It can be done, girls!

30 November 2008
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I went round to visit a friend of mine today – a type one diabetic friend who in September this year had her first baby.

Now, I can’t speak for anyone but myself – but as a woman of a certain age, whose friends are now starting to have children, I’ve put a bit of thought into how this might be achieved with a chronic condition like diabetes. I’ve done a bit of reading: frankly it sounds bloody hard, unpredictable, high maintenance, risky work. Not only that, but if the scaremongering on the internet is to be believed:

A recent study showed that both types of diabetes greatly increase the risk of complications during pregnancy. The study…

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By Nic on 30 November 2008 at 7.21 pm
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Guest Blog: Escape needed

28 November 2008
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I work in marketing these days and quite often when sitting in strategy sessions for client on various projects we talk about the concept of escaping from the daily grind. For a mother it might just be a case of sitting down with a cup of coffee for 10 minutes, for a guy it might be a fishing trip and for a couple it might be telling your mates that you’re out of the city for the weekend and hole-ing yourself up in your house in secret! The point is, everyone needs a break every now and again and diabetics are no different. Trouble is of course that we don’t get a break from our diabetes so what do you…

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By Aaron on 28 November 2008 at 2.31 pm
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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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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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Guest Blog: Impending doom?

22 November 2008
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We’re hearing a lot in the news at the moment about the spreading and deepening economic crisis and how it is going to effect us all and like most people, I’m not really looking forward experiencing any more food price increases or petrol price hikes. Mind you, there is something that scares me more than all that, which keeps a diabetic like me in his house at 9:30pm on a Saturday night and it’s name……….is Christmas!

I thought that easter was bad enough and remember being the eight year old secretly stuffing down a cadbury cream egg but as an adult, it seems harder to shovel down all the delights of the festive season on December 25 and not have…

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By Aaron on 22 November 2008 at 9.21 pm
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