Yesterday was one of those days that I wondered if I should pack socks in my purse.

You ladies know what I'm talking about. It's that place where doctors put pictures on the ceiling to take your mind off what's going on. Yeah, you guessed it: yesterday I had my annual well woman exam.

In all my years of visiting doctors and having diabetes and explaining my diagnosis and saying why I take what meds I take and how my pregnancies went and that no it wasn't gestational diabetes this was not the appointment I had imagined.

First, I waited. And waited. Among lots of cute little pregnant women who kept getting calls from Grandma and saying "We're not telling anyone!". Which made me nostalgic, but not *that* nostalgic. And then the nurse asked the question: When was the first day of your last period. I was prepared; I had my calendar with me. When I told her I'm supposed to start next week I could hear the oh-my-God-she's-pregnant-and-doesn't-know-it-yet excitement in her voice as she said, "You should have started already." Which made me a little angry because of all places an OB/GYN's office should not assume that every woman has a 27-day cycle. But I digress slightly.

So, I'll just get right to it: When you're stripped bare and wearing paper or a hospital gown backwards for clothes there aren't that many places to put your pump. I clipped mine to the "jacket" I had on. I heard nurse S and Dr. I discussing me outside the door before Dr. I came in the room.

I had never met Dr. I, so we exchanged pleasantries and she couldn't help but notice my pump (although my paperwork clearly stated that I'm type 1). She made sure I was seeing and endocrinologist and when I said yes she responded with, "Good because I don't want to touch your diabetes." To which I thought, "Fabulous! Because I don't want anyone but my endo to be on my diabetes case." I wasn't offended, I was actually relieved, and remembered when I was pregnant with No. 3 and my peri said, "If I never have to see another blood sugar log...".

I left feeling a little weird. Dr. I walked out of the room and I thought, wait, don't you want to talk about xyz? what about abc? and jkl? I'm not sure why, but I guess that since diabetes is such a big factor in my everyday life that all doctors want to know about it. Really thinking about it, though, it's comforting to know that Dr. I is concentrating on her area of expertise.