BeingDiabetic on indefinite hiatus.

26 December 2010
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Hi all

This blog is currently in hiatus, for an indefinite time. If you wish to be emailed if/when it starts up again, please go to the Subscribe page and sign up with your email address – you’ll get an email should the blog start up again.

Meanwhile, there will be tidbits going up on the BeingDiabetic Facebook page, so feel free to go over there and become a fan too.

All the best

Nic and Aaron

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By Nic on 26 December 2010 at 11.11 am
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A Christmas farewell.

24 December 2010
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As most of you will know from my post a couple of weeks ago, BeingDiabetic is going into an indefinite hiatus after today as we roll into 2011.

Aaron and I both wanted to do a bit of a wrap up, so here goes…

Nic

Well, it’s hard to believe that BeingDiabetic has been running now for 2.5 years, although at the same time I look back on the thousands of hours we’ve clocked up in bringing it to you it almost seems surprising that it’s only been that long! (if that makes any sense).

We’ve come a long way since the first posts in July 2008 (see them…

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By Nic on 24 December 2010 at 9.04 am
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Another great piece of D art.

22 December 2010
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Thanks very much to Nickie who sent me this picture last week. I’ve copied in her message below. Well done Blake for educating all the people at school!

the kids and (I supervised the hot glue gun) made this up for our ‘home school’ project fair.   Some mums even had serious tears in their eyes.  They said they understand Blake has to have needles etc – but when it was displayed this way it brought it home to them what he (and us) have to go thru.
This apparantly provoked alot of childrens’ discussions about Blake on the way home in parent’s cars from this project fair.

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By Nic on 22 December 2010 at 10.24 am
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LCT’s DIABECELL® Registered for Sale and Use in Russia

20 December 2010
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Hi everyone – this just hot off the press from an email I just received from Living Cell Technologies, which is the company doing pig cell trials in NZ under Professor Bob Elliot. This is pretty big news! Press release dropped in verbatim, below…

Company Announcement10 December 2010 – Sydney, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand– Living Cell Technologies Limited (ASX: LCT; OTCQX: LVCLY), a global company pioneering the development of cell implants to treat diabetes, announced today that its Russian subsidiary, LCT Biomedical Limited, has received registration of the Company’s groundbreaking diabetes treatment, DIABECELL, as a marketable medical technology in Russia. Registration allows for the sale and use of the DIABECELL technology in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes…

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By Nic on 20 December 2010 at 12.51 pm
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She gon’ blow this joint up!

20 December 2010
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I went on a last minute work trip last week, to Adelaide for a few days. I used to travel a lot more frequently before I had a mortgage and a family (!) but these days (judging by the lack of stamps in my passport), an overseas trip is more of a once a year type thing.

Dunno about you, but airports (and all the personnel which go with ‘em) always make me feel a bit nervous. Not nervous as in shaking in my boots, but I always feel like I have this fake smile plastered on my face as I go through customs and the scanning areas which is supposed to convey a sort of, “HI GUYS, I’m just…

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By Nic on 20 December 2010 at 9.32 am
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