{"id":1956,"date":"2007-06-07T13:13:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/06\/07\/pincushion\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:20","slug":"pincushion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/06\/07\/pincushion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pincushion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to act like the grown up I am and get the glucose testing done alone. Husband has to earn money, after all. I got to the lab at 8:15 this morning after having fasted for 10 hours. I was starving. They drew blood to establish my fasting baseline, and then I drained an eight ounce bottle containing 100 grams of glucose. Then once an hour for the next three hours they took more blood. They said I could drink water, and I sure did; it was one way to subdue the hunger pangs. <\/p>\n<p>The last hour went very quickly, as I struck up a conversation with another pregnant woman who&#8217;d come in for the same test a few minutes after me. We smiled at each other a few times, and then, bored and restless, I initiated contact. After the last blood draw (14 hours without eating), I hied myself home to eat some real food. And now, I&#8217;m drooping. I want to stay awake, but I think my body&#8217;s had it with the extreme blood sugar changes and wants to recuperate. I guess I earned a nap. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Odd tidbit: Husband watched a short video the other day and is struck me as something weird and fun to do. If you&#8217;re feeling creative in a mad scientist sort of way, and if you&#8217;re a big kid (or have a child), you can learn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/watch\/383051\/how_to_flubber_slime\/\">how to make your own flubber<\/a> at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to act like the grown up I am and get the glucose testing done alone. Husband has to earn money, after all. I got to the lab at 8:15 this morning after having fasted for 10 hours. I was starving. They drew blood to establish my fasting baseline, and then I drained an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11291,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/11291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}