Watch Campbell Live tonight…

11 November 2008
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…. if you have any less than five people in your family who have diabetes. I’m sure it will make you feel better about your condition! Here is the story he will be telling tonight (in the box on the left).

EDIT: Well that was hardly worth racing home for was it? Surface-skimming journalism at its best. Short interviews with Mum, Dad and the girls – maybe the brother refused to be interviewed or something because he got totally left out of the whole story, bar one brief mention!

For those of you who didn’t see it, the Campbell Live crew went and interviewed the Newlands family (I didn’t catch where they live). The Dad has type one, and all…

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By Nic on 11 November 2008 at 7.47 am
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The run around.

16 July 2008
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A few of you have been asking me recently what’s happening with my journey to a pump. Well, the answer is: not a heck of a lot.

After the collossal failure of the CGMS, I’m sort of in limbo. I am trying not to be cross at the health professional who set me up on it: it was a faulty cable which caused the lack of readings and she pretty much admitted she’d suspected it was on its last legs, and is now going to order a new cable. Why she didn’t think to do a couple of hours’ trial on herself or someone else before she made me wear it and not sleep properly for three nights while…

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By Nic on 16 July 2008 at 8.27 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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