{"id":226,"date":"2005-12-21T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/no-news-yet\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T18:24:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T02:24:56","slug":"no-news-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/no-news-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3-hour test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went for the gestational diabetes test today, although I don&#8217;t get the results until tomorrow.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI had to fast for 12 hours beforehand, so I arrived hungry and had to drink a small beverage (~12 oz.) containing a HUNDRED grams of sugar* within 5 minutes. It was rather sweet. I wondered if feeding me spoonfuls of sugar might have been more efficient.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThen, I got my arm poked with a needle four times (once every hour for 3 hours) to test how well my body processed the sugar. The blood draw took less than 5 minutes per time, leaving about 50 minutes to wait in between. Luckily, Steve came with me so we had fun stepping out to a different place each hour.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFirst, Burgermaster for Steve&#8217;s breakfast (having just consumed so much sugar, I wasn&#8217;t hungry&#8230; not that I could have eaten anyway). The second hour we spent at Tully&#8217;s, using a  laptop (Steve) and reading the paper (me). During the final hour, we walked around some of the children&#8217;s stores in the area and looked at things like strollers and toys.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter the last needle poke, I dropped Steve off at home and headed to work, where I had a most welcome sandwich for lunch.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<font size=\"-2\"><em>For comparison, a 12-oz can of Coke contains 39g of sugar and has 140 calories. That means the calorie content of my glucose-laden breakfast drink was 359 calories!<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went for the gestational diabetes test today, although I don&#8217;t get the results until tomorrow. &nbsp; I had to fast for 12 hours beforehand, so I arrived hungry and had to drink a small beverage (~12 oz.) containing a HUNDRED grams of sugar* within 5 minutes. It was rather sweet. I wondered if feeding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}