Nic ‘Clumsy’ Reade.

12 March 2010
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I’ve never been particularly graceful (my two years doing jazz dancing at 7 and 8  didn’t really make me elegant unfortunately, perhaps I should have tried ballet).

I’ve spoken before about accidents related to getting my pump cord caught on things, as well as my adoption of a Tubeguard to take the strain of me rushing about.

Tonight, though, I outdid even myself! I was getting my son ready for his bath, and quickly rushed out of his room to get the necessary bits and pieces together. As I brushed past the doorway, the pump cord got caught in the door jamb, and before I could even click what had happened, my…

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By Nic on 12 March 2010 at 6.26 pm
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Return of the night spikes.

11 March 2010
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The great thing about being pregnant most of last year was that the dreaded overnight BG spikes I was struggling with (which lead me to getting on the pump in the first place) disappeared. I’m not sure it was a complete win, because with all of the other pregnancy stuff all of the rest of your blood sugars go haywire… but I have to say – there is something doubly frustrating about going to bed with a perfect BG and waking up in the morning with a sky-high one. It just seems really unfair. During the day if you have a crazy spike you often blame it on food, exercise or stress (rightly or wrongly) – but I just get…

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By Nic on 11 March 2010 at 6.44 am
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Needlewood.

10 March 2010
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I’m a bit short on inspiration today, so when my friends at Skull and Bones put up a name generator for people to re-create the controversial Wellywood sign, this was the best I could do on the T1 front. Any better plays on words you can come up with on the subject of diabetes?

Create yours here:

http://wellywood.skullandbones.co.nz/

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By Nic on 10 March 2010 at 2.50 pm
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Aaron: What’s your weakness?

10 March 2010
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I was reading Nic’s post this weekend called ‘Devil in the Pantry‘ about trying to resist the temptation of eating the jar of Nutella and it got me thinking about what, out of all things that sit in my pantry from time to time I have absolutely no self control over. That is, if it’s there, it’s gone regardless of how much insulin I have to pump in.

This may seem strange but for me the list is…ahem:

Ice-cream cones
Caramello chocolate
Turkish delight
Lemon flavoured glucodin tablets
Rasberry licorice – yum

There are a couple of others on this list of mine too I have to admit but what about you guys?

What items,…

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By Aaron on 10 March 2010 at 9.00 am
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Devil in the pantry.

7 March 2010
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I was shopping at Pak n Save today (yes, it’s all glamour in my world), and heady with the thought of all the savings I was making as opposed to my usual shop at Countdown, I made a spontaneous decision to buy a jar of Nutella. Now – I’m not actually sure I’ve ever had a jar of Nutella in my house, and I can’t for the life of me remember the last time I actually ate it (must have been yeeeears ago, I’m thinking probably on a crepe in Europe somewhere). However, nearly all Nutella enthusiasts I know say they can’t actually have a jar in the pantry, because it’s so addictive they will keep going back and back…

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By Nic on 7 March 2010 at 12.00 pm
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