Aaron: The day from hell!

16 March 2010
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You know how some days, nothing goes well and your diabetes is just a right royal pain in the proverbial?

Well, today was the total opposite – here is my day:

Wake at 11.6mmol/L – I’m high (again) and experience tells me that will be the start of a terrible day
Both of my colleagues are away today so I’m doing the work of three people – STRESS
Head out to a meeting at 3pm and realise that I’ve not eaten breakfast or lunch (sorry to all the cringing dietitians out there!) so I hesitantly buy a ft long subway
Meeting done, it’s back to work for an hour of hard graft before heading out to a game of squash which is

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By Aaron on 16 March 2010 at 10.30 pm
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My latest HbA1c – 45.2%…

16 December 2008
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…well that’s what it will be if I keep up the hullabaloo of this week so far. After hitting a cool 19.9 yesterday from a pump/cannula failure, this morning I got up to 18.0.

I went to bed at midnight, with a steady 5.3. Got up to go to the gym at 5:20am – yaaaay it had gone up to 13.5 without any explanation! I was up and not keen to flag the gym so downed 3 units of insulin and headed to RPM starting at 6am. By 6:20am (about three tracks into the class) I’d gone up to 15.1. I tried one more track in the hope that it had peaked and was on its way down – not…

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By Nic on 16 December 2008 at 7.02 am
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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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On yer bike.

26 August 2008
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Finally back to the gym today – feels like I’ve been gone a long time!

I’ve always had extra diabetes issues in association with exercise so was anticipating this morning’s RPM class to throw me completely – looks like I might have got away with it this time somehow though – not that I’m complaining!

I’d gone high in the night for the first time really since I went on the pump – my alarm went off at 4am and I did a blood test, returning a 13.0. I took 2u then and got up again at 5.20am to get to the gym in time for a 6am class. At 5.20 I was still 11.8 so took another .75units and…

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By Nic on 26 August 2008 at 7.40 pm
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dia-Driver

15 July 2008
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So I see someone has been working on a car which reads your blood glucose levels via an under the skin insert and a Bluetooth transmitter, here.

Interesting – but I have a couple of questions:

With the advent and increasing popularity of continuous blood glucose monitors, won’t we be able to have this functionality no matter what car we drive?
Does it stop you from driving if your glucose is too low or high when you start up the car? (a la a drink-driving gauge)
What does this car look like? (I bet it’s uuuug-ly)

Good point to raise though. I…

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By Nic on 15 July 2008 at 1.18 pm
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