Hi all

This blog is currently in hiatus, for an indefinite time. If you wish to be emailed if/when it starts up again, please go to the Subscribe page and sign up with your email address – you’ll get an email should the blog start up again.

Meanwhile, there will be tidbits going up on the BeingDiabetic Facebook page, so feel free to go over there and become a fan too.

All the best

Nic and Aaron

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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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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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Well, readers, I’ve not come to this decision lightly. I’ve been going back and forward on it for many months, in fact. But, today I am announcing that BeingDiabetic is going on an extended break in 2011. There are a lot of challenging things coming up for Aaron and I next year and unfortunately this means even less time for the blog. And if I can’t do something of a decent quality, I’d rather not do it at all.

A lot goes on behind the scenes of a blog which you wouldn’t necessarily think of. There’s the obvious: researching and writing posts, finding and cropping images, coming up with interesting polls, reading the latest news on what’s happening in diabetes…

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