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[SadieSue]

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Congrats on new tiny little babies! Those Serama are charmers. If only I had the room... but then again, maybe better that I don't.

 

[SadieSue]

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Well that's a drag. Sorry.

Good luck at your next test!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I know...I mean--what's the point?

I have gained 15lbs and I'm 30 weeks along now. I don't eat sugar, sweets, etc and this last test make me queasy/dizzy and feel off....I was not overweight before I got pregnant and the doctor seems to think I'm gaining weight at a good rate (slow & steady). I would HATE to have to be on insulin, if it comes to that...my mom is type 2 and my dad's diabetes is controlled by medicine.

I am hoping mine could be controlled by diet--but as far as exercise--the doctor already said I'm doing a little too much (feeding the horses, dragging hoses, shoveling/raking) and I walk about 2 miles a day just doing my job....and the longer I'm on my feet, the more swollen they become.

I'm an insulin dependant Type 2 and was "diagnosed" by gtt in my second pregnancy; I wasn't having any high BG and my doctor didn't send me to have my HgA1c checked before the test, which the ADS doesn't consider best practice. I had multiple 3 hour gtts as a kid because my family was part of a huge clinical study of Type 2 diabetes, so my dislike goes back a ways. Ask your doc if you can get a meter, test regularly, and *act like a healthy diabetic* (which it sounds like you already are) without the second test; if you're having real-life highs then taking insulin is indicated (and not that big a deal with modern needles) but I'd be willing to bet that you only have highs in the face of a glucose challenge, and *staying away from high sugar foods and raggenfraggingelzenfratzen glucola* is going to be the healthiest thing you can do.

I get grouchy about this: my last three hour glucose tolerance test made me go back to having morning sickness for about two weeks after, and probably didn't help with the process that led me to develop Type 2 eight years later, premenopause (I also got caught in the nonsense which was the high-carb reducing diet fad of the late eighties). I'm behind on my medical journal reading, but my last binge included several articles which, shall we say, did not indicate that GTTs have a secure place in scientific evidence based medicine.

Well--I will just have to be even more careful now. I guess...I'm hoping that the second test will indicate nothing is wrong and I will be on my merry way?

I would only want to do medication & insulin as a last resort...I can monitor my blood sugar and do it that way--but I'm really trying to avoid the shots.

 

[RedReiner]

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Congrats on new tiny little babies! Those Serama are charmers. If only I had the room... but then again, maybe better that I don't.

they take up as much room as a coffee cup lol. you would never even notice them! this is the little yellow one

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Well that's a drag. Sorry.

Good luck at your next test!

Thanks...it's not how I wanted to spend my day off work. I'm supposed to bring a good book.

i wonder if they'd notice if went out & ran around the block a few times?

 

[SadieSue]

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Congrats on new tiny little babies! Those Serama are charmers. If only I had the room... but then again, maybe better that I don't.

they take up as much room as a coffee cup lol. you would never even notice them! this is the little yellow one
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb265/paintcutter/serama/yellowserama.jpg

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb265/paintcutter/serama/yellowserama1.jpg

Omgosh, so cute! My "babies" are 4 weeks old tomorrow and right in the middle of ugly adolescence. I mean, I still love them to pieces, but oh I will be so glad when they get feathered out more. Especially the yellow chicks - where their darker feathers are growing in on top of their heads it looks like they have a disease, it's so spotty!
I'm kind of missing the tiny, adorable chick stage.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Well that's a drag. Sorry.

Good luck at your next test!

Thanks...it's not how I wanted to spend my day off work. I'm supposed to bring a good book.

i wonder if they'd notice if went out & ran around the block a few times?

Sorry Heather!

 

[Chickielady]

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Wikipedia to the rescue.

They were living on a creek with a small salmon run, and their Lab ate a spawned-out dog salmon; I lost one dog to the disease when an eagle was nest-cleaning and dropped the remains on my place; Griz got sick when he dug up somebody's compost pile, but I smelled fish on his breath and took him to the vet post haste.

(I started this a half-hour ago, and then the hired help showed up and I got sidetracked).

(and then didn't proofread, oh, well)

This helped me, too. It was from CL. It has a link to a calculator as well.
http://mangrovepoultry.com/ColourGenetics.aspx
Ooops... this was for Vfog.

This is the one he needs, I think~~~~~~~~~~

http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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Congrats on new tiny little babies! Those Serama are charmers. If only I had the room... but then again, maybe better that I don't.

they take up as much room as a coffee cup lol. you would never even notice them! this is the little yellow one
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb265/paintcutter/serama/yellowserama.jpg

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb265/paintcutter/serama/yellowserama1.jpg

Yeah! More Serama babies!!!
I just took some updated pics of my Serama babies from you yesterday. I will upload and post so you can see!

 

[Chickielady]

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Well that's a drag. Sorry.

Good luck at your next test!

Thanks...it's not how I wanted to spend my day off work. I'm supposed to bring a good book.

i wonder if they'd notice if went out & ran around the block a few times?

You have to do the over night starve (not even coffee) then they feed ya a sticky little cup full of glucose, and take you blood sample every half hour.
The bad part is it is BORING and HURTS!!!!!!!