Professional Snowboarder Sean Busby

Diabetes Youth Auckland was extremely lucky to have Sean Busby come speak and speak to some of our youth. Sean is a professional Snowboarder from the US who has Type 1 Diabetes. He came to share his experiences, how he fulfills his personal dreams and how he makes things happen for Diabetic Youth all over [...]

Marty had a “low” day

Of course, I didn’t realise it until dinner time. (Still irritated at myself for that) Yesterday Marty seemed fine when he got of the school bus. (yes, we are still doing dry runs-I start work on Monday- and I have spent way too much time giving the bus company a hard time over one of their [...]

Blood Sugar Whirlwind

Well, I think we have gotten things back under control. The kids have settled in to school and they are a bit more relaxed. Their numbers have started to come back down, but Marty has officially crossed over into a higher ratio. I knew it was going to happen sooner or later, but I was [...]

Day 2-Making the Low Go

We use combination foods. After 12 years we, including Kelsey, don’t like to chase the low and then the high then the low thing. It’s more wasted time and effort than it’s worth. So, we only use foods with protein. Our latest item we use for a really bad low are those breakfast drinks. They are [...]

Kelsey’s Low

I thought I would write about Kelsey’s lows since I brought it up in yesterday’s post about PAWS.  Since moving to NZ, Kelsey has had quite a few lows. I don’t why the move affected her so much, but it did. The first week we couldn’t get her BS up above 70, so we kept [...]