I was feeling pretty stressed out by the end of last year, and a friend suggested I ‘go and get a massage or something, something to really treat yourself and de-stress at the same time’. She mentioned she’d been to a reflexologist in London and had had really good results. I’d always been slightly curious of reflexology (I am a fan of acupuncture and cranial osteo and really believe in the energies in the body), so I wasted no time in looking one up and booking in an appointment.

For the un-initiated (from a layperson), reflexology is essentially the practice of massaging or manipulating areas of the feet (and apparently sometimes ears and hands too, but mainly feet) to…

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After 14 months of thinking, trying, getting, changing, adjusting, getting it right, getting it wrong, going from happy to frustrated, patient to wanting to jump out the window I have as of 14 minuted ago just attached my very own PUMP!!!

That’s right people, it’s mine and now I can officially name it, drop it, swim with it and even colour it in with twink (whiteout for any North Americans out there) if I want to.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

- Aaron

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…. has made its way back into my life again in the past week. Over the last six days I’ve had BGs in the middle of the night/in the morning of 22.3, 18.6, 15.4, 19.4 and 13.8. I’ve also greatly upped my basal overnight and it’s not even hitting the sides. Joy oh joy.

One thing is clear to me though – I absolutely have to be on a pump. On MDI I wouldn’t have any options at all (unless I fancied getting up every one to two hours in the night. Which I don’t).

Hopefully it will sort itself out soon.

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But it’s definitely fascinating! Did you read the story about the woman who gave birth to octuplets in the States this week? Amazing!!

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Another day, another study on diabetes – although this time it’s on type one, which is often the exception rather than the rule.

The Guardian ran this article about nine months ago outlining some research into the possibility that kids who take Vitamin D supplements are about a third less likely to develop Type 1 as they grow older. Apparently the basis for this research was that people in Northern countries (who get less sun, and therefore less natural Vitamin D) are more likely to develop diabetes. Also, people with darker skin (which doesn’t absorb Vitamin D as well apparently, this is a new fact to me today) are more prone to diabetes, which supports the theory…

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