Aaron: The day from hell!

16 March 2010
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You know how some days, nothing goes well and your diabetes is just a right royal pain in the proverbial?

Well, today was the total opposite – here is my day:

Wake at 11.6mmol/L – I’m high (again) and experience tells me that will be the start of a terrible day
Both of my colleagues are away today so I’m doing the work of three people – STRESS
Head out to a meeting at 3pm and realise that I’ve not eaten breakfast or lunch (sorry to all the cringing dietitians out there!) so I hesitantly buy a ft long subway
Meeting done, it’s back to work for an hour of hard graft before heading out to a game of squash which is

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By Aaron on 16 March 2010 at 10.30 pm
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Guest blog: Hospital in a jar

14 January 2010
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I was out for dinner last night and after the meal (and a number of beers) I needed to refill my pump cartridge. Normally, I would always do this at home but I was running late and didn’t have time so I just chucked the stuff in my bag instead and out I went.

Going through the motions as you do, I eventually ended with priming the line with a good couple of units being injected onto my finger since I didn’t want to get it on the table for the next lucky diner. Immediately upon doing this I remembered just how much the smell of insulin really, really reminds me of the smell of a hospital! Maybe it is…

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By Aaron on 14 January 2010 at 9.12 am
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