Pretty amazing visit to the hospital.
First, the scan. Had a less than forthcoming sonographer this time who absolutey wouldn't say a word to me about what she was seeing (always makes me a bit paranoid) but we did have a lengthy discussion about celebrities and their pregnancies! She showed me the baby briefly, but I have a dreadful cold bug and feel like crap the room in there was making me feel dizzy and faint as it was so hot, so I just had a quick look and then made a hasty exist. Met up with G in the carpark and went over to the High Risk Clinic to get the results.
The baby is, apparently, in the 75th percentile at this stage, which means he's on the big side (no surprise there!). His head is measuring 30 wks (2 wks ahead - we have big headed babies in our family!), his legs 27 wks (1 wk behind) and there were two other ones I forget but they were 29 or so, which they use to calculate this 75%ile measurement. Apparently all is good, some bits grow quicker than others, etc.......... absolutely nothing to worry about. He will, no doubt, end up being a big baby though! Hopefully not TOO big, D was in the 100th percentile for everything (bar his head which was off the scale big) so I'm thinking a little smaller might be nice :)
We then popped next door to the Diabetes Clinic. I asked for the nurse I've seen in the HRC but she wasn't there, so another lady came out to talk to us. I apologised for dropping in but wanted some advice, and explained the situation with G's sugars. She immediately brought us into the office and tested him herself - 16. She said to him that it looks like he has Diabetes love, sorry! She said it's impossible to know at this point which type, but they will treat him with some pills for Type 2, if they don't work it'll be Type 1. We explained that we had a GP appointment at 4.30pm today and so she wrote down for the DR that G should be prescribed Metformin pills, and that he should be referred down to the clinic to see them. She gave us a referral form, and made an appointment for G at the clinic for Thursday morning (by which point we'll know if the pills are working and if not he'll be given some insulin).
I'm absolutely amazed and impressed by the swiftness of which you can be sorted out in this country. If this had been in the UK he'd have been on a 6 mths waiting list, or alternatively hospitalized as the only way to get him seen to as a priority. Here there are obviously far more resources to see people as outpatients, and it's very impressive that you can walk in cold and come out with a game plan of treatment and instant appointments.
Posted by katie at May 10, 2004 02:58 PM