After June's close escape from diagnosis, we have all dreaded today's oral glucose tolerance test. Her fasting glucose this morning was 108. It has always been in the 80's. Under 100 is normal, between 100 & 125 is prediabetes, and over 125 is diabetes. Today was her first official impaired fasting glucose. Sad. I braced myself for the rest of the day. All the other numbers are done by lab work so we don't have any official results yet. However, we took a BG by Andrew's meter at two hours and it was 149! That is also an impaired glucose number (should be under 140), but it looked beautiful to me!!! Even with the normal meter variation of 10-20%, we shouldn't get close to the 200 mark! What a relief!!! I'm still concerned about the fasting glucose. I hope it was just nerves, but she had a 110 at home one time too. It will be interesting to see what her A1c is. If anything is bad, they will call us by Saturday. Otherwise, we will hear in a week or so.
Andrew's A1c was up a little, but less than we expected. His first blood pressure was high, as it often is, but the second number was acceptable. I don't remember the bottom numbers but the first top number was 139 & second was 125. It just hurts to worry about these things in a child. His doctor isn't too concerned about it though. Being in the children's hospital for Kaitlyn's test is humbling though. We always see kids with cancer, Down's, and other conditions I can't imagine or describe. Andrew's comment walking out of the hospital today was, "I'm really lucky..." Tonight, we are all thankful to be home safe and sound with no new diagnoses for anyone. Thanks to all who pray for us!
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