Guest Blog: Is that a….?

5 December 2008
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I know that I’ve just posted something but I can’t not post this!

Someone just asked me if my insulin pump was a pacemaker! I don’t think it beats the time Nic was asked if it was a colostomy bag but it’s up there. I replied with a dignified, “I’m 26 years old, 6′ 2″, 80kg and so no – it is not a pacemaker (even if my H-TRON could do with being pimped out a little).

- Aaron

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By Aaron on 5 December 2008 at 9.16 am
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Yay! I don’t have diabetes!

18 November 2008
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If you read this and took a double take, you were right to – unfortunately I still have diabetes and the title of this post is about what other people have been saying to me lately.

I hate to moan, but last night I woke up in the night at 2.4, stumbled downstairs, ate some glucose, got up in the morning with a 15.4 (overdid the glucose I’m thinking) then went to the gym and had to keep an eye on my glucose all the way through class after taking a correction, then tried some new things with my pump (in relation to the exercise) all day, and now at 7pm I’ve taken 12 tests and had one recent hypo…

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By Nic on 18 November 2008 at 6.03 pm
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What’s the point…?

5 November 2008
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I dashed across to the supermarket at lunchtime today (we are lucky to have one just across the road from work) and went straight to the sweets section. You see – I’m getting pretty sick of glucose tablets. They’re good to have in your bag for meetings or for at the gym or places where you need a no fuss, quick sugar hit. But at my desk I reckon I might have a hypo manager which is a little nicer to eat.

Anyway – I’m checking all the backs of the packs to find sweets that are sort of around 5g carb each, and I hear a lady walk up with her friend and say “Oh, now they’ve got sugar…

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By Nic on 5 November 2008 at 6.01 pm
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Oh deary me – so THAT’s what happens.

4 November 2008
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I came across this article recently and while it sounds like a particularly horrible thing to have happen (to summarise: a school nurse injected five teachers with insulin instead of a flu vaccine), it did answer a question I’ve pondered a few times – what happens if a non-diabetic gets injected with insulin?

I guess this answers it – if it’s a small amount, even if it’s intravenous – it will not kill said non-diabetic. I always assumed it would be close. You’d have to eat a pretty big handful of jelly snakes to get yourself out of that one I’m thinking!

(What has sparked this thought before is when people do that little joke with you…

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By Nic on 4 November 2008 at 9.00 pm
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Ice creaaaaam!

2 November 2008
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Ever noticed how one of the first things people say to you when you say you’re diabetic is something like “oh so does that mean you can’t eat sweets and ice cream?”. I used to answer with a ‘yes, that’s right’ just to keep things simple, and also because that’s the sort of thing we were told back in the day when I was diagnosed.

I think most of us who’ve been diagnosed for 10+ years still probably avoid sweet/sugary foods out of pure habit or the guilty feeling we get while eating them, while some of our contemporaries have been schooled from the start that as long as they bolus for the carbs in the food they’re eating, they…

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By Nic on 2 November 2008 at 6.25 pm
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