The perils of baking.

18 October 2010
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It wasn’t until I was pregnant and had to avoid uncooked eggs that I realised how bad I am when I bake at  licking cake batter off my fingers. I’m fastidious about washing my hands frequently when baking or cooking though I’ll add!

As you can see from the pic on the right, I was baking up a storm last week as it was my son’s first birthday, and we had a party for him on Saturday (what you see isn’t even the half of it). I was pretty well behaved this time around and didn’t eat any sweets or even batter, and in fact went low on blood sugar as I was decorating the kiwi (it’s a kiwi, not…

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By Nic on 18 October 2010 at 10.00 am
Posted in Food, Hypos & Hypers, Slice of Life
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Aaron: Tramping the Laurentians – basal rate success!

8 October 2010
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You know how sometimes it’s the little victories that make the difference to your diabetes day?

Well, I had one of these on the weekend of the 20th September when I went hiking in the Laurentian mountains north of Montréal and, being quite chuffed with myself I wanted to share it with you all.

As I mentioned in my catch up post, the past 4 weeks have been a diabetes HELL for hypos for me and I was starting to get quite annoyed about it. When we arrived, I purchased a 2KG pack of white sugar for hypos at home and there is no more than 750G left of that pack now so that might give you…

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By Aaron on 8 October 2010 at 9.15 am
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Thursday poll: do your sugars change with your menstrual cycle?

7 October 2010
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Sorry guys – this one’s not applicable to you. Ladies – I’d love to know what your answer to this question is (and I suspect the comments area is going to be more useful for this particular poll). I ask because I’m still trying to nail my approach to my own situation, which is huge spikes overnight for about a week of every month. My overall insulin resistance climbs too. So much so that I actually have two quite different basal patterns programmed in to my pump.

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By Nic on 7 October 2010 at 11.14 am
Posted in Hypos & Hypers, Monitoring
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Aaron: Diabetes and Montréal, Canada.

5 October 2010
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Wow. Canada.

It has been almost six full weeks since we left New Zealand now and what an eventful six weeks they have been!

I’ve already posted about our time in America and a little bit about the trip via Tahiti so it’s about time I get you all up to date with Canada!

Of course, the first couple of weeks were busy with lots of time spent basking in the 30+ degree heat and taking an initial look around town. My former workmates in NZ had given us a gift of bikes which we immediately put to use tripping all over the city enjoying the parks, festivals and summer activities that Montréal has…

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By Aaron on 5 October 2010 at 9.15 am
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Come along summer!!

27 September 2010
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Well hellloooo there BeingDiabetic friends! Spring hiatus is over, but unfortunately my Spring break is still underway [status update: cast comes off on Thursday, will then need to wear a brace thingee for a couple of weeks, but thankfully I'm back into typing with two hands and can even unclip my cannula on my own again! I am also thrilled that I should be back to normal in time to create an awesome first birthday cake for my little buddy Hugo in mid October]. How have you all been?

I’ve been a busy little beaver, mainly with moving house. This was a first for me on many counts: first…

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By Nic on 27 September 2010 at 9.07 am
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