Aaron: Please don’t arrest me!

23 April 2010
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We had such a great catch up with everyone on Monday night at the BeingDiabetic dinner! It was one of those nights that if there weren’t kiddies that needed feeding and jobs that required sleep, we may well have ended up sitting in the restaurant till the wee small hours.

As you can well imagine (and as Nic mentioned in this post), whenever we meet, we all start catching up on what’s been happening with babies, jobs, husbands and wives and of course, diabetes. Some of these stories are absolutely hilarious, some shocking, some reminscing and some are best forgotten and with each new face comes a new story and some new laughs!

One…

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By Aaron on 23 April 2010 at 9.30 am
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Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems.

15 April 2010
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It’s been AGES since I posted about Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems (CGMS). This is not because I’ve lost interest: far from it. I am still very much looking foward to the day that all of us T1s have access to (and funding for; because let’s face it, there are very few of us who can afford to run one of these full time at the moment) these cool gadgets.

For those of you who are new to the concept, basically a CGMS is a unit which takes a blood sugar reading as frequently as every five minutes (some of them are slower, some faster). Per the picture on the right, all CGMS which are currently approved and on the market…

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By Nic on 15 April 2010 at 10.49 am
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Still catching up!

11 April 2010
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I know, I know… daylight savings was a whole week ago. It’s 8pm on Sunday night as I write this, and I’m sitting here looking out over our dark courtyard, still getting used to the fact that it’s pitch black from about 7pm onwards. Booooo, winter is starting to creep in (getting colder at nights too, innit).

This year I have  to admit I’ve been a bit hopeless on the clock-changing front. The family were away on the weekend at a friend’s bach in Muriwai (stunning, just stunning weather and good times had by all). I have a specialist apointment on Tuesday so have been making an effort the last few days to write down all my BGs and carbs…

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By Nic on 11 April 2010 at 9.08 pm
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Good move Diabetes Auckland!

26 February 2010
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Last May, I did a post about a great medical item I’d come across online, the i-Port. Basically, this little number works like an insulin pump cannula, but for people on injections – i.e. you insert it once every 3-4 days, and it has a line which goes directly into your subcutaneous layer for insulin to pass in. I actually contacted the company at the time to find out if they supplied NZ and they passed me through to their Australian distributors who pretty much shut me down, saying they were not in a position to distribute to NZ at that time.

I got my copy of Dia-log from Diabetes Auckland…

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By Nic on 26 February 2010 at 8.35 am
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Guest blog: Pumping for 25 years.

16 February 2010
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Pumping for 25 years – My story – Kathy Scott.

Palmerston North.

It is now 35 years since I was first diagnosed with diabetes. Yes, (January, 1975) I remember the day – even the hour! I knew what was wrong with me before going to the doctor, but in those days one didn’t say what you thought … you started with the symptoms. The main one that was causing the most distress, was vaginal thrush. Then I added on a few other things, the huge weight loss, the thirst, the constant peeing …..’Oh’ he said rubbing his hands gleefully (after all it was first thing on a Monday morning) ‘do you know what that sounds like?’

Unfortunately I did!…

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By Nic on 16 February 2010 at 9.24 am
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