Aaron: #bgnow

2 November 2010
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This last week has been a mixture of diabetes good and diabetes hell with a whole heap of random highs and lows plaguing me at various points day and night inciting more than one moment of cursing diabetes to hell I have to admit even though I’m not really one to sit around feeling sorry for myself (which I hope comes across!).

Moaning aside though, I’ve put the spikes and troughs down to the change in seasons again, me fighting a tickly throat for the last two days and a little bit of stress chucked in with too little sleep and the odd bottle of beer as I’ve transitioned out of my current job into a new one which is…

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By Aaron on 2 November 2010 at 8.01 am
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Aaron: The trick to trick-or-treating

1 November 2010
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Today is Halloween in Canada and man do they get into it!

Every shop you look at is full of displays with pumpkins and ghouls and decorations, supermarkets are selling autumn wares, huge pumpkins, tiny pumpkins and gourds are filling the shelves and streets outside shops. Party invites are being sent out left right and centre and people are all a flutter talking non stop about what their costumes are going to be. At times I honestly feel like I’m back at high school listening to the girls talking about their ball dresses!

Seriously though, it seems to me that after Christmas, this holiday is the biggest in Canada and people absolutely love getting into it in…

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By Aaron on 1 November 2010 at 8.00 am
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Aaron: The Finesse ‘Patch Pen’. Insulin Pump meets pen?

22 October 2010
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I was writing some posts today and as I punched the keys I spotted twitter in the top corner of my screen with news from DiabetesMine about a new development in insulin delivery that has just been approved by the FDA (or Federal Drug Administration of America which is their PHARMAC).

I had a read and thought it worthy of a mention.

The full article can be read here but for those of you that don’t have time to read it (it’s short!) here is the essential gist of it all:

It’s being described as a ‘Patch pump’
Extremely small at only a few centimeters
Contains a 200 unit reservoir of insulin (the same

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By Aaron on 22 October 2010 at 9.00 am
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Thursday poll: Have you ever used a Glucagon kit?

21 October 2010
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It’s not something that I’ve ever thought about much but the good ol’ Glucagon kits is a bit of a good thing really, isn’t it?

Everyone’s hypos are different and luckily I don’t loose the plot when I’m hypo (even when I’m really hypo) so I’ve only used mine once on myself and then one other time on a stranger on a tour bus.

What about you guys?

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By Aaron on 21 October 2010 at 9.00 am
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Aaron: The first insulin

19 October 2010
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This post is thanks directly to a comment made by Sarah on Nic’s post from a couple of weeks ago so I take no credit for discovering it or for writing it because I’m just paraphrasing!

In any case, it was a very interesting and well written/researched article published by the NY times about an exhibition taking place at the New York Historical Society regarding the history of insulin, but more specifically focusing on it’s actual invention, the first patients to receive it, and the behind the scenes story of it all.

As I said, the article is very well written, complete with a great description of the difference between T1 and T2 so that people are clear…

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By Aaron on 19 October 2010 at 9.29 am
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