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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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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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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A very cool D shot from one of our own.

17 December 2010
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I was super impressed when I saw this piece of art constructed by one of the BeingDiabetic community members, Tania.

Awesome!

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By Nic on 17 December 2010 at 10.45 am
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4, 200 km for diabetes!

13 December 2010
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Thanks to Grace McKnight for sending me an email about this challenge. Grace is a T1 (since age 13) and her Dad, Colin and his friend David have decided to bike all the way across Australia (from Perth to Sydney), all the while raising money for Diabetes New Zealand. They started on Thursday.

In their words:

This madness of cycling from Freemantle (Perth) to Sydney in summer was David’s idea but it did not take any arm bending to get on my bike for this. Depending on the winds it should take us between 28 to 34 days, so maybe an average of 120 to 140 km a day. We will carry most of what we need with top ups…

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By Nic on 13 December 2010 at 9.30 am
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