This week, my Mum was showing some of the women at her work the latest issue of diabetes magazine, which I have an article published in. The article talks about my experiences with the Dexcom CGMS (see all the posts on this here) and mentions that I’m moving to a pump. Mum’s talked to these women before about the expense of the pump and how I’m still paying it off, and one of her work friends piped up all of a sudden and said “Right – this is what’s going to happen – we’re going to all cobble together and bake lots of cakes and sell them on behalf of your daughter and raise the $500 for the pump”. Unfortunately she’d got her wires crossed and thought pumps were ‘only’ $500 instead of the $7000+ they are really worth, but I was dead chuffed at the sentiment all the same.

And while I’m on that charity money-raising note, have you seen “Matt Webb’s 100 Head Cattle Drive‘? Had a right giggle when I saw this. Essentially this chap is asking for people to buy him 100 ‘designer’ (my summation) cows, and when he has them, he is going to donate 500 GBP to Aga Khan Foundation, Breast Cancer Care, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, or Traid. Those who donate cows get to vote on the charity. Apparently he couldn’t justify to himself spending the money on plastic cows, but a charitable donation was palatable.