Good move Diabetes Auckland!

26 February 2010
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Last May, I did a post about a great medical item I’d come across online, the i-Port. Basically, this little number works like an insulin pump cannula, but for people on injections – i.e. you insert it once every 3-4 days, and it has a line which goes directly into your subcutaneous layer for insulin to pass in. I actually contacted the company at the time to find out if they supplied NZ and they passed me through to their Australian distributors who pretty much shut me down, saying they were not in a position to distribute to NZ at that time.

I got my copy of Dia-log from Diabetes Auckland…

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By Nic on 26 February 2010 at 8.35 am
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JDRF Launches Adult Type 1 “Toolkit”.

25 February 2010
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I saw this news come across the wire yesterday from TuDiabetes.

The kit sounds really useful, here is the outline of it:

Written by people who have type 1 diabetes, the Toolkit is an essential “how-to” guidebook about living with the disease. It offers information and advice on a plethora of topics, such as how to deal with the diagnosis and day-to-day management of diabetes, how to tell friends about the disease, and how to juggle the demands of diabetes at work. It describes how diabetes affects physical and psychological health, relationships, and parenting. It gives tips for approaching things like diet, exercise, travel, and work and explains how to educate others about type 1, especially on what to do…

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By Nic on 25 February 2010 at 9.18 am
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Would you buy a second-hand insulin pump?

24 February 2010
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A reader sent me an email today mentioning that there was an insulin pump for sale on TradeMe, so I went along to check it out. I came across this listing (image posted above). It got me thinking…. would I think about buying it?

Being lucky as I was to be granted a free loan pump from WDHB, I didn’t have to weigh this sort of option up in the end. However, if I’d not been so lucky I would have been almost certainly back to multiple daily injections by now (which…

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By Nic on 24 February 2010 at 8.27 am
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Re-name Type 1 diabetes.

23 February 2010
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Good old Facebook. How did we ever lend our name to causes before it?!

Stephen pointed out that someone has started a Facebook page for people to join, encouraging Diabetes UK to change the name of Type 1 Diabetes to something different, to differentiate it from Type 2. Here’s the blurb from the page:

Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are different – but the media treats both conditions as the same. Articles complaining of burdensome diabetics draining NHS resources are harmful and hurtful and are refering to patients with often preventable Type 2 diabetes, but the media frequently fail to make this distinction prefering the single term diabetics.…

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By Nic on 23 February 2010 at 9.08 am
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BGs.

22 February 2010
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By Nic on 22 February 2010 at 8.44 am
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