Grrrr – and breathe.

I’ve just come back from a diabetes check up at my GP’s.

Aaaand breathe.

You see – when I took my son in for his six week vaccinations, they decided to corner me about not having seen the diabetes nurse at the clinic for over a year.

“Ahhhh”, I said. “That would be because I’ve been under the care of the diabetes department at National Women’s for the last 16 months”.

“Well”, they said. “We need you to come in and we’ll go through a checklist of all of your vital tests etc and check that your diabetes is under control”.

Me: “Oh, but you see I’ve been under the strictest care I’ve had in 15…

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I just had to write this post in my lunch break because it’s been distracting me from my work all morning. This comment actually outdoes the colostomy bag comment of 2008 I’m pleased to say (because that comment was made by a very dear friend of mine who was just being dopey and she was as upset about it as I was at the time).

I just met up with a rep from Animas because I’d enquired about looking at some alternative options for infusion sets. We went to a café down the road from my work (which will remain un-named). We were sitting there with our coffees plus a pile of different…

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I know that I’ve just posted something but I can’t not post this!

Someone just asked me if my insulin pump was a pacemaker! I don’t think it beats the time Nic was asked if it was a colostomy bag but it’s up there. I replied with a dignified, “I’m 26 years old, 6′ 2″, 80kg and so no – it is not a pacemaker (even if my H-TRON could do with being pimped out a little).

- Aaron

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If you read this and took a double take, you were right to – unfortunately I still have diabetes and the title of this post is about what other people have been saying to me lately.

I hate to moan, but last night I woke up in the night at 2.4, stumbled downstairs, ate some glucose, got up in the morning with a 15.4 (overdid the glucose I’m thinking) then went to the gym and had to keep an eye on my glucose all the way through class after taking a correction, then tried some new things with my pump (in relation to the exercise) all day, and now at 7pm I’ve taken 12 tests and had one recent hypo…

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I dashed across to the supermarket at lunchtime today (we are lucky to have one just across the road from work) and went straight to the sweets section. You see – I’m getting pretty sick of glucose tablets. They’re good to have in your bag for meetings or for at the gym or places where you need a no fuss, quick sugar hit. But at my desk I reckon I might have a hypo manager which is a little nicer to eat.

Anyway – I’m checking all the backs of the packs to find sweets that are sort of around 5g carb each, and I hear a lady walk up with her friend and say “Oh, now they’ve got sugar…

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