Aaron: The statistics

14 December 2010
8 Comments

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
Posted in Hypos & Hypers, Monitoring, Slice of Life
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What do you do with your sharps?

12 December 2010
15 Comments

Hi all – I had a request to post this, so here goes:

Hey guys,

My name is Oriana Hill, a registered nurse and I work at Diabetes Auckland.  I am currently looking at the issue of how easy or not it is to get rid of your sharps.  I do not have diabetes myself, I did however have gestational diabetes a few years ago, and I was put onto insulin and remember taking my sharps back to the clinic.  I know that although there is a needle exchange programme running in Auckland, that people with diabetes are unable to access this.

Just wanting to hear your stories: sharps and the effects not having a service

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By Nic on 12 December 2010 at 5.41 pm
Posted in Community, Monitoring
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Staying motivated.

17 November 2010
19 Comments

Hi everyone

Interesting re the timing of receiving this email…. I have just been swearing at my BG meter and diabetes in general for even existing after a complete rollercoaster day of highs and lows ranging from 2.5 to 20.5 (there – none of us are perfect at allll are we?!)

Anyway, here’s the email from a BeingDiabetic reader (please note there is another question after the motivation question). Answer none. Answer one. Answer both. Whatever you fancy!

I have a question for the blog:
I am really struggling to stay moviated at controlling my diabetes!!  I have been a diabetic for about 8 years now, I was diagnosed when I was 22.  I find that I can

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By Nic on 17 November 2010 at 9.59 am
Posted in Monitoring
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Thursday Poll: Are we behind the eight ball?

4 November 2010
15 Comments

I dunno about you guys but when I was a kid (less so as an adult now) I got the distinct feeling that here in NZ, we were very, very behind in the treatments, technologies and knowledge from a diabetes perspective.

Lantus has only just been subsidized in NZ compared to at least 6 years ago in Europe, we didn’t seem to get blood testers anywhere near as fast as North America or even Australia did and Analog insulins had to be fought hard for back in the 1990’s so that we had the luxury of not having to wait for 30 minutes after taking a dose of Actrapid which along with monotard was pretty much the only choice of treatment I…

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By Aaron on 4 November 2010 at 8.00 am
Posted in Medical Services, Monitoring, Science & Research, Technology & Equipment
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Watch a video, help a needy T1 child. Do it!!

3 November 2010
2 Comments

I got this info through by email today and had to pass it on to the whole BeingDiabetic community!!

It’s World Diabetes Day on Sunday 14 November, and the Diabetes Hands Foundation have set up an awesome initiative at bigbluetest.org where they encourage all people with diabetes to test their BG at 2pm on the 14th November, record it, do 14mins of activity and record it again. The even more compelling part of their campaign is the video below: Roche has underwritten the production of the video and will make a donation to Insulin For Life for every view the video receives (up to $75,000). Insulin for Life…

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By Nic on 3 November 2010 at 6.29 pm
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