Lumps and Bumps of Insulin Delivery – Did we take our eye off the ball?
Jayne Lehmann RN CDE The Forum for Injection Technique UK (FIT) published the 3rd edition of its Injection Technique Recommendations in 2015. Since then, the guidelines have underpinned clinical and education practice in this area of diabetes care and education. The assessment of the abdomen or other injection site/s helps to pick-up any lumps and…
Pumping: The Ypsomed Option
Diabetes educator’s love nothing more than an opportunity to get their hands on the latest diabetes technology… so it was off to Sydney last Thursday to play with the new YpsoPump that Ypsomed were launching in Australia. Ypsomed is a Swiss Company, best known in Australia for their My Life Click Fine needles and needle…
BLOG: Reach out to learn and be inspired!
Who doesn’t love the chance to visit another health service for a tour and bit of an explore? It’s like the old school excursion… a chance to move away from the day-to-day to add to the learnings already achieved within their usual classroom environment. I have been lucky enough to do just that as a mentor…
Diabetes and the Year of the Dog – Woof!
In this Year of the Dog, it’s time to have a look at the role of dogs in diabetes research and care. Have you ever heard the story of Marjorie, also known as “dog #33”? Well, she played a big role in the discovery of insulin. Read on for a woofingly good yarn! In 1921,…
From here to arthroscopy!
I know … it’s been a while…. To be completely honest I’ve been putting off writing this blog. We were just getting to know each other … you were so keen for me to succeed … your emails, messages and best wishes really meant a lot to me. OK, so I’m just going to say…
Ballet, beach balls and growing up … a recipe for obesity
Dance was a delight of my childhood. I went to Theaterama ballet school, in the basement of one of our beautiful old Adelaide buildings. After school one day a week I would catch the bus to ballet, returning Saturday mornings for further classes. I studied classical ballet (Chechetti method for the ballet enthusiasts!) modern dance,…
Tales of a Libre Virgin
With a sense of anticipation I moved towards the secret room on the Abbott stand in the morning tea break at the ADS ADEA annual scientific meeting in Perth this week. The sparkling yellow box drew my eye as a nervous laugh broke the awkwardness of the situation. Before I knew it … I was…
Dance. The new black in exercise!
I love to dance. I did a lot of dancing in my youth: modern, classical and pointe. Then there was a brief foray at the dance school my daughters went to, in the adult tap/jazz class some years ago; even appeared in the end of year concert for a couple of years! My promising tap…
And then … an unexpected glitch
Gym sessions were progressing well given I had turned up each day of the weekend for a workout. I was off to a great start to the week, presenting a 2 day Ausmed diabetes conference to update the participants in their diabetes care skills. Consequently I was on my feet all day and on Monday night…
Turning back the clock on me getting diabetes: Gym success = 1+1+1 and turning on a TV!
Gym membership’s in place … now for the hard part … how to fit three gym sessions into my usual busy week. Things started well with the introductory session with personal trainer Christine (refer previous blog). My membership at Goodlife Mitcham has a fantastic feature that enables me to take a friend Friday, Saturday…
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