…. what fun we had! My only regret was that I couldn’t stay longer than a day and a half.

Camp kicked off for us staff at 10:30am on Sunday. We all worked together to get the last of the set up done, although I can’t take much credit aside from being a gopher… the doctors, nurses, dietitians and assorted bods at Diabetes Auckland had done an absolutely fantastic job of getting everything organised for a week-long camp for 43 9-12 year olds with diabetes.

At 1pm the kids and their parents started to arrive, and we got into the swing of getting them registered. I had the 9 year old kids in my group (see them above) and for…

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Aaron and I are off to camp tomorrow! Quite funny really, everyone I’ve told that I’m going to Diabetes Camp has had a little laugh, before they realised I was going as a volunteer, not as a camper. I think they had imagined oversized, adult me lined up behind all the other kids in my pyjamas getting my last injection before bed, something like Tom Hanks in that film Big.

No – I am going as a volunteer. Unfortunately I can only do 1.5 days as I have a wedding in the afternoon on Monday so have to leave after lunch. Then of course, work calls for the rest of the week. Maybe next year though I’ll be able to…

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Every year as par for the course, everyone in our office gets the option of having their birthday off so this year rather than going to the beach, the movies, dinner and then hanging out in the sunshine of late November I asked my bosses if I could defer my leave till January. I’m off to diabetes camp!

When I was a kid my parents would assign x number of carer support days to the diabetes society or the hospital (I don’t know if they still do that or an equivalent of it these days) who, in turn, would use the money to fund camps and activity weeks via a loophole in the legislation. Me and heaps of other kids,…

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