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BeingDiabetic on indefinite hiatus.

Nic — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:11:44 +0000

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

Aaron: Ice Age

Aaron — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:30:38 +0000

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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Thursday Poll: Does injection site make a difference?

Aaron — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:35:16 +0000

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

Get it while it’s hot.

Nic — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:11:18 +0000

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…

Thursday poll: how do you treat your diabetes?

Nic — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:24:15 +0000

Thursday poll: diabetes and driving.

Nic — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:58:01 +0000

We’ve done a few posts before on diabetes and driving here at BeingDiabetic, and I had a reader suggest I do the below poll, which I thought was an interesting one.

If you have a topic for a poll you’d like me to put up, please contact me with your idea.

Thursday poll: autoimmune conditions.

Nic — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:02:57 +0000

When I was first diagnosed with T1 (well actually even now when people find out for the first time that I have it) there were a lot of questions around whether diabetes was in my family. I’ve heard differing statistics over the years about what percentage of us actually have diabetes in our genes, but it’s never as high as you might think.

I met up with a couple of other T1s the other day and we all discovered that each of us has a parent with Rheumatoid Arthritis (another autoimmune condition). Which brings me to my poll. (For a long list of autoimmune conditions, have a look here)

Thursday poll: how forgetful are you?

Nic — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:52:40 +0000

Funny really. The newly diagnosed may nod along to this. When I was first diagnosed with T1, Mum would call out that dinner was half an hour away (those were the days of Actrapid, where you needed to give it half an hour’s head start) and I’d sit at the end of my bed with my prepped syringe trying to psych myself up to inject it in my stomach. There is no way I would ever forget a single injection.

Fast forward 14 years (this is two years ago but when I was still on MDI). I would constantly ask my husband if he’d seen me with my injection pen in my hand as I’d often take an injection on…

Aaron: It’s Dad’s fault.

Aaron — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:00:10 +0000

I was perusing the annals of the internet last week and saw this article on Stuff.co.nz about how scientists have research indicating that fathers with high fat diets may be a cause of diabetes in their daughters?

You can read the full article here.

Seriously, I am all for research and understanding the causes and contributing factors behind T1 but come on, isn’t this a little ridiculous? It feels like there are all sorts of links between so many different conditions (white bread and cancer is one I hear often) and they just keep coming. Certainly, there are links between food and lifestyle which it is essential to know about for preventative measures but I can’t help…

Thursday poll: Have you ever used a Glucagon kit?

Aaron — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:00:19 +0000

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?