Recipe Friday

Here is another recipe that was submitted to D-Feast Friday. (you can find the recipes by going to Bitter-Sweet Diabetes and clicking on the D-Feast Friday link on the left hand side) This one comes from Sweet Bites. I am personally not a big sweet potato fan, however my family loves them. I was thinking [...]

The Diabetic Duo has been Featured!

Hey will you look at that! Leighann over at D-Mom Blog has featured The Diabetic Duo on her site. Pretty Cool!!! I invite you to read about Renata, and then visit her blog The Diabetic Duo. Not only is she an expat living in New Zealand, but she has two teenagers with type 1 diabetes. [...]

New D-Parent Social Network

There is a new Diabetes Social Network in town, but this one is for D-Parents of Type 1 Kids. http://dmomblog.ning.com/ This site was started by our fellow blogger Leighann from D-Mom. I belong to TuDiabetes and I love that network. It helps me get a better understanding of what life is like to be a diabetic, [...]

DYNZ Conference

This weekend was full of excitement and laughter. There was a lot of smiling and hand shaking and even more introductions of my family. I have to say it was really a nice weekend. We learned a lot about others and just as much about ourselves. I know that sounds odd…but you will understand shortly. [...]

Heading to Rotorua

The family is packing up to head to the Diabetes Youth New Zealand (DYNZ) conference this weekend in Rotorua. This will be our first big diabetes thing since being in NZ. I will be there in several capacities. I have been nominated to the committee of DYNZ as the Region 1 Rep (Auckland and Northland). My [...]

504 Plan on Steriods

I was going to say on Insulin, but that would be corny..right? I was reading Beta Buddies today and this Mom has come up with an amazing plan. I have no idea why some of us other Mom’s haven’t come up with it. She started to think about what would happen if the school was [...]

Product Giveaway

(Open to New Zealand and Australia Only) Register with MedAware during the month of August and your name goes in a drawing to win one of a variety of items. As the winner you will have a choice between any of our organisers, zipps cases and pump paks (to include the splash paks). There is [...]

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 [...]

Adding Psychological Services to Starship

Today I have a guest post by Annie Cody. She working in an effort to get a full time Psych Staff member at Starship to help with all of the D-Children and their families. She is asking for emails showing support of how important this staff member would be to these families. *************************************************************** Hi there [...]

Meet Heidi-Jane James a NZ Athlete (Diabetic Athlete)

This is a copy of an article that was posted in the The Hutt News. The link. Ironman Heidi-Jane James (nee Humphries) has more reason than most to be grumpy about life. The 32-year-old is a Type 1 diabetic and lives with the constant threat of dying if her $7000 insulin pump doesn’t do its [...]

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