A tricky dilemma!

26 November 2010
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Hi everyone

I got this email from a T1 reader last week (names have been blanked to protect the innocent).

#%^&*’s Mum is a nightmare with filling my two year old son up with massive amounts of sugar e.g. yesterday she gave him 2 lollipops, 2 choc biscuits, jelly, mashmallows, choc milk and pancakes with syrup in the space of 2 hours! This is despite many times asking her not to.
New strategy: phoned her and said he was at an increased risk of getting T1 diabetes and huge amounts of sugar was putting pressure on his pancreas (I realise this is a stretch). Seemed to work.

What are your thoughts on this strategy? I am not entirely sure if

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By Nic on 26 November 2010 at 10.06 am
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Thursday poll: diabetes and driving.

25 November 2010
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We’ve done a few posts before on diabetes and driving here at BeingDiabetic, and I had a reader suggest I do the below poll, which I thought was an interesting one.

If you have a topic for a poll you’d like me to put up, please contact me with your idea.

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By Nic on 25 November 2010 at 9.58 am
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Way to go TV3!!

23 November 2010
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As some of you will know, I work for TVNZ, so me praising TV3 publicly (and linking to their Ondemand service, he he) are two events which don’t happen every day.

However, the “WAY TO GO TV3!!” is very well deserved in this case. I had lunch with a friend today who was telling me she’d seen a piece on Campbell Live about diabetes last week where they interviewed three type 1s.

I tracked down the video here and as a type 1 it is just soooooo refreshing to watch. The points are made loud and clear – us getting diabetes was unavoidable, not due to lifestyle factors or us eating…

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By Nic on 23 November 2010 at 5.55 pm
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Diabetes in pictures.

22 November 2010
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Did you know that there are loads of diabetes groups on the photo-sharing site Flickr? I had a bit of a peruse the other day and found the great image you see in this post (click on the image to see it in full scale).

Some of the photos are a bit so-so, but some of them are really well done and thought out. To check out a few of the galleries, go here (and maybe you might even have some to add yourself?!):

Diabetes Art

Diabetes Made Visible

Insulin (in particular I love this one)

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By Nic on 22 November 2010 at 9.40 am
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Thursday poll: autoimmune conditions.

18 November 2010
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When I was first diagnosed with T1 (well actually even now when people find out for the first time that I have it) there were a lot of questions around whether diabetes was in my family. I’ve heard differing statistics over the years about what percentage of us actually have diabetes in our genes, but it’s never as high as you might think.

I met up with a couple of other T1s the other day and we all discovered that each of us has a parent with Rheumatoid Arthritis (another autoimmune condition). Which brings me to my poll. (For a long list of autoimmune conditions, have a look here)

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By Nic on 18 November 2010 at 8.02 am
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