Wellington, here I come.

30 April 2010
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Morning all!

As this publishes I’ll be making my way to the airport with husband and son to get down to Diabetes New Zealand’s 2010 conference and 48th AGM, where I’ll be operating as MC.

I’m looking forward to it…. it’s always great to meet up with the people who are making things happen for us in this country, and of course to meet other diabetics or caregivers/family members of people with diabetes. So much to learn, so many stories to recount, so many people who UNDERSTAND.

The general run of events as follows:

Improving Wellbeing – How Diabetes Societies can contribute to productivity and economic growth – Suzanne Snively, Partner, PriceWaterhouseCooper
Presentation of

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By Nic on 30 April 2010 at 10.46 am
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Reminders…

8 April 2010
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Hi everyone

A few reminders for you today…

1. BeingDiabetic April dinner
We’re having another T1 dinner in Auckland on Monday, 19th April. Contact me if you’re keen to come along.

2.Welly!
I’m going to be in Wellington for the Diabetes NZ conference and keen to catch up for a drink with any BeingDiabetic people who want to on Friday, 30 April. Contact me if you’re about and want to come along.

3. Buy the Herald today
Ruth Hill has an article about her campaign to get insulin pumps/consumables funded in…

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By Nic on 8 April 2010 at 9.34 am
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NZ diabetes conferences this year.

14 March 2010
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Hi all

I’m pleased to be attending two diabetes conferences this year, both the Diabetes NZ one (I’m actually MCing this conference) and the Diabetes Youth NZ one.

Would love to hear from any of you who are going along to either so we can keep an eye out for each other! Details:

Diabetes New Zealand conference
1-2 May 2010
Mercure Hotel, Wellington

More info here.

Diabetes Youth New Zealand conference
20-22nd August 2010
Heritage, Rotorua

Details of conference still to be announced.

Aaron and I are thinking of doing a roadie from Auckland down to Rotorua so give us a holler if you’re keen for a convoy. BYO wine gums.

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By Nic on 14 March 2010 at 8.07 am
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Diabetes Youth Conference report 8: Doug Burns

21 September 2009
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Ex Mr Universe Mr Doug Burns was both the keynote speaker at dinner on Saturday, and final speaker at the conference on Sunday. Doug has had T1 since he was seven years old, and is now in his 40s… so he’s seen a lot of technology and improvements in the field come and go.

There wasn’t anything specific in his talk which I picked up on, apart from how good it was to have such a charismatic, enthusiastic, funny world champion in fitness telling his diabetes story and passing on his enthusiasm to everyone in the room. He – like Sean – didn’t have any other bodybuilding T1 role models to follow, so he chartered his own course (and he…

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By Nic on 21 September 2009 at 12.36 pm
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Diabetes Youth Conference report 7: Sean Busby.

15 September 2009
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Sean Busby was one of the international speakers brought to the conference, and in my opinion perfect as a role model for Diabetes Youth. You’ll see from the clip above that Sean was already a successful snowboarder at the age of 14 and was absolutely at the top of his game by the time he got to the age of 19. However he got increasingly sicker and sicker at that point in his life, and continued to struggle with intermittent bursts of uncontrollable vomiting. Alongside this, he lost shedloads of weight. It took him nine trips to the emergency room (A & E) for someone to finally pay attention to how sick he really was. It was at that…

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By Nic on 15 September 2009 at 3.20 pm
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