Aaron: The statistics

14 December 2010
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As I approach my 20th anniversary of diagnosis started thinking about how much diabetes I must have ‘done’ during that time so I’ve done a rough calculation based on what I have at hand and here it is.

I think it makes for an interesting read!

38,764 x injections
36,400 x fingerpricks
100+ bloodtests
185 x cannula changes
5000+ hypos
5000+ highs
200+ Dr visits
50+ hospital trips
2 x hospitalisations
756,864,000 x heartbeats

I’m not even going to try and start to calculate the amount of hypo treatments I’ve eaten in it’s various forms in KGs sorry!

- Aaron

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By Aaron on 14 December 2010 at 10.02 am
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Aaron: Beer, bear and bare.

10 December 2010
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Being essentially on holiday, I have found myself doing a lot of things in Canada that normally just wouldn’t be a part of my life in New Zealand.

Generally speaking I’ve been getting a lot more exercise than previously by walking and biking all over the city (no car you see), I’ve been going and doing decent hikes of 4 hours plus at least once every three weeks and I’ve also been drinking a lot more alcohol too to take just three examples.

All of these can be attributed to still being in a tourist mindset and as such, walking around this amazing city with ‘tourist goggles’ on as I like to call it – getting out to a…

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By Aaron on 10 December 2010 at 9.10 am
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Diabetes on a dartboard.

3 December 2010
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Some days it feels like diabetes is Public Enemy Number 1. It’s days like these I would be tempted to sketch out what my diabetes would look like if it were a person, stick it on a dartboard and take aim at it with a nice sharp dart (or perhaps a syringe, just to make a point).

I had a night like this last week. Had one of those hypos which you know is going to be bad news. I took a reasonably large amount of insulin to go with my dinner, and by only 40 minutes in I was already at a 3.4. Ran to the kitchen and started loading up on glucose. In the meantime I felt the…

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By Nic on 3 December 2010 at 10.14 am
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Aaron: #bgnow

2 November 2010
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This last week has been a mixture of diabetes good and diabetes hell with a whole heap of random highs and lows plaguing me at various points day and night inciting more than one moment of cursing diabetes to hell I have to admit even though I’m not really one to sit around feeling sorry for myself (which I hope comes across!).

Moaning aside though, I’ve put the spikes and troughs down to the change in seasons again, me fighting a tickly throat for the last two days and a little bit of stress chucked in with too little sleep and the odd bottle of beer as I’ve transitioned out of my current job into a new one which is…

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By Aaron on 2 November 2010 at 8.01 am
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Aaron: The trick to trick-or-treating

1 November 2010
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Today is Halloween in Canada and man do they get into it!

Every shop you look at is full of displays with pumpkins and ghouls and decorations, supermarkets are selling autumn wares, huge pumpkins, tiny pumpkins and gourds are filling the shelves and streets outside shops. Party invites are being sent out left right and centre and people are all a flutter talking non stop about what their costumes are going to be. At times I honestly feel like I’m back at high school listening to the girls talking about their ball dresses!

Seriously though, it seems to me that after Christmas, this holiday is the biggest in Canada and people absolutely love getting into it in…

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By Aaron on 1 November 2010 at 8.00 am
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