It is 11:20pm, I'm in bed, I had just put down my current read "Cheating Destiny", I got all cozy, then my phone 'dings' with a new email message. Usually I sleep with it on silent so I don't have to hear that but I forgot to switch it off. I reach over to turn it to silent and check the message. I even said out loud to my boyfriend "I'm just going to check this message" because I usually ignore them when I'm in bed, didn't want to seem TOO addicted to my iPhone.
The subject of the email was "Your A1c test results are ready." My heart sinks and I can't click on the thing fast enough. I'm usually not this excited to get my results but I know i've been working my you-know-what off the past couple of months and I'm desperate for reassurance that i've been improving my numbers. My last result was a 7.3% and that's around where I always am, and have been since day 1 almost fifteen years ago. I do recall maybe once being a 6.9. Anyway, for this test I was hoping with all that I had to be anywhere under a 7 because it was so rare for me.
I scroll down the message to search for that little number. It felt like they hid it on purpose to make me squirm. I usually go online to my doctors website to look at my results, but this was one of those at-home tests so I wasn't used to the layout. I see this fuzzy number on my little iPhone screen...looks like a blur point nine. Frantically zoomed in hoping to see a 6, chanting in my head *six six six six six six*.... I zoom in .... and it was a 5. Yes, a 5! Let me repeat (to myself because I didn't believe it) my A1c is in the fives!!!!!! HOLY COW!!! I was almost crying. I was shaking, smiling, in shock. I never in my life though I could be in the fives! I figured I'd work hard and end up in the sixes, but never the fives!
Needless to say I went to bed with a giant smile on my face, literally! ....Of course that is after calling my mom at 11:30 pm to tell her :)
