18-3-2009 - Not a good visit

My mood while writing this blog: frustrated

Ugh... so yesterday I had my doctors appointment, it should have been last week, but we were on Spring Break here, so the doc was out! Anywho, so I have not been doing very well lately, (contractions, swelling, sleeplessness, dizziness/fainting, etc...). Well I planned on giving the doc all this info and him helping me with it, and since my boss asked when I'd be starting half days, i figured I'd talk to him about that too. Well, it did NOT go as planned. Do you everfeel like a faceless paycheck? That's how I felt yesterday. First off, he didn't even remember that I had to go to the ER for passing out during my glucose screening, so I had to explain that whole thing to him again, which he didn't seem too concerned with. Then I told him about all the issues I was having and he just nodded his head and said "Uh huh... all normal". Seriously? This is my THIRD pregnancy and I've never swollen up like I am and haven't been sick from eating anything with sugar in it! Ugh... So everything I tried to talk to him about (my CONCERNS) were dismissed as "normal pregnancy symptoms". But he did make it a point to say that I've "Gained more weight than they like to see!" The funny (not REALLY funny) thing about that is that weight gain and large babies are a side effect of having gestational diabetes, of which he doesn't want to retest me for cause he's "pretty sure I don't have it"! I couldn't believe this guy! Then on top of ALL THAT he said that he didn't see a need for me to go to half days... that I was doing just fine. DID HE EVEN HEAR ME!? or was he worried about the next appointment he had 2 minutes later!? Man, I was so frustrated I was almost in tears... I felt so unimportant!

Other than all this crap, everything's good. I'm almost 31 weeks and the baby acts just as anxious as I am. Still no name yet though... hopefully something will come to mind soon, you never can tell when these little monkeys are gonna show face! :0)