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My new baby.

Posted in Diabetes, Pregnancy, tagged , , , on February 10, 2011| 2 Comments »


Hi

Well what a hectic few days we have had !

My wife gave birth to my beautiful daughter Amy on Sunday 6th February 6.16am weighing 8lb 31/2oz both mother and daughter are doing fine. They were released from Hospital Tuesday evening after being in hospital since Friday morning. It was lovely to have them home.

This experience has played havoc with my Blood Sugar as I am sure you can imagine – it has been both high and low due to mainly stress. My Blood Sugar now seems to be back on track which is also a relief. I have also been trying dried Dates as a sugar boost and much to my surprise they work great – each date is approx 5 carbs and they seem to work fairly fast – thanks Annette for the idea.

Please feel free to comment and don’t forget to check out http://www.mypump.co.uk.

Andrew Borrett

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Last week & 40 years with Diabetes.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on January 29, 2011| 1 Comment »


Wow what a long week last week was and we are still awaiting the arrival of our baby daughter who was due last Monday 24th January but still not here. Next week is when my wife has to go into Hospital to be Induced on Wednesday morning so we are a little nervous now. My son Jake is 17 months old and is now getting into everything (Little monkey) but i am sure his sister will sort him out when she arrives ha ha.

I find it really tiring cycling home after a long day at work and I know it’s only 4 miles but when you have been busy all day that’s all you need. The reason I cycle is that I have Retinopathy and have had lots of laser which affected my night vision, this means I am unable to see to drive at night. Fortunately I have a super bright Exposure MaXx-D Mk2 front light which is amazing. The fact that the light is directly in front of me helps me so much and of course I am not cycling fast, I am looking forward to the summer when I can use my little Scooter. I have also been trying to save to buy an electric cycle which look great and would mean I would not burn so many carbs as my BG is always low after getting home from work, they are however expensive.

Thanks for reading and please feel free to comment or just say hi 

Andrew

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Low BG – whats best to help.

Posted in Diabetes, tagged , , , , on January 22, 2011| 10 Comments »


Good morning all.

I am looking for some advice and help please as I am not sure what is available.

I occasionally like all people with Diabetes have low BG and just recently I have been cycling home from work which is 4 miles. This of course burns up lots of Carbohydrates and in turn makes my BG low when I arrive home e.g. 4.0. I do try to have something like a banana before leaving work but this does not seem to be enough, I am looking for something quick and small to eat ?

I am also looking to find out what you eat or drink when you have a low BG as I tend to panic eat and eat sweets. Is there something more suitable that would easily fit in my pocket and work fast ?

Thanks for your time.

Andrew Borrett
My Pump.
My Pump Blog.

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Whats going on ?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on January 21, 2011| 1 Comment »


Hi,

I am sorry it has been a while since my last Blog.

All is well and I am still on the #Animas 2020 #Insulin Pump which is going great and I also use the #Bayer Contour USB Blood Glucose Meter which again is working well. I am also looking at testing a new meter which I will tell you all about as soon as I can.

So what has been going on with me – my baby son Jake is now 17 months old and growing every day, he took his first steps on Christmas Day and is now walking about everywhere as you can imagine, fingers touching everything – GREAT !! My wife is due to give birth to our baby daughter on 24th January so we will certainly be even more busy very soon but I am sure it is all worth it. We now have a #Icandy Pear #Stroller which is superb and can be used as a single or double stroller which will certainly come in handy, it was not cheap but I suppose you get what you pay for.

I am still cycling to work each day which is only 4 miles but certainly does affect my #BG when I get home at night so any ideas would be much appreciated as I have tried having a banana before I leave but still have very low #BG once home. I have heard some cereal bars are quite good but it would need to be something easy to eat which can pop in my bag. I am hoping to get an #electric bike soon which will certainly help a lot but there are so many to choose from and they are not cheap so we shall see. I have also found a great #gadget for my iPhone 4 and cycle which enables you to add the iPhone to your bike and it is totally waterproof so I use a cycle app to measure my exercise so check out Think Biologic iPhone 4 Mount

Anyway that’s it from me and please keep checking out my site.

Kindest regards

Andrew Borrett www.mypump.co.uk

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Hello world!

Posted in Diabetes, tagged , , , , , on January 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »


Hi.

Welcome to my New Blog site My Pump Blog and can I first say thanks for looking.

As you may or may not be aware I currently have another Diabetes Site called www.mypump.co.uk which is going very well indeed and that site was created to share as many useful Diabetes products or products I like with a small review.

I have now decided to try my very best to create a New Blog site to enable us all to chat or leave comments about anything we feel we would like to share with the Diabetes community.

So please do keep coming back and tell as many people with Diabetes as you can about my site.

Thank you so much.

Andrew

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