Help our fellow diabetics in Haiti.

16 January 2010
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According to stats, there are 313,000 people in Haiti with diabetes.

Manny of TuDiabetes wrote yesterday:

I asked Ron Raab, President of Insulin for Life (an NGO that receives donations to help people worldwide who cannot afford insulin and diabetes supplies) what was being done to help people with diabetes in Haiti. This is what he replied a few minutes ago:

“We have today sent 2 parcels (1370 mls insulin and strips, meters, lancets, pens, pen needles, syringes) by DHL to Haiti, after talking with them by phone. The supplies should arrive in 4 days.

We have a destination and active senior contacts there. We…

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By Nic on 16 January 2010 at 8.50 am
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Guest Blog: The joys of summer

6 January 2009
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Hello all and welcome back for the new year!!!

I hope that you all had a safe and happy festive season and that we’ll get to hear about some of the things that you all got up to over the coming days and weeks…

It was nose to the grindstone for the second half of December for me at work so I was more than pleased to be able to have two weeks off over the last fortnight. I think I needed it more than I knew and it made me realise the effect that stress has on my BGs (which I actually already knew but had forgotten). We ended up having 9 adults and 8 little ones over at…

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By Aaron on 6 January 2009 at 2.36 pm
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Guest Blog: Reasons to be glad

5 December 2008
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I was talking to my Dad tonight as I do every couple of days and a couple of things struck me.

The first was that in February, around the time of my Dad’s Birthday, I will have been a diabetic for 18 years! It certainly doesn’t feel like that long right now but sometimes I also feel like I can’t remember ever not being a diabetic too.

That then started me off thinking about the days when we didn’t have insulin pens, it took a good 5 minutes to get a BG from the Reflolux S and you counted food in portions not carbohydrates. I have a really vivid memory from when I was about 9, sitting on my Mum…

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By Aaron on 5 December 2008 at 8.48 am
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Aren’t people lovely part II: cakes and plastic cows.

13 November 2008
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This week, my Mum was showing some of the women at her work the latest issue of diabetes magazine, which I have an article published in. The article talks about my experiences with the Dexcom CGMS (see all the posts on this here) and mentions that I’m moving to a pump. Mum’s talked to these women before about the expense of the pump and how I’m still paying it off, and one of her work friends piped up all of a sudden and said “Right – this is what’s going to happen – we’re going to all cobble together and bake lots of cakes and sell them on behalf of your daughter and raise…

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By Nic on 13 November 2008 at 8.06 pm
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11 days til World Diabetes Day.

3 November 2008
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To quote the World Diabetes Day website:

In 2007 and 2008, the theme of World Diabetes Day is Diabetes in Children and Adolescents. Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood. Type 1 diabetes is growing by 3% per year in children and adolescents, and at an alarming 5% per year among pre-school children. It is estimated that 70,000 children under 15 develop type 1 diabetes each year (almost 200 children a day). Currently, an estimated 440,000 children live with type 1 diabetes globally.

I had a look through the website and the best thing I came across was this charity, Life For a Child. I’ve previously been…

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By Nic on 3 November 2008 at 8.28 pm
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