Guest blog: Sweet confessions.

14 July 2010
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I received this by email from Daniel Howarth, who some of you will know from Auckland DHB. I will be sending my postcard this week and encourage you to do the same. The results will all be collated into a book in due course.

Read on for your instructions….

A big group of young teenagers with diabetes were given a postcard and told they could write anything to, or about their diabetes… obviously there were a few “I eat sweets without my mum knowing” type responses but there was also a huge amount of heart wrenching deep ones…”I think I let my family down so I lie about my blood sugars” and so on…

All of the group responded well…

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By Nic on 14 July 2010 at 8.30 am
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More love.

14 July 2008
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It has to be said – for a busy full time worker like myself it’s not easy getting to Diabetes Auckland to buy anything, even though I work about 15mins’ drive away.

So – big shout outs to my friends at http://www.diabetessupplies.co.nz/ for making my life easy by having a simple-to-use transactional website which I can log onto at lunchtime and order glucose tablets from – which I did today. Last time I did this they arrived on my doorstep merely days afterwards, and if you order more than a hundred bucks’ worth you get the delivery for free.

Which begs the question – why are glucose tablets not…

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By Nic on 14 July 2008 at 1.02 pm
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Nic – negative 720, Diabetes 38.

11 July 2008
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Well I have to admit I’m absolutely gutted. I just got my ‘results’ back from the CGMS and of the 720 possible readings (based on a pulse every five mins over 2.5 days) I should have got, I ended up with a grand total of THIRTY EIGHT.

To try to draw conclusions from this ramshackle collection of readings which at best resembles a madman hitting random numbers on a keyboard is virtually impossible.

In fact I’ve just gone back to see how many blood finger prick tests I took over that very time period and ironically, it also equals 38.

No insights on overnights or exercise to be had here. Move along please!

Not sure of my next moves but…

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By Nic on 11 July 2008 at 6.37 pm
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Liar, liar, pants on fire.

10 July 2008
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Well the grand CGMS trial of July 2008 has come to an abrupt end. After a lot of beeping in the night, then a hard core RPM class (spinning by another name) this morning, I got my twist ties at the ready and prepared for the shower routine in the changing room – only to find that the insertion was 3/4 of the way out. I have to give the unit back to the hospital this afternoon anyway so pulled it all the way out.

The good news is I got up this morning (at 5.20am, ouch) with a BM of 8.9 which is actually pretty good for me (despite the nurse who scolded me on the phone when my…

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By Nic on 10 July 2008 at 7.55 am
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Nic 0, Diabetes 2.

9 July 2008
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Yup, night two of three of my CGMS has been and gone and the high morning blood sugars I have four days out of five are nowhere to be seen. Last night resulted in a 2.30am low (3.1) and a blood sugar of 3.8 on waking. Without the low I’d be very pleased with that night! I have one night left for the overnight highs to come back so we can see what’s going on. Strange to wish for it when I’ve spent the last few weeks wishing for the opposite. But I’m starting to look like the boy who cried wolf.

Aside from that, I’m finding I’m getting used to being attached to a machine. Even after two nights…

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By Nic on 9 July 2008 at 7.25 am
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