Hiatus.

27 December 2008
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Everyone needs a break, particularly bloggers who write in their spare time, for free. Aaron and I are joining this way of thinking and are duly going to be on hiatus until 5 January 2009.

Have a very happy and safe holiday all – and see you next year!

Nic and Aaron

xx

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By Nic on 27 December 2008 at 7.02 am
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Merry (belated) Christmas!

27 December 2008
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Merry Christmas one and all! Sorry this message is coming to you from the 27th December but the early part of the holiday season overwhelmed me: finishing up work, celebrating being on holiday, finishing up the last of the Christmas shopping, catching up with friends before they went away; preparing food for the big day, etc etc etc.

I hope Santa was good to you, and you had fun no matter where you were, what you did or who you were with. My brother was in Jordan (in the Middle East) so I’m pegging his was probably slightly different to the rest of us!

I was very spoilt this year on a diabetes-thoughtfulness front. My sister and brother-in-law gave us…

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By Nic on 27 December 2008 at 7.00 am
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Guest Blog: Happy Campers

21 December 2008
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Every year as par for the course, everyone in our office gets the option of having their birthday off so this year rather than going to the beach, the movies, dinner and then hanging out in the sunshine of late November I asked my bosses if I could defer my leave till January. I’m off to diabetes camp!

When I was a kid my parents would assign x number of carer support days to the diabetes society or the hospital (I don’t know if they still do that or an equivalent of it these days) who, in turn, would use the money to fund camps and activity weeks via a loophole in the legislation. Me and heaps of other kids,…

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By Aaron on 21 December 2008 at 10.43 am
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Tis the season… to be wobbly.

18 December 2008
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I’ve been in denial for a while, even with getting on the scales at the hospital a few weeks ago. With the sole focus lately having been my blood sugars, you’d think I’d be fit, healthy, spritely, and above all, slim.

Not so. Not that I’m a complete porker (depending on your perspective of course, I imagine if you live in an African country you would probably think I was pretty gynormous), but I have to say I’m not in the best shape I’ve been in my life lately.

Thus, I dusted off my old Weight Watchers books on the weekend and have added that to the measuring, weighing and scrutising of my food. Hey – what’s one more thing…

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By Nic on 18 December 2008 at 4.20 pm
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Updates.

16 December 2008
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A couple of updates for y’all:

1. My friend who wrote this great post about gestational diabetes has given birth to a beautiful, healthy baby boy. He weighed a normal 7 1/2 pounds, and his sugar levels were excellent when he made his debut into the world. Well done that lady!!

2. In an update to my most recent blog, my BG has now got itself back to 6.1. And I avoided a hypo by taking BG tests every half hour between 7:45 and 10:30. Finally off to eat something now – couldn’t have breakfast until the levels came down then got busy with work.

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By Nic on 16 December 2008 at 11.34 am
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