Hi claire! Welcome, the more the merrier!
I had my glucose test this morning. What a pain that was...took me 1.5 hours to get to the silly place they sent me to for it, involving travel by car, tram and bus. And me running to catch the wrong bus at one point (haven't ran in soooooo long!), a tram driver driving off just as I was buying my ticket from the machine a the tram stop, and me hence being 15 minutes late for the appointment...grrrrr.
Drink wasn't so bad. Hanging around 2 hours not so bad as I had a book. But on the return journey I had a weird dizzy moment and thought I was going to pass out. I had only eaten toast, about 5 hours previously, so maybe it was that, or maybe it was the suga come down from the glucose, a reaction to the three viles of blood taken or maybe some sort of panic attack (have felt stressy lately, like high blood pressure) but after getting off a bus I suddenly felt all hot, sweaty and wobbly. No where to sit down, so went straight into a shop, bought coke, biscuits and Doritos and sat on my next tram like a big huge pregnant lady stuffing my face with junk food! (DH laughed and said he wished e could have seen that moment!..). Made me feel much less wobbly. Was a bit scarey, like just too close to fainting for my liking.
So i suggest you take some snacks with you if you have your test coming up ladies, just incase of wobbles after the appointment!
I so feel all your stresses about names Jo. We had the same until my son came up with a gem. I think it is Italian in origin, if it was spelt differently, so maybe you could look into ther nationalities?...
Xx