My latest HbA1c – 45.2%…

16 December 2008
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…well that’s what it will be if I keep up the hullabaloo of this week so far. After hitting a cool 19.9 yesterday from a pump/cannula failure, this morning I got up to 18.0.

I went to bed at midnight, with a steady 5.3. Got up to go to the gym at 5:20am – yaaaay it had gone up to 13.5 without any explanation! I was up and not keen to flag the gym so downed 3 units of insulin and headed to RPM starting at 6am. By 6:20am (about three tracks into the class) I’d gone up to 15.1. I tried one more track in the hope that it had peaked and was on its way down – not…

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By Nic on 16 December 2008 at 7.02 am
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“diabetes type 1, tired and grumpy”.

15 December 2008
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Whoever it was who typed this (above) into a search engine and found this blog, welcome. (for those of you who don’t know about these things, I get stats on this blog and one of the indicators is what people type into search engines who end up here – don’t worry, it doesn’t say who you are though).

Both Aaron and I were grumpy old type 1s today. Me probably because my site change didn’t work today so after breakfast I went up to 16.6, then half an hour later was at 19.9 before I figured out what was going on. That made me grumpy. And Aaron because he’d eaten no dinner, gone to bed with a perfect BG and…

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By Nic on 15 December 2008 at 8.27 pm
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An update from Living Cell Technologies.

15 December 2008
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I may not have been chosen for the pig cell trials at Middlemore Hospital, but you can bet your ass I’m still keeping up with what’s going on. Got a newsletter from LCT the other day and this is what they have reported from their Russian trials:

A total of six patients have been implanted with DIABECELL® to date in our ongoing Russian clinical trial; five patients received the lowest dose of 5,000 islet equivalents (IEQ/kg), and one patient was dosed with 10,000 IEQ/kg. Of the initial five patients, four have had a second dose and two patients have been observed for more than 12 months.  Of the two patients followed for more than…

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By Nic on 15 December 2008 at 7.59 pm
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Soooo…. THAT happened.

13 December 2008
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I’ve had a big week. Have been working on a launch since late August, and working my booty off. Some days it’s been like mortal combat on the work front. Some days I’ve spent 75% of my day inside meeting rooms, only to come out to about 55 emails which need actioning, meaning I don’t get home til really late at night, absolutely exhausted, only to have to do it all over again the next day. Some days I’ve had all of this, and several big hypos to boot, just to make things extra tricky.

However – my big launch happened on Thursday. Hurrah!! We cracked open the first bottle of bubbly at 2pm. Then, conveniently it was my work…

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By Nic on 13 December 2008 at 1.11 pm
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Well, that’s cheery.

10 December 2008
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Apparently diabetes is now responsible for more lower leg amputations than land mines.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/expert_advice/article5294364.ece

I try to stay motivated by the positive, but I have to say this gives me a bit of a jolt into behaving myself as well.

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By Nic on 10 December 2008 at 6.37 pm
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