here<\/a>.)<\/p>\nThree things which I thought were awesome<\/h3>\n
Let’s face it, the whole event was freaking awesome – hopefully Catherine, Peter and Partha know how grateful to them I am – and we are – for the event – but they were some stand-outs for me.<\/p>\n
Three things which I thought were awesome – approachable people<\/h4>\n
Some of the people who attended not only went but made themselves approachable to the masses, and I’ll highlight Karen Addington, Chief Executive of JDRF UK. Let’s not forget that Karen herself lives with Type 1 Diabetes but it was great to see her there, and get the chance to have a good chat. I’ve noticed this before at Diabetes events, that CEOs and Directors of the charities attend and make themselves approachable. I’ll always remember being cheered on cycling up Newlands Corner hill on RideLondon 2015, only to find out later it was one of JDRF’s Directors.
\nAt TAD we could freely have a chat with not only Partha and Catherine, but Bruce Keogh, Jane Cummings and Stephen Dixon too. <\/p>\n
Three things which I thought were awesome – free beer<\/h4>\n
Diabetes UK’s drinks event after TAD had finished was absolutely brilliant and I want to thank them for doing that, they didn’t need to, but it really extended a great thing of the day…being able to talk to each other.
\nIt gave us all another four hours or so or chat with our friends, some old, some new.
\nThanks to Michaela and Sally for organising this and for the D:UK leads for allowing it to happen.<\/p>\n
Three things which I thought were awesome – helping people with Nightscout\/WeAreNotWaiting<\/h4>\n
I’d asked Partha and Catherine if Nightscout could have a stand at TAD, as we did the year before when we were supporting Wes, Nightscout USA’s busiest advocate.
\nWithout hesitation they agreed.
\nNormally HCPs would say no, well let’s face it they can’t officially support something which doesn’t have the backing of clinical trials, and by some is seen as hacking.
\nI understand and expect the ‘no’s’ but it was lovely to have a ‘yes’ and I’m pretty confident I know why they agreed: ultimately they know Nightscout\/OpenAPS\/LOOP make a lot of difference to their patients and they want the best for their patients.
\nUs Nightscouters had travelled far and wide primarily just to be at the stand, yes we wanted to hear the talks but above all us we went to help people.
\nRather than just Nightscout we opted for a #WeAreNotWaiting table and were delighted for Alasdair to join us with his OpenAPS and LOOP kit.
\nWe had 5 Nightscouters and 2 Loopers present and each of us ended up speaking to a good few people, some learned about Nightscout for the first time, some had their nerves about setting it up quashed, many decided to set it all up soon.
\nFor more info about Nightscout, either visit nightscout.info<\/a> or join the Facebook groups: Nightscout UK; CGM in the Cloud; Nightscout for Medtronic.
\nFor more info about creating a DIY artificial pancreas either visit openaps.org<\/a> or join the Facebook group Looped.
\nFor more info on getting your Dexcom G4 data available on a watch or website take a look at this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Either you wish the world would swallow you up or you laugh it off, as you should. Yep, that moment had happened again where Gav (@Diathlete) talks about running from John O’Groats to Land’s End, shows the photo of the support group including me, and then tells everyone he can \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28,95,98],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","tag-events","tag-peer-support","tag-wearenotwaiting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4663,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Either you wish the world would swallow you up or you laugh it off, as you should.