TL;DR I built Amy a closed loop artificial pancreas She’s been using it for one week so far It’s great After getting into the world of #WeAreNotWaiting and Nightscout, I followed with great interest the progression of OpenAPS, a do-it-yourself closed loop artificial pancreas. I read the posts by …
It’s 5am and I’m awake now for the day after being woken up by my Pebble smartwatch alerting me to Amy being hypo. Game Plan I’m not too bothered about the early start though as my alarm’s due to go off in a few minutes time as part of Amy’s …
I met Lucy and her family about a year ago, at an event organised by the local (South Hampshire area) families support group, Seahawks. We’ve spoken quite a bit, through highs, through lows and one day I offered her the chance to tell her story. Have you already read part …
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 …
Last year’s first ever #GBDOC conference for people with diabetes turned out to be very successful, very popular and very enjoyable, so I was glad to hear Team Blood Glucose were going to run a second one. This year’s conference was set up to be a two-day affair at the …
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 …
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 …
In the last post about PWDC15 I wrote about how I felt about the day and how it all started; in this post I’ll go into the sessions. My main focus would be anything parent or carer related, diet related and teenager related and of course if I could match …
NOTE: xDrip used to be called DexDrip so you might find some references to the old name in this article. I’m slightly jealous at the moment… Andrew Abramowicz wanted to take his xDrip to the next level, so he made another one with inductive charging using the Qi wireless …