What do you do with your sharps?

12 December 2010
15 Comments

Hi all – I had a request to post this, so here goes:

Hey guys,

My name is Oriana Hill, a registered nurse and I work at Diabetes Auckland.  I am currently looking at the issue of how easy or not it is to get rid of your sharps.  I do not have diabetes myself, I did however have gestational diabetes a few years ago, and I was put onto insulin and remember taking my sharps back to the clinic.  I know that although there is a needle exchange programme running in Auckland, that people with diabetes are unable to access this.

Just wanting to hear your stories: sharps and the effects not having a service

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By Nic on 12 December 2010 at 5.41 pm
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Aaron: My favourite diabetic resources.

8 December 2010
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Now that I’m out of NZ, I’ve been going through somewhat of a shift in my appreciation of the ease with which I used to be able to get healthcare, support, medication and diabetes paraphernalia. The effect has been though I’ve started using a whole new set of tools which I didn’t pay that much attention to in New Zealand or didn’t have occasion to appreciate as much as I do now.

Some of these Nic and I have talked about heaps but some of them might be new:

Log for Life

Everything that you want to know about this is in this post by Nic and at the Log For Life website. Now that…

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By Aaron on 8 December 2010 at 10.11 am
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Guest blog: a citizen of the world.

30 November 2010
12 Comments

Some of you will have read some of Gathoni’s story from a comment she made on a previous post. Her story was just so incredible I contacted her and asked if she’d be keen to do a guest post. She has written this amazing account, below. Gathoni – so much of what you say sounds so familiar. I love the way you write and I can feel the emotions you were feeling coming through in your prose. You are an amazing woman and your story is going to really resonate with this diabetes community. If you ever fancy a trip to NZ please get in touch – I’ll be there to pick you up at the airport!

My name is…

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By Nic on 30 November 2010 at 9.40 am
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A tricky dilemma!

26 November 2010
11 Comments

Hi everyone

I got this email from a T1 reader last week (names have been blanked to protect the innocent).

#%^&*’s Mum is a nightmare with filling my two year old son up with massive amounts of sugar e.g. yesterday she gave him 2 lollipops, 2 choc biscuits, jelly, mashmallows, choc milk and pancakes with syrup in the space of 2 hours! This is despite many times asking her not to.
New strategy: phoned her and said he was at an increased risk of getting T1 diabetes and huge amounts of sugar was putting pressure on his pancreas (I realise this is a stretch). Seemed to work.

What are your thoughts on this strategy? I am not entirely sure if

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By Nic on 26 November 2010 at 10.06 am
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Way to go TV3!!

23 November 2010
10 Comments

As some of you will know, I work for TVNZ, so me praising TV3 publicly (and linking to their Ondemand service, he he) are two events which don’t happen every day.

However, the “WAY TO GO TV3!!” is very well deserved in this case. I had lunch with a friend today who was telling me she’d seen a piece on Campbell Live about diabetes last week where they interviewed three type 1s.

I tracked down the video here and as a type 1 it is just soooooo refreshing to watch. The points are made loud and clear – us getting diabetes was unavoidable, not due to lifestyle factors or us eating…

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By Nic on 23 November 2010 at 5.55 pm
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