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BeingDiabetic on indefinite hiatus.

Nic — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:11:44 +0000

Hi all

This blog is currently in hiatus, for an indefinite time. If you wish to be emailed if/when it starts up again, please go to the Subscribe page and sign up with your email address – you’ll get an email should the blog start up again.

Meanwhile, there will be tidbits going up on the BeingDiabetic Facebook page, so feel free to go over there and become a fan too.

All the best

Nic and Aaron

A Christmas farewell.

Nic — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:04:48 +0000

As most of you will know from my post a couple of weeks ago, BeingDiabetic is going into an indefinite hiatus after today as we roll into 2011.

Aaron and I both wanted to do a bit of a wrap up, so here goes…

Nic

Well, it’s hard to believe that BeingDiabetic has been running now for 2.5 years, although at the same time I look back on the thousands of hours we’ve clocked up in bringing it to you it almost seems surprising that it’s only been that long! (if that makes any sense).

We’ve come a long way since the first posts in July 2008 (see them here). We’ve…

Aaron: Giving the nod

Aaron — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:31:42 +0000

Outside of the Drs and nurses, dieticians and podiatrists and everyone else involved in our healthcare there is a hugely important role played by those people in our lives that might not have formal health training but nevertheless have a role just as important (more in my opinion) than the aforementioned professionals – our friends and families.

That said, since this will be one of my last posts on the blog, I wanted to properly take a moment to acknowledge the people in my life, our lives, who make living with Diabetes that much easier, who listen when we need to bitch about it, laugh about it when we do and strategise when it comes to that too!

My partner…

Another great piece of D art.

Nic — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:24:34 +0000

Thanks very much to Nickie who sent me this picture last week. I’ve copied in her message below. Well done Blake for educating all the people at school!

the kids and (I supervised the hot glue gun) made this up for our ‘home school’ project fair. Some mums even had serious tears in their eyes. They said they understand Blake has to have needles etc – but when it was displayed this way it brought it home to them what he (and us) have to go thru. This apparantly provoked alot of childrens’ discussions about Blake on the way home in parent’s cars from this project fair.

Aaron: Ice Age

Aaron — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:30:38 +0000

One of the things that I was intrigued about diabetes wise when I was getting ready to come to Canada was whether the weather (more specifically the seriously cold weather) would effect my diabetes beyond the normal stuff which I knew about already like don’t freeze insulin and keep the tester warm enough to do tests etc. Well, it’s -15 degrees out today and so I’ve been getting a little practise at this diabetes in the extreme cold thing but it’s nowhere near as bad as I thought to be honest. There are a couple of tricks like having to keep your fingers warm to bleed well enough which is a problem when testing outside for example and keeping

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LCT’s DIABECELL® Registered for Sale and Use in Russia

Nic — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:51:23 +0000

Hi everyone – this just hot off the press from an email I just received from Living Cell Technologies, which is the company doing pig cell trials in NZ under Professor Bob Elliot. This is pretty big news! Press release dropped in verbatim, below…

Company Announcement10 December 2010 – Sydney, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand– Living Cell Technologies Limited (ASX: LCT; OTCQX: LVCLY), a global company pioneering the development of cell implants to treat diabetes, announced today that its Russian subsidiary, LCT Biomedical Limited, has received registration of the Company’s groundbreaking diabetes treatment, DIABECELL, as a marketable medical technology in Russia. Registration allows for the sale and use of the DIABECELL technology in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes in…

She gon’ blow this joint up!

Nic — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:32:29 +0000

I went on a last minute work trip last week, to Adelaide for a few days. I used to travel a lot more frequently before I had a mortgage and a family (!) but these days (judging by the lack of stamps in my passport), an overseas trip is more of a once a year type thing.

Dunno about you, but airports (and all the personnel which go with ‘em) always make me feel a bit nervous. Not nervous as in shaking in my boots, but I always feel like I have this fake smile plastered on my face as I go through customs and the scanning areas which is supposed to convey a sort of, “HI GUYS, I’m just…

A very cool D shot from one of our own.

Nic — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:45:35 +0000

I was super impressed when I saw this piece of art constructed by one of the BeingDiabetic community members, Tania.

Awesome!

Thursday Poll: Does injection site make a difference?

Aaron — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:35:16 +0000

I don’t know about you guys put personally, I’m starting to discover that the site of my cannula might be making a difference to my BGs. The question I’m asking today, then, is whether you have noticed:

- Aaron

Aaron: The statistics

Aaron — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:02:12 +0000

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