T1 kids get a video game just for them!

25 May 2010
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Sophie sent me a link a couple of weeks ago about this and it sounds great! Basically, Bayer have got together with Nintendo to create a video game just for kids with type 1.

As you can see from the image in this post, the name of the game is “Knock ‘em Dead”. As far as I can tell, the game itself isn’t based on a diabetes narrative (I think this is a good thing), but kids get extra points to play the game via doing blood tests.

Essentially, the Didget meter (shown in the image, plugged into the Nintendo console) is based on the regular BG tester from Bayer called a CONTOUR. It takes the same test strips and…

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By Nic on 25 May 2010 at 9.58 am
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Porridge.

24 May 2010
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Purely selfish post here.

I’m thinking porridge might be my breakfast of choice as winter approaches (who am I kidding, it’s pretty much here, right?). This might sound strange to some of you but I’ve never eaten porridge (in memory), so am somewhat uninformed on the porridge front.

In particular I was wondering if any of you have a killer recipe (yes I think you can still call things a recipe if there are only two or three ingredients) along with carb count? Help a porridge virgin out, would you? Do people find it goes well with your sugars?

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By Nic on 24 May 2010 at 10.48 am
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Joyeux anniversaire.

23 May 2010
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Happy anniversary to meeeee. Today, I have had type 1 diabetes for 16 years. Exactly half of my life. Woahhhh.

I feel simultaneously old, and fortunate today. I remember when I was 16, thinking I was pretty onto it and sort of grown up, and now I’m DOUBLE that age – crikey! The fortunate bit – I don’t have a single diabetes complication to date (despite doing my best to ignore my diabetes for many years in my late teens and twenties), and I am now fortunate to have a regime which (on the whole) works really well for me and is limited in its invasiveness in my life. I’ve been through many regimes – clear + cloudy from a…

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By Nic on 23 May 2010 at 10.45 am
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It’s back to work I go.

21 May 2010
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Ahhhhh, where have the months gone? It seems like a long time ago, plus a short time ago I was giving my farewell speech at work before stepping out into a planned four weeks’ maternity leave which turned out to be just two.

I’d planned to return to work by June/July (this AKL mortgage ain’t gon’ pay itself unfortunately), but an opportunity came up which I couldn’t refuse, so as this post goes live I’ll be turning up for my first day back in the land of the employed. I had actually planned to return to the ad agency I was working for, but as it happened, they only had an opening for full-time work, and I didn’t want to…

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By Nic on 21 May 2010 at 8.46 am
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Aaron: Cool, but very creepy.

20 May 2010
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Hi everyone!

It’s been a while since I did a post what will all the great content that Nic has been working hard to get you you, the faithful, over the last couple of weeks. Honestly, I often marvel at how Nic manages to juggle it all!

I was talking to a website developer the other day about good resources and communities on the web for the development community and he mentioned this guy called Scott Hanselman who also happens to be a T1 and often talks about diabetes related issues as well as running a type of online fund-raising movement. In and of itself, that is nice but not earth shattering (I’m sure he’s a good guy) but…

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By Aaron on 20 May 2010 at 9.03 am
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