After buying my eldest daughter an Amazon Echo for Christmas we decided to get one for the kitchen, then I remembered that it was possible to integrate Nightscout into it. Within 30 minutes of starting from scratch I had it all set up, it was good, it worked well. Being …
Okay, I know, it’s really World Diabetes Day but for reasons which will become clear later I’m calling it Global Diabetes Day this year. It’s been in some ways a busy year, in some ways a quiet year, since 2016’s World Diabetes Day blog. It started with Amy and me …
NCS is the National Citizen Service, a four week programme for school leavers which provides a great opportunity for helping people, self improvement, making new friends and most importantly having great fun. In some ways it’s replaced the Duke of Edinburgh scheme as a must-do for teenagers who want to …
If you’re interested in building an xDrip but are worried about soldering all the components and wires together properly then a simpler solution might be to buy an almost ready made xDripKit. It’s simpler to make and get working quicker, but for me personally I’d go for making my own …
Once again the Stupid o’Clock alarm rang again and a quick check of Twitter told me that I wasn’t the only one awake and excited that today was the first ever UK day of TED style talks from people who live with Diabetes. I was going for three reasons. First …
We’ve been using Nightscout on and off for a year now, since I built our xDrip in January 2015. It’s been a brilliant tool and has helped reduce glucose levels, whilst evening them out too and giving us a safety net during the night. It’s availability on any browser, smartphone …
Amy at the Lilly National Paediatric TeamConference in May Another year passes, another 122 insulin pump set changes, another 3500 blood glucose checks, another 2000 carbohydrate guesses and insulin doses and numerous daily Type 1 Diabetes management tasks. I’m no longer feeling the ‘Meh‘ I felt this time last year …
HAPP – from Tim’s blogwww.hypodiabetic.co.uk It was a turn of good fortune that Tim Omer’s presentation to the London Type 1s group fell on the same day as the Medical Technology Awareness Week Reception at Parliament I attended. I was looking forward to this event, it didn’t disappoint. But first: …
Through INPUT Diabetes I got a chance to get to see the Palace of Westminster for the first time AND talk about diabetes tech to anyone prepared to listen. Two birds, one stone, what could have been better. Well actually I attended another great event afterwards too – blog coming …
This weekend saw Jane and I go away for the first time without the kids, celebrating Jane’s 50th birthday with a surprise weekend to Paris. Amy, Emilia and I had been planning this for ages, they were both happy to be left alone, probably happier than I was feeling about …
It hardly seems like a month ago since I wrote last year’s WDD2014 and Blogaversary 2 post but now I reflect it feels like a lifetime ago. Three years on and I’m surprised I’m still blogging, I thought my enthusiasm for this fad would have died out by now and …
This article contains the three presentation videos recorded at Children with Diabetes Friends for Life 2015 at Windsor on November 1st 2015. They are available on the Nightscout UK YouTube channel individually, or as a playlist. Introduction Here’s an uplifting video previewing the Nightscout conferences taking part in the Fall …
You might like to read the article about the morning’s presentation of Nightscout to families at the CWD FFL 2015 conference if you’ve not already done so. Afternoon Presentation/Workshop It seems the afternoon session was the only one actually listed in the FFL programme so we had more people, about …
Building a team for Old Blighty Back in September Wes from the USA based Nightscout Foundation gave me the honour (yep Wes, there’s a ‘u’ in honour 🙂 ) of asking me to join a faculty team they were having at the Children With Diabetes Friends For Life UK conference …
On Tuesday Amy, now 14, started her exchange trip with her school to another school in Germany, somewhere. As a parent I should actually know where she is but I guess I’m a bit more relaxed about this trip than I realised. This blog was meant to be just about …