Aaron: Speechless.

17 July 2010
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A good friend of mine has been running a shop on Dominion Road for the last ten years and as you can imagine, has seen it all. Dominion road is one of the more colorful neighbourhoods in Auckland with a good mix of people including a few undesirables, the weirdos, funnies, friendlies and everything in between.

I’m sure she thought she had seen pretty much everything that Dominion road had to show her by now but on Wednesday, in came someone that tried her patience in a totally new way!

My friend runs a recycled fashion boutique and said customer had come in to sell some shoes. Just as this potential customer arrived though, said friend was in the throes of…

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By Aaron on 17 July 2010 at 7.00 pm
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Guest blog: Sweet confessions.

14 July 2010
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I received this by email from Daniel Howarth, who some of you will know from Auckland DHB. I will be sending my postcard this week and encourage you to do the same. The results will all be collated into a book in due course.

Read on for your instructions….

A big group of young teenagers with diabetes were given a postcard and told they could write anything to, or about their diabetes… obviously there were a few “I eat sweets without my mum knowing” type responses but there was also a huge amount of heart wrenching deep ones…”I think I let my family down so I lie about my blood sugars” and so on…

All of the group responded well…

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By Nic on 14 July 2010 at 8.30 am
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Aaron: Trypanophobic?

6 July 2010
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Happily, even before I was diagnosed with diabetes, needles were not something that I’ve was ever been that bothered about.

I mean, I don’t think anybody is particularly looking forward to seeing a needle descend into their flesh but some are a little more squeemish than others and some of those people are inevitably diabetics.

Then there are the people around us that don’t like seeing them including our family members, colleagues and friends. I remember one colleague who had to turn away when I did finger pricks and a cousin that almost passes out when she sees a needle come out so the problem is real and it’s out there.

Personally, I can’t imagine that there are many conditions…

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By Aaron on 6 July 2010 at 10.21 am
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Yay!! Oh, stink.

2 July 2010
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A courier came to the door the other day and dropped an interesting-looking parcel on the doorstep. I didn’t remember ordering anything exciting so expected to see my husband’s name on the outside. Leant over and oooooh! It had my name on it! A parcel, for me!

Excitedly I came inside and ripped it open – only to find two boxes of site insertions inside. Boooo. Had totally forgotten about ordering them the day before. It’s like when you hear a text come through on your phone and think “ooooh, a text for me!” and it’s just from Vodafone telling you about the latest special. Stink.

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By Nic on 2 July 2010 at 8.45 am
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Lame.

16 June 2010
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I took my baby boy up to Wriggle ‘n Rhyme at the library last week. For the uninitiated, W n R is 25-30min singing and moving to music thingee that the libraries hold everywhere (all through the country I think, definitely all around Auckland). It’s really cute – they have a big colourful, glittery mat, and all the kids and their parents sit around it and sing some songs and wave arms about etc etc.

When I left the house I checked my BG and it was 6.5 but it was only an hour after a meal. The thought crossed my mind that I was heading for a low but I didn’t really have time to do anything about it…

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By Nic on 16 June 2010 at 11.01 am
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