to check what the heck my levels were doing!). They were not amused.
So a thoroughly disheartening & stressful experience again...and I'm back to go through the whole fiasco (minus the nice bit of the scan) in 2 weeks...
😱 Seriously, utterly fed up with this now. (Good way to put people off having more kids!!!)
But clinging on to the positive - at the mo we've a healthy baby girl growing, all looking good & placenta nicely located at the back...so that's keeping me smiling!