Aaron: Giving the nod

23 December 2010
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Outside of the Drs and nurses, dieticians and podiatrists and everyone else involved in our healthcare there is a hugely important role played by those people in our lives that might not have formal health training but nevertheless have a role just as important (more in my opinion) than the aforementioned professionals – our friends and families.

That said, since this will be one of my last posts on the blog, I wanted to properly take a moment to acknowledge the people in my life, our lives, who make living with Diabetes that much easier, who listen when we need to bitch about it, laugh about it when we do and strategise when it comes to that too!

My partner…

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By Aaron on 23 December 2010 at 9.31 am
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Aaron: Ice Age

21 December 2010
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One of the things that I was intrigued about diabetes wise when I was getting ready to come to Canada was whether the weather (more specifically the seriously cold weather) would effect my diabetes beyond the normal stuff which I knew about already like don’t freeze insulin and keep the tester warm enough to do tests etc.

Well, it’s -15 degrees out today and so I’ve been getting a little practise at this diabetes in the extreme cold thing but it’s nowhere near as bad as I thought to be honest. There are a couple of tricks like having to keep your fingers warm to bleed well enough which is a problem when testing outside for example and keeping

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By Aaron on 21 December 2010 at 9.30 am
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Thursday Poll: Does injection site make a difference?

16 December 2010
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I don’t know about you guys put personally, I’m starting to discover that the site of my cannula might be making a difference to my BGs. The question I’m asking today, then, is whether you have noticed:

- Aaron

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By Aaron on 16 December 2010 at 10.35 am
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Aaron: The statistics

14 December 2010
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As I approach my 20th anniversary of diagnosis started thinking about how much diabetes I must have ‘done’ during that time so I’ve done a rough calculation based on what I have at hand and here it is.

I think it makes for an interesting read!

38,764 x injections
36,400 x fingerpricks
100+ bloodtests
185 x cannula changes
5000+ hypos
5000+ highs
200+ Dr visits
50+ hospital trips
2 x hospitalisations
756,864,000 x heartbeats

I’m not even going to try and start to calculate the amount of hypo treatments I’ve eaten in it’s various forms in KGs sorry!

- Aaron

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By Aaron on 14 December 2010 at 10.02 am
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Aaron: Beer, bear and bare.

10 December 2010
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Being essentially on holiday, I have found myself doing a lot of things in Canada that normally just wouldn’t be a part of my life in New Zealand.

Generally speaking I’ve been getting a lot more exercise than previously by walking and biking all over the city (no car you see), I’ve been going and doing decent hikes of 4 hours plus at least once every three weeks and I’ve also been drinking a lot more alcohol too to take just three examples.

All of these can be attributed to still being in a tourist mindset and as such, walking around this amazing city with ‘tourist goggles’ on as I like to call it – getting out to a…

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By Aaron on 10 December 2010 at 9.10 am
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