Pumping and pumping and pumping.

28 January 2010
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When I got my new pump, Aaron was over and asked me if I was going to give it a name (Aaron and Andy name everything in their lives – their cars, even the different vege plants in their garden – it’s very cute). It hadn’t actually occurred to me prior to that conversation, and given that I’d had a baby about two weeks earlier I found myself a little devoid of ideas.

“Arnie!”, exclaimed my husband. We all spun around to look at him, none of us figuring out why you’d call your insulin pump Arnie.

“Because it’s pumping and pumping and pumping”, he said (in a bad Austrian accent).

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By Nic on 28 January 2010 at 8.37 am
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Guest blog: The new tan line

12 January 2010
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Hi Everyone!

Hopefully you have all had a great break

Every year for our summer break, Andy and I like to head off somewhere remote for a good week or more to relax with some close friends before we have to start thinking about getting back to work and because we don’t have kids, we ALWAYS go camp.

The joys of camping are boundless I reckon. Sunshine, beaches, BBQs, a chillibin full of beer (and insulin), the road trip with it’s compulsory pies and gas station snacks, the music, feet on the dashboard, card games and scrabble. It’s got everything.

This year, we went and plonked ourselves 5 hours north of Auckland in Taupo Bay with another couple who were camping…

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By Aaron on 12 January 2010 at 8.00 am
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The danger in having a pump.

24 November 2008
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I’ve mentioned previously the speed at which your blood sugars start to rise should anything go wrong with your pump, and this alone means you become really rather reliant on your pump to work for you 24/7 in order to keep your diabetes in check.

However – like all electronics – pumps sometimes break down too. This is exactly what happened to me yesterday (Sunday). I’d had a momentary problem at work on the Friday when the pump screen just went blank and the unit started alarming very loudly, but I called the distributors and they told me to clean out the battery area and that should fix it. I did, and it worked.

Then, yesterday the same thing happened.…

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By Nic on 24 November 2008 at 7.52 am
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From 23.9 to 8.1 in two and a half hours.

19 October 2008
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Deary me. Been cruising along rather nicely on the pump of late (I’ve been pumping for over two months now, practically a veteran ). I made it through Japan for two weeks without any major issues (quite a few hypos but I blame that more on the carb guesswork than anything), and through the usual spike at a certain time in the month etc etc.

This afternoon we went to a BBQ round at some friends’ who have a new addition to the family. They asked me how the pump is going and I answered with confidence that it was going brilliantly and I’ve not looked back. Then, about half an hour before lunch I tested my glucose. It had…

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By Nic on 19 October 2008 at 4.43 pm
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Oh, how life has changed (for the better).

16 October 2008
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The last couple of days I’ve been getting up and my BG’s been around 7.7, 7.8 – and I realised this morning that this was making me think I should be able to get it slightly lower. How awesome is that? I used to be rather happy with anything under 10 and now I can be picky and turn my nose up at a high 7! I love my pump!

BTW I didn’t get a chance to meet Alfrey Bloom today as I’d planned – work blew up into a big ball of chaos around 9am (oh yeeeeah). So I’ll hopefully be seeing her next week now and will fill you in on the tidbits I learn from her.

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By Nic on 16 October 2008 at 8.35 pm
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