Aaron: My favourite diabetic resources.

8 December 2010
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Now that I’m out of NZ, I’ve been going through somewhat of a shift in my appreciation of the ease with which I used to be able to get healthcare, support, medication and diabetes paraphernalia. The effect has been though I’ve started using a whole new set of tools which I didn’t pay that much attention to in New Zealand or didn’t have occasion to appreciate as much as I do now.

Some of these Nic and I have talked about heaps but some of them might be new:

Log for Life

Everything that you want to know about this is in this post by Nic and at the Log For Life website. Now that…

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By Aaron on 8 December 2010 at 10.11 am
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Thursday Poll: Are we behind the eight ball?

4 November 2010
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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
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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 Finesse ‘Patch Pen’. Insulin Pump meets pen?

22 October 2010
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I was writing some posts today and as I punched the keys I spotted twitter in the top corner of my screen with news from DiabetesMine about a new development in insulin delivery that has just been approved by the FDA (or Federal Drug Administration of America which is their PHARMAC).

I had a read and thought it worthy of a mention.

The full article can be read here but for those of you that don’t have time to read it (it’s short!) here is the essential gist of it all:

It’s being described as a ‘Patch pump’
Extremely small at only a few centimeters
Contains a 200 unit reservoir of insulin (the same

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By Aaron on 22 October 2010 at 9.00 am
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Aaron: The first insulin

19 October 2010
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This post is thanks directly to a comment made by Sarah on Nic’s post from a couple of weeks ago so I take no credit for discovering it or for writing it because I’m just paraphrasing!

In any case, it was a very interesting and well written/researched article published by the NY times about an exhibition taking place at the New York Historical Society regarding the history of insulin, but more specifically focusing on it’s actual invention, the first patients to receive it, and the behind the scenes story of it all.

As I said, the article is very well written, complete with a great description of the difference between T1 and T2 so that people are clear…

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By Aaron on 19 October 2010 at 9.29 am
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