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A guide to Underpatches

From our own personal experience of having two kids with Type 1 Diabetes,  we’ve often seen reactions to both the... Read More

Medical ID Bands – why wear one?

Medical alert ID Bands are designed to display vital medical information, such as allergies, chronic conditions (e.g., diabetes, epilepsy), medications,... Read More

Hypo – a quick guide

Hypo, hypoglycemia, low blood glucose or low blood sugar. All common terms for those living with Diabetes. In this article... Read More

Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Continuous Glucose Monitoring - or CGM - has hit the headlines recently with the news that all Type 1 Diabetics... Read More

CGM Patches

CGM sensors, patch pumps and cannula sets are vital pieces of equipment for those living with Diabetes. However, unfortunately, for... Read More

Travel and Diabetes

With travel back on the cards, it’s a good time to brush up on what you need to think about... Read More

Diabetes Foot Care

For those of us living with diabetes, foot care is a very important part of our overall diabetes health management... Read More

Myabetic Diabetes Art Show

The Myabetic Diabetes Art Show presented by Medtronic is a virtual gallery event airing exclusively on Myabetic Diabetes TV... Read More

Making an extra 180 decisions a day

People living with type 1 diabetes must make an extra 180 decisions every day compared to the average person –... Read More

Myabetic Diabetes TV

Diabetes lifestyle brand Myabetic has launched a free TV streaming service, Myabetic Diabetes TV. You can watch by searching... Read More

“Mum, can you please give me my needles?”

I haven’t written a blog for a while, years in fact. Plenty has been happening but nothing that had really... Read More

A nod to the humble juice

No story today, just a picture Read More

HI

The meter read ‘HI’– the words Hamish’s Blood Glucose Monitor uses to tell us that his levels are so bad,... Read More

“People with Type 1 Diabetes need insulin to survive”

Since Hamish was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of 4 years we have struggled with how much... Read More

Superhero

We had a package arrive last week and Lyla, our middle daughter, wanted to know what it was for. Fletcher... Read More

We could have lost him

One night last week, we did the usual 11pm BGL test to check that Hamish’s levels were OK. 10.2 was... Read More

Tired or the Diabetes?

Last night we let Hamish stay up a bit so he could keep reading – he had just started Harry... Read More

242 needles in a jar

This was the number of needles we delivered to our local chemist today in our monthly ritual of ‘sharps disposal’.... Read More

The Colour Run!

Hamish ran the 'Colour Run' on Sunday and proved that even a hypo mid way wasn't going to stop him... Read More

Complications

Hamish’s grandfather (or as he calls him, ‘Bampy’) has had Diabetes for almost 30 years. He was originally diagnosed as... Read More

Best HbA1c ever!

It's Thursday and we've had Hamish's best HbA1c result ever so we thought we'd celebrate with a video! Make sure... Read More

Did he eat too much sugar?

A couple of months ago Hamish announced out of the blue that he knew why he wasn’t invited to a... Read More

Our Hero

As Hamish went to the Dawn Service yesterday wearing his Great Grandfather’s war medals it made us think about all Type 1... Read More

Pendulum Swing

It was a beautiful afternoon so we headed down to the beach. Hamish's BGL was 2.7 upon arrival (boo!), then... Read More

Sleep

We saw this quote on a website the other day and the truth of this saying made us both laugh... Read More

Party On, People

Hamish went to an awesome birthday party a couple of weeks ago for one of his best mates Charlie. It... Read More

Bad things

2015 was a bit of a crappy year for us, plenty of personal sadness. We were glad to see the... Read More

#diabeteswontstopme

We haven’t found the need to hashtag before but we figure if we are going to start, this is as... Read More

The Diabetes Ripple

Last week we wrote about Hamish’s diagnosis with Type 1 Diabetes and how in an instant it changed everything. One... Read More

Jumping in with both feet

Well, we’ve made it to blog #2 – and it’s like Pandora’s Box has been opened. When we first talked... Read More