VQ - that sucks re the weight loss - good luck and hope all is resolved soon.
Just home now after an epic day of appointments - post test slap-up lunch, then hairdressers, shopping, pilates, more shopping and just home! Just realised I look like a crash test dummy as my arms are covered in those little round plasters (found 4 so far) as had so many tests and vaccinations.
Knicky - re the gloop, I think what is supposed to happen (well certainly at my surgery) is that when the midwife issues you with a prescription for gloop when she asks you to make the appointment. Stupid thing is that it is cheaper to buy over the counter at the pharmacy anyway if you pay for prescriptions, so all they needed to do was tell me in advance to go and buy it! Stupid thing is that no one told me anything about this bit - I just assumed it was something they had in the surgery! To make things worse, when I had scuttled back from the pharmacy with the gloop, Angry Nurse tipped it into a jug so it looked like someone had taken a piss - vile.
When she said about having to stay for 2 hours, I pulled a face and said I lived nearby and she said definitely not allowed home (due to risk of reacting badly to gloop). And that she might call me back in for my vaccinations at any point, just in case I was thinking about making a bit for freedom. So I had to sit there for the hours - if they had supplied a chaise longue it may not have been so bad...
Something really weird happened while I was sat there though - was reading a news article on my phone about a woman who has had a baby recently (she comes from a vaguely newsworthy family) and a few minutes later she walked in with her baby! I did a double take and asked if it was her, and then we had a nice chat about her baby and other stuff. She has had a fairly hideous time - serious lifelong medical condition, IVF, pre-eclampsia, premature delivery, small for dates and so on, but baby was lovely (and really tiny). An interesting reminder too that it's not just older mums who have all these potential issues to contend with as she's 10 years younger than me.
Oh, and good luck with the scan Knicky - I was just recalling mine and recall that I wasn't overly worried at time (went on my own) as had had so many scans leading up to it due to amnio etc, and already knew the sex from the amnio as well. However, I would have been worried if it had been more of an 'unknown' as these things do get to you don't they? I'm sure everything will be fine though! Good luck also for the physio - I have had some SPD-stylee twinges on and off and went through all this at my pilates 1 to 1 today - she emphasised the need to keep as much symmetry as possible and has given me some exercises to do which focus a lot on pelvic floor (and even recorded a commentary on my phone for me so I don't forget how to do them)
Somewhere - all this nice food commentary is making me very hungry - just glad you weren't at it while I was in the 2 hour glucose purgatory/confinement. I have made several tons of mixed bean chilli and am off to heat up a serving of it now, with sour cream and guacamole on top.