{"id":3207,"date":"2014-11-14T07:20:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T07:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2014-11-14T07:20:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T07:20:04","slug":"blogaversary-2-on-world-diabetes-day-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/2014\/11\/14\/blogaversary-2-on-world-diabetes-day-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogaversary 2 on World Diabetes Day 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SpinnakerIt’s hard to believe yet another year has gone by in the Diabetes world, here’s a little bit about what’s been going on.<\/p>\n

But first, it’s my blog’s birthday; 2 years old today (well actually yesterday but let’s not worry about that minor fib). Its visits have doubled since the first year’s statistics: I’m pretty darn amazed with that. What really pleases me is that I can see from the stats that people have searched Google and found the answers in my site, that’s kind of why I started it in the first place.<\/p>\n

In December 2013 my daughter Emilia decided to take part in the TrialNet study<\/a> at Bournemouth. It was two long months before we found out her results (and mine) were negative which pleased us, although we were saddened to hear that a friend’s result was positive.<\/p>\n

Christmas and Amy’s Diaversary (29th Dec) came and went and her 6 month old Animas Vibe insulin pump made life easier during the festive period.<\/p>\n

\"AmyEarly in the new year I started my shifts as a national peer supporter for Diabetes UK<\/a>, answering phone calls once a week and helping people find solutions to problems, or giving them ideas from the experiences we’ve had in the family. It’s proved to be really rewarding.<\/p>\n

\"AccuChekInsight1\"<\/a>March was a whirlwind on a particular day, the 15th, which saw us have two back-to-back diabetes events, doing their impressions of buses and policemen (none around, then there’s two). The first was an education day held by the local Type 1 families group Seahawks<\/a> where amongst many other things I got to check out Roche’s latest pump, the Insight<\/a>. It a great event and I was sad to rush away from just after lunch. But rush we must as Amy was doing a sponsored Indoor Skydiving in aid of JDRF along with lots of kids we knew pretty well; she loved it, every minute of it.<\/p>\n

\"dblogweek<\/a>In May I joined in with blog week and I remember how nervous I felt when releasing my poem for Tuesday’s entry: A Childhood All Gone<\/a>. It turns out I needn’t have been so nervous and I think that’s turned out to be my most favourited\/Retweeted\/Liked blog post ever.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"flatline-day\"<\/a>Earlier in March Animas got the green light for use of the Vibe pump with Dexcom CGM for children<\/a>, something we’d be waiting for since June the previous year. One year after getting her pump Amy went live with CGM<\/a> and what an eye-opener that turned out to be.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"twitteravatar\"<\/a>June also saw me cycling 100km around London overnight with a group of friends in the Nightrider charity event, where my local group of 8 raised \u00a32700 for JDRF. On the plus side the training for it and switching to a healthier diet has also seen me shed 1.5 stone. <\/p>\n

My personal highlights for this last year though involve each one of my kids. First Amy spoke in front of hundreds of Paediatric Health Care Professionals<\/a> in a transition chat set up by the wonderful Dr Kar from QA Hospital in Portsmouth. Secondly, it was Emilia’s prom and a combination of pride and tiredness (from Dad-taxi pick ups at 3am) made me quite reflective: The Forgotten Sibling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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