Aaron: Beer, bear and bare.

10 December 2010
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Being essentially on holiday, I have found myself doing a lot of things in Canada that normally just wouldn’t be a part of my life in New Zealand.

Generally speaking I’ve been getting a lot more exercise than previously by walking and biking all over the city (no car you see), I’ve been going and doing decent hikes of 4 hours plus at least once every three weeks and I’ve also been drinking a lot more alcohol too to take just three examples.

All of these can be attributed to still being in a tourist mindset and as such, walking around this amazing city with ‘tourist goggles’ on as I like to call it – getting out to a…

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By Aaron on 10 December 2010 at 9.10 am
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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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My latest HbA1c – 45.2%…

16 December 2008
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…well that’s what it will be if I keep up the hullabaloo of this week so far. After hitting a cool 19.9 yesterday from a pump/cannula failure, this morning I got up to 18.0.

I went to bed at midnight, with a steady 5.3. Got up to go to the gym at 5:20am – yaaaay it had gone up to 13.5 without any explanation! I was up and not keen to flag the gym so downed 3 units of insulin and headed to RPM starting at 6am. By 6:20am (about three tracks into the class) I’d gone up to 15.1. I tried one more track in the hope that it had peaked and was on its way down – not…

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By Nic on 16 December 2008 at 7.02 am
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Early shower.

27 November 2008
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I’ve spoken before of my beloved RPM classes (Spin by another name) which I partake in two to three times a week, normally at ungodly times of the morning (starting at 6am, meaning I normally get up at 5:20am to get there and get set up on time).

I genuinely enjoy these adrenalin-filled episodes in my life – however unlike my non-diabetic counterparts they require a lot more planning. First of all I get up at 5:20 and stumble down to the kitchen to check my glucose. Two times out of three I need to either bolster it up a bit with a few carbs, or give myself a bolus to bring it down. Then I drive to class. When…

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By Nic on 27 November 2008 at 6.49 am
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On yer bike.

26 August 2008
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Finally back to the gym today – feels like I’ve been gone a long time!

I’ve always had extra diabetes issues in association with exercise so was anticipating this morning’s RPM class to throw me completely – looks like I might have got away with it this time somehow though – not that I’m complaining!

I’d gone high in the night for the first time really since I went on the pump – my alarm went off at 4am and I did a blood test, returning a 13.0. I took 2u then and got up again at 5.20am to get to the gym in time for a 6am class. At 5.20 I was still 11.8 so took another .75units and…

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By Nic on 26 August 2008 at 7.40 pm
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