Red Light, Green Light
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 10:40AM I went for my endo appointment this morning. Everything went well, only changing one basal rate. Dr C. said that looking at my numbers from my PDM and my averages from the Dexcom, my A1c should still be in the 6’s this time.
At the end of the appointment, I asked his opinion of pregnancy. This has always been a touchy subject for me with my endos because they either have this attitude of “We really don’t need to discuss that right now” or “You absolutely cannot get pregnant unless you are at or under 5.5 under my care.” He said that as far as he was concerned, as long as this A1c came back in the 6’s, I have the green light. Now, yes, I know it will probably be best if I wait until I have it closer to 6.0, but just to hear his words of “you’ll have the green light” was music to my ears.
So, until I have the results (which should be this time next week), I have the game of “Red light, Green light” playing in my head.
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Reader Comments (3)
There's a perverse parallel here: when "IT" has his/her back turned, it's like the time between A1c tests. Your known appointment is when "IT" yells, "Red light, green light, 1-2-3!" and turns around to find everyone doing his/her best attempt at freezing. And no, I don't think I've played that game in 40 years...
I was thinking of when I was a preschool kid, we played it where one person shouted either "Red light" and everyone froze or "Green light" and everyone ran around playing like we were driving cars. I associated the game with our plans to have a baby. "Red light" being that the a1c was higher than needed to be and our plans were stopped until, "green light", they were in range. Sorry if it seemed to not come across that way.
Here's wishing for the *6's*
It really sounds like you've got a good endo though. Those are quite hard to find.