Ahhhhh – that’s where I put it!

25 September 2009
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Got to work this morning with only 2u left in my pump and suddenly thought “oh no, what did I do with that vial of insulin I was going to bring in with me”?

I suddenly remembered, and turned away from my male boss towards the wall… I had pulled it straight out of the fridge at home so needed it to warm to room temperature reasonably quickly – and had stashed it in my bra on the drive in to bring up the temperature a bit!

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By Nic on 25 September 2009 at 10.44 am
Posted in Insulin Pumps, Slice of Life
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Guest Blog: The verdict on Labtests

24 September 2009
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There has been a far bit of noise in the news recently about the apparently poor quality of the Labtest services that have replaced Medlab in Auckland – a lot of’ it coming from GPs critiquing the turn around time of results being delivered for their patients if the reports from the NZ Herald are anything to go by with titles like “Doctors lay into Labtests’ poor service”. There have been claims that up to 68% of people are calling the service ‘bad or very bad’ and there was an article on the NZ Herald site last week about a type II diabetic woman from Papakura being diagnosed with prostate issues -something she is quite unlikely to have…

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By Aaron on 24 September 2009 at 10.46 pm
Posted in Medical Services
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Accu-chek Nano giveaway!

23 September 2009
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Keep an eye on this blog over the next couple of weeks because I’ve just confirmed with Roche that they are going to give me one of the new Accu-chek Performa Nanos (see pic on left) to give away to one lucky reader. More details soon but it’s likely to be in early October.

If you can’t wait that long though, I’ve just been told by Roche that pharmacies will be ordering them in from Monday next week.

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By Nic on 23 September 2009 at 2.29 pm
Posted in Technology & Equipment
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Guest Blog: Freestyle Lite

23 September 2009
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I’ve done a couple of posts in the past in which I’ve talked about testers- how they seem to be lagging technology wise, how treatments have advanced since the days of the reflolux and Nic has talked about the relative benefits and pitfalls of meters in this post about a month ago but I’ve I’ve been meaning to write a post on the new FreeStyle Lite for a while now so here goes…

Not that long ago I learnt via Nic that there was about to be a couple of new meters coming onto the NZ market which included the FreeStyle Light, a snazzy little meter that she had used before…

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By Aaron on 23 September 2009 at 6.50 am
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Diabetes Youth Conference report 8: Doug Burns

21 September 2009
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Ex Mr Universe Mr Doug Burns was both the keynote speaker at dinner on Saturday, and final speaker at the conference on Sunday. Doug has had T1 since he was seven years old, and is now in his 40s… so he’s seen a lot of technology and improvements in the field come and go.

There wasn’t anything specific in his talk which I picked up on, apart from how good it was to have such a charismatic, enthusiastic, funny world champion in fitness telling his diabetes story and passing on his enthusiasm to everyone in the room. He – like Sean – didn’t have any other bodybuilding T1 role models to follow, so he chartered his own course (and he…

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By Nic on 21 September 2009 at 12.36 pm
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